Gaza War

Sgt. Agam Naim, a 20-year-old paramedic from Kibbutz Mishmarot, became the first female soldier to fall in combat in Gaza since Israel launched its ground campaign following Oct. 7.

The New Tolerance Campaign says the initiative is designed to be a "wake-up call" to groups like "Queers for Palestine" that have emerged since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

The incident took place in the Rafah area in the southern part of the strip. The names of the KIAs, are as followed: First Major Dotan Shimon, from Elazar; First Major Agam Naim, from Mishmarot; First Major Amit Bakri from Yoshvia; and Captain Daniel Mimon Toaff, from Moreshet.

"The Security Cabinet has updated the objectives of the war to include the following: Returning the residents of the north securely to their homes. Israel will continue to act to implement this objective," the Prime Minister's Office said on X. 

According to the WSJ, the system, which relies heavily on handwritten notes and a network of couriers, has frustrated Israeli attempts to track and target the mastermind behind the October 7 attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and sparked the ongoing war in Gaza.

The announcement – shared with the families of Ron Sherman, Nick Beizer, and Elia Toledano – comes months after a preliminary pathological examination could not conclusively determine the cause of death for two of the hostages.

Freed after 49 days, Adina Moshe shares harrowing new details of underground captivity and interactions with Israeli hostages Yarden Bibas and Ofer Calderon, still held in Gaza.

The force would aim to create a buffer between northern and southern Gaza, aligning with potential scenarios for an Israeli military drawdown.

Brigadier General Yossi Sariel, the chief of Israel's famed SIGINT unit, notes that he failed to sound the alarm about Oct. 7 despite gathering valuable data and sharing it. He is the third senior IDF officer to step down over the past year since the start of the war.

The helicopter crashed during an attempted rescue mission, resulting in eight soldiers injured, one in critical condition.