[IsraelTimes] The Foreign Ministry says shots were fired at a building near the Israeli consulate in Istanbul.
The shooter was arrested by Turkish police. There are no casualties or damage to the Israeli mission, the Foreign Ministry says.
Earlier today, the ministry said that an “unusual envelope” arrived at the Israeli Embassy in Paris. The envelope was examined and transferred to local security. No one was injured in the incident, the ministry says.
Following the two events, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar tweets that they prove that “terrorism is trying to harm us everywhere.”
[FoxNews] India and Pakistan have traded attacks against one another in recent days
Pakistan's armed forces said they hit back at India, targeting military sites, after India fired missiles at three of its air bases in a frightening escalation between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
India had earlier targeted the three air bases inside Pakistan with missiles, most of which were intercepted, on Saturday, Pakistani military officials said.
The strike marks the latest escalation between the nuclear-armed rivals, a move triggered by a mass shooting that India blames Pakistan for.
In a televised address, Pakistani army spokesman, Lt. Gen. Ahmad Sharif, said the country’s air force assets were safe.
He added that some of the Indian missiles also hit India’s eastern Punjab. There was no immediate comment from India.
"This is a provocation of the highest order," Sharif said.
The missiles targeted Nur Khan air base in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, Murid air base in Chakwal city and Rafiqui air base in the Jhang district of eastern Punjab province, Sharif said.
Some of the missiles landed in Afghanistan, he said.
"I want to give you the shocking news that India fired six ballistic missiles from its city of Adampur," said Sharif. One of the ballistic missiles hit Adampur, the remaining five missiles hit the Indian Punjab area of Amritsar."
Earlier this week, Pakistan shot down more than two dozen drones.
The fraught relationship between the neighboring nations hit a low following an attack at a popular tourist area in India-controlled Kashmir, leaving 26 people dead.
Most of those killed were Hindu tourists. India has blamed Pakistan, which denies any involvement.
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[IsraelTimes] Army says senior PIJ operative Nour Bitawi eliminated in drone strike, was planning imminent attacks
A senior Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... operative who Israeli authorities say was planning imminent terror attacks was killed by troops Friday in the West Bank city of Nablus.
Members of the police’s elite Yamam unit, Shin Bet agents and IDF troops encircled a home in Nablus where Nour Bitawi was holed up, killing him along with another terror operative, the military said.
Bitawi had "advanced significant terror activity, and was involved in guiding, financing and carrying out terror attacks against Israeli citizens and security forces," the IDF, Shin Bet and police said in a joint statement, adding that he also was in contact with Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... officials in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip and abroad.
"Bitawi was responsible for the flow of terror funds to Jenin and the other villages in the area, and in this framework, acted to recruit and arm murderous Moslems to carry out attacks against IDF troops. At the same time, he worked to build bombs and plant them in the Jenin area," the statement said.
The IDF said Bitawi had been wanted for many months and was identified fleeing the Jenin area to Nablus, where he was ultimately located and killed.
The Yamam officers carried out a tactic known as "pressure cooker," which involves escalating the volume of fire against a building to flush suspects out. The officers used an explosive-laden drone to eliminate him inside the building, alongside another operative, according to officials.
A military official described Bitawi as "the number one most wanted" terror operative in the West Bank.
Since late January, the IDF has been carrying out a major offensive in the northern West Bank, dubbed Operation Iron Wall, focusing mainly on the areas of Jenin and Tulkarem.
The offensive followed a spike in West Bank violence since October 7, 2023. Since the Hamas onslaught, troops have arrested some 6,000 wanted Paleostinians across the West Bank, including more than 2,350 affiliated with Hamas.
According to the Paleostinian Authority health ministry, more than 950 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed in that time. The IDF says the vast majority of them were button men killed in exchanges of fire, rioters who clashed with troops, or murderous Moslems carrying out attacks.
During the same period, 51 people, including Israeli security personnel, have been killed in terror attacks in Israel and the West Bank. Another eight members of the security forces were killed in festivities with terror operatives in the West Bank.
