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A barrage of some 10 rockets were launched from the northern Gaza Strip at the Ashkelon area, according to the IDF.

The military says five rockets were intercepted, and the others struck open areas.

There are no reports of injuries or damage.
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The military provides updates on the fighting against Hamas in southern Gaza's Rafah, where the 162nd Division is operating.

The division's 401st Armored Brigade has been raiding sites in the area, from which Hamas gunmen opened fire, the military says.

The tank forces have killed more than 50 terror operatives in the area, and demolished some 100 sites, including rocket launchers, according to the IDF. The troops also located more than 10 tunnel shafts, it adds.

Meanwhile the Givati Infantry Brigade, operating in the same area, has killed more than 80 terror operatives, the IDF says. The Givati troops also located tunnel networks in eastern Rafah, the military adds.
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Israeli fighter jets struck additional Hezbollah buildings and infrastructure in southern Lebanon's Ayta ash-Shab, Odaisseh, Aitaroun, and Ramyeh earlier today, the military says.

The IDF also says that one explosive-laden drone launched from Lebanon earlier struck an area near the border community of Yiftah, causing no injuries.

Other incidents of sirens warning of incoming drones have ended without damage or injuries, the IDF adds.

Several rockets were also fired from Lebanon at northern Israel today, causing no injuries, according to the military.

Hezbollah has claimed for 10 rocket, missile, and drone attacks on the border today.
The Israeli military is calling on Palestinians in additional neighborhoods of northern Gaza to evacuate the area, as it presses on with its operation against Hamas in Jabaliya.

Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, the IDF's Arabic-language spokesman, publishes a list of the new zones that need to be evacuated alongside the announcement.

Last weekend, the IDF issued an evacuation warning for Jabaliya, before it pushed into the area. It has since twice expanded the evacuation zone, and the latest announcement includes the al-Atatra and al-Karama areas on the coast.

Palestinian civilians are told to move to shelters west of Gaza City.

The IDF operation against Hamas in Jabaliya was launched after it identified terror operatives regrouping there.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari will give a press conference in a few minutes.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari in a press conference says the military recovered the body of an additional hostage from the Gaza Strip, after yesterday he announced that three slain captives were returned in a special mission.

The hostage is named as 53-year-old Ron Benjamin, who was abducted by Hamas on the morning of October 7.

Hagari says Benjamin was killed by Hamas terrorists on October 7 near Mefalsim, and his body was taken hostage to Gaza.

His body was recovered alongside Itzhak Gelerenter, Amit Buskila, and Shani Louk in the Thursday night operation, Hagari says.
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Drone footage released by the Israeli military shows soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade killing two Palestinian gunmen on a rooftop in northern Gaza's Jabaliya.

According to the IDF, the paratroopers have killed dozens of terror operatives during fierce clashes in the "heart of Jabaliya," in neighborhoods that the military did not operate in previously.

The IDF says the two gunmen seen in the clip had first engaged in a gun battle with troops inside the building, before fleeing to the rooftop. The paratroopers encircled the building and killed the pair.

No soldiers were hurt in the incident, according to the military.
One rocket was launched from the central Gaza Strip at the southern coastal city of Ashkelon a short while ago, the IDF says.

According to the military, the rocket fell in the sea near Ashkelon, causing no damage or injuries.

Sirens had sounded in the city.
The IDF announces the deaths of two soldiers killed during fighting in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday.

The slain troops are named as Staff Sgt. Nachman Meir Haim Vaknin, 20, from Eilat and Staff Sgt. Noam Bittan, 20, from Yad Rambam.

The pair served in the Givati Brigade's reconnaissance unit.

Vaknin and Bittan were killed and another two soldiers and an officer of the Givati reconnaissance unit were seriously wounded as a result of a blast in a booby-trapped tunnel shaft in the Rafah area.

Their deaths bring the toll of slain troops in the IDF's ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in operations on the border to 282.

In a separate incident, a reservist of the 5832nd Combat Engineering Battalion was seriously wounded in Rafah after his D9 armored bulldozer was hit by an RPG.
One rocket launched from the northern Gaza Strip at the southern city of Sderot a short while ago was intercepted by the Iron Dome, the military says.

There are no reports of damage or injuries.
Border Police officers shot a Palestinian who allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack at a checkpoint near the West Bank town of Abu Dis, on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

According to police, the suspect arrived at the so-called Kiosk Checkpoint near Abu Dis, drew a knife, and tried to stab officers there.

Border Police officers operating at the checkpoint returned fire, "neutralizing" the suspect, police say.

There are no other injuries in the incident.
Police update and say the Palestinian suspect who attempted to carry out a stabbing attack at a checkpoint near Abu Dis was armed with a "sharp object," apparently a screwdriver.

The suspect drew the object and ran toward the officers while shouting "allahu akbar" (God is great), before being shot, police say.
Troops operating in northern Gaza's Jabaliya have discovered several caches of weapons, including assault rifles, mortars, and drones, the military says.

The IDF says troops also discovered rocket launchers and a weapons manufacturing site in the area.

Also in Jabaliya, the military says troops of the 636th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit spotted a cell armed with RPGs, and directed an airstrike against them.

The fighting in "the heart of Jabaliya" is being led by the 7th Armored Brigade, with the IDF saying the tank forces are engaged in "intense" battles with Hamas in the area.
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A senior Hamas operative in the terror group's supply unit was killed in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip yesterday, the military says.

According to the IDF, Azmi Abu Daqqa was involved in smuggling weapons and funds for Hamas in Gaza.

He was killed in an airstrike following intelligence provided by the Military Intelligence Directorate, the IDF says.

Dozens more Hamas targets were hit across Gaza over the past day, including two "tactical-level" commanders, who were preparing to attack Israeli forces in the Rafah area, the military adds.
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