Security Updates from Israel

In the North:

Security sources are suggesting that Israel is facing an unavoidable conflict with Hezbollah. While defense officials are still deliberating on the optimal strategy, the IDF is preparing for a large-scale war. The Air Force chief and Northern Command chief are conducting nightly discussions on combat readiness and potential scenarios.

In the South:

The IDF says that about 20 projectiles were launched from Khan Yunis, Gaza toward communities in Israel near the Strip. Some were intercepted, and some fell in southern Israel, with no injuries reported. IDF Artillery is responding by targeting the sources of the fire.

The IDF has announced the death of a soldier who was killed while fighting in Rafah earlier today. He is named as Sgt. Ori Itzchak Hadad, 21 years old, of the Nahal Brigade’s 931st Battalion, from Beersheba.

Friday the IDF announced a soldier was killed while fighting the previous day in the southern Gaza Strip. 19-year-old Sgt. Eyal Shynes from Kibbutz Afik, of the Nahal Brigade’s 931st Battalion was killed in a Hamas sniper attack in the Rafah area.

In the West Bank:

Another soldier of the Nahal Brigade was seriously wounded in the same incident. Some eight others were lightly wounded.

The IDF has announced that 22-year-old soldier, Sgt. First Class Yehuda Geto, a combat driver from Pardes Hanna-Karkur, was killed and another soldier was seriously wounded by a roadside bomb in the West Bank’s Nur Shams refugee camp Monday morning. 

The soldiers were in a Panther armored personnel carrier (APC) when the bomb, using tens of kilograms of explosives, detonated. The explosion disabled the APC, and Geto, the driver, was killed. Amid the rescue, an attempted IDF drone strike failed, and the missile later exploded, killing a Palestinian woman who was nearby when gunmen tried to tamper with it. The incident follows a recent attack in Jenin where a soldier was killed and 16 were injured.

We here at the Israel Daily News send our heart-felt condolences to the families, friends and communities of the young men fallen in battle.