On Wednesday, three Israeli soldiers were maimed in attacks carried out by Paleostinians in the northern and southern West Bank.
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says troops shot and detained a Palestinian, who was allegedly planning to carry out a terror attack, during operations in the northern West Bank yesterday.
The suspect, who the IDF says was involved in building explosive devices, was shot by members of the Duvdevan commando unit in his home in the town of Tamun. His condition is not immediately known.
The army says the troops came under fire during the operation, though none were injured.
[IsraelTimes] Army destroyed infrastructure in Gaza after getting intel from men who surrendered
The Israel Defense Forces said Friday that during recent operations in southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ’s Rafah, two Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... operatives surrendered to troops and provided intelligence on a major tunnel in the area, which was then demolished.
The two Hamas terror operatives were captured by soldiers of the 188th Armored Brigade and handed over to the Shin Bet. During their interrogation, the military said the pair provided "significant intelligence, pointing to the location of underground infrastructure in the area."
The tunnel, which was located shortly afterward in Rafah’s Shaboura camp, served "key terrorists" in Hamas, the IDF said.
Combat engineers of the elite Yahalom unit mapped out the tunnel, which spanned around a kilometer and was some 25 meters below ground. The military said the tunnel featured rooms to reside in, a bathroom, a kitchenette, blast doors and several entrance shafts.
The tunnel was then demolished, the army added.
Meanwhile,
...back at the railroad tracks, Little Nell tried to kick her bound feet and scream post the snotty handkerchief Scarface Al had stuff into her mouth... sources close to the Hamas terror group said a delegation held two meetings with Egyptian and Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i mediators in Doha this week but they produced no breakthrough in the search for a Gaza truce.
"Egyptian officials met twice with a high-level Hamas delegation led by [chief negotiator] Khalil al-Hayya [and] Qatari officials on Wednesday and Thursday in Doha," one source told AFP.
A second source said the talks were "serious" but made "no concrete progress."
In addition, dozens of strikes were carried out overnight by the Israeli Air Force against Hamas targets in the Morag Corridor area of southern Gaza, in a joint operation with the 36th Division, the military says.
Elsewhere in Gaza, a drone strike yesterday killed a terror operative who emerged from a tunnel near where ground forces were operating, the army says, and another strike hit a building from which troops came under fire.
Two IDF soldiers killed, six wounded in southern Gaza fighting
[IsraelTimes] Sgt. Yishai Elyakim Urbach, 20, and Staff Sgt. Yam Frid, 21, named as fallen troops; terrorist who took Yaffa Adar hostage killed in airstrike; IAF hits 150 targets in 72 hours
Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed on Thursday, and at least six were wounded in separate incidents amid fighting in the southern Gaza Strip, the military announced.
The soldiers were named Friday morning as Sgt. Yishai Elyakim Urbach, 20, of the Combat Engineering Corps’ 605th Battalion, from Zichron Yaakov, and Staff Sgt. Yam Frid, 21, of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, from Sal’it.
In the first incident, Hamas operatives fired an RPG at a building in Rafah’s Jenina neighborhood, where troops were stationed. The building partially collapsed on the soldiers, killing Urbach and wounding two others, including one seriously and one moderately.
During the second incident, which took place some two hours later in the same area, an armored personnel carrier was hit by an explosive device, killing Frid and wounding four others, including three soldiers — among them two officers — listed in serious condition.
In statements on Telegram, Hamas claimed its operatives ambushed an Israeli 12-man force inside a house in the Tanur neighborhood in the eastern Rafah area (adjacent to Jenina) with two RPGs, and set off an explosive device next to troops nearby.
The incidents brought Israel’s death toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip to 418.
The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza reported nearly 200 dead over the course of the three days.
PALESTINIAN DEPORTED FROM ISRAEL KILLED IN AIRSTRIKE IN GAZA
Additionally, a Palestinian man deported from Israel to Gaza in February was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Rafah, the Arab48 news site reported Thursday.
Basel al-Qur’an, 28, was born in Deir al-Balah but spent his entire adult life in Israel, until he was sent back to the Strip when he completed a prison sentence for traffic violations.
Al-Qur’an’s mother Marwa told the outlet Wednesday that she was notified of her son’s death by one of the people he had been staying with in the Strip. His corpse was taken to Gaza European Hospital in Khan Younis for identification. It was unclear when al-Qur’an was killed.
Al-Qur’an was born to an Arab Israeli mother and an Egyptian father in Gaza. As an adolescent, upon his parents’ divorce, he moved with his mother to Israel, where he spent his entire adult life.
Though his mother, wife and children are Israeli citizens, al-Qur’an was never able to obtain permanent residency or citizenship in Israel due to a 2003 law largely barring Palestinians married to Israeli citizens from naturalization.
Israel plans to resume providing aid to the Strip by using private American security contractors to secure aid distribution hubs within the Strip. According to officials briefed on the plan, five to six thousand vetted representatives will be allowed to travel on foot to the aid hubs once every two weeks in order to pick up a roughly 40-pound box of food for their families.
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[Regnum] The Israeli army (IDF) intercepted a rocket launched from Yemen. This was reported on May 9 by the press service of the Israeli army.
“A missile launched from Yemen was intercepted,” the Telegram channel said.
It is not specified where exactly the interception took place.
Earlier on May 9, the Israeli army press service reported that air raid sirens were sounding in several areas of Israel.
On May 4, Regnum reported that debris from a rocket launched from Yemen fell in the area of Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport. The IDF confirmed that debris fell during an attempt to intercept it. Following the rocket attack, the airport suspended use of its airspace for an hour, after which it resumed accepting and releasing aircraft.
On April 27, the Israeli army also recorded a rocket launch from Yemen. Air defense systems were used to intercept it. The rocket was destroyed before it entered Israeli territory.
[IsraelTimes] Latest attack since Israeli strikes in Yemen and ceasefire between Iran-backed group and US causes no direct damage or injuries; Katz warns Israel will respond
Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels on Friday afternoon fired a ballistic missile at Israel, triggering sirens across central Israel, in the third attack on the country since the Israeli Air Force launched Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s against the Iran-backed group earlier this week.
The Israel Defense Forces reported that the missile was successfully intercepted by air defenses.
There were no reports of injuries or damage caused directly by the attack.
Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that Israel would respond.
"The Houthis continue to launch Iranian missiles at Israel. As we promised, we will respond strongly in Yemen and anywhere else necessary," he said in a statement.
A security source told The Times of Israel that the missile was intercepted by Israel’s Arrow long-range air defense system. The American THAAD system deployed to Israel also engaged the missile but missed, for the second time this week, the source said.
Tel Aviv beach as red alerts sounded during a Houthi ballistic missile attack.
In Friday’s attack, sirens sounded at 4:25 p.m. across central Israel. Preceding the sirens by some three minutes, an early alert warning was issued to a wide area in central Israel, including Jerusalem, alerting civilians of the long-range missile attack via a push notification on their phones.
The new phone alert system, which was recently activated, has faced teething trouble, sometimes not sending alerts or sending out warnings over a wider area than needed and that the sirens cover.
The Friday attack came three days after the US announced that it had reached a ceasefire with the Yemeni terror group.
Houthi officials made clear that the deal, in which they agreed to stop targeting US maritime activity in the Red Sea in exchange for an end to weeks of intense US airstrikes, did not include any agreement to stop firing at Israel or ships linked to the Jewish state.
The attacks came after Israel carried out two days of heavy sorties targeting infrastructure controlled by the Houthis in response to the missile that struck Ben Gurion Airport. The fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... reprisals destroyed the international airport in the capital Sanaa, and caused heavy damage to a port in Hodeida and several power stations and a cement factory, officials said.
The Houthis held their fire when a ceasefire was reached between Israel and Hamas ..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,... in January 2025. By that point, they had fired over 40 ballistic missiles and dozens of attack drones and cruise missiles at Israel, including one that killed a civilian and maimed several others in Tel Aviv in July, prompting Israel’s first strike in Yemen.
Since March 18, when the IDF resumed its offensive against Hamas in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip, the Houthis have launched some 29 ballistic missiles and at least ten drones at Israel.
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