US fears Iron Dome could be overwhelmed in all-out war
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US said to fear Iron Dome could be overwhelmed in all-out war with Hezbollah
By ToI Staff Today, 6:35 am
WSJ says US officials estimate number of living hostages could be as low as 50 * Nukhba force squad commander who invaded Israel on October 7 killed in airstrike in northern Gaza
IDF says drone from Lebanon downed after entering Israeli skies
IDF says 2 rockets fired from Gaza impacted outside kibbutz
Rocket warning sirens sound in Lebanon border towns
Eisenkot: Remaining in government would've been a betrayal of soldiers
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s events as they happen.
IDF says drone from Lebanon downed after entering Israeli skies
A suspected drone that entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon was shot down by air defense over the Upper Galilee a short while ago, the military says.
Sirens had sounded in the communities of Dishon and Malkia due to fears of falling shrapnel following the interception.
IDF says 2 rockets fired from Gaza impacted outside kibbutz
Two rockets launched from the Gaza Strip an hour ago struck open areas near the southern border community of Ein Hashlosha, the military says.
Sirens had sounded in the kibbutz amid the attack.
There are no injuries.
Rocket warning sirens sound in Lebanon border towns
Incoming rocket warning sirens sound in two Israeli communities near the Lebanon border, with anyone there instructed to immediately seek shelter.
Eisenkot: Remaining in government would’ve been a betrayal of soldiers
In his latest television interview since National Unity’s departure from the government, MK Gadi Eisenkot rejects the notion that the centrist party’s decision amounted to a betrayal of Israeli soldiers.
“I think that if I see from up close a mistaken policy and ulterior considerations of the prime minister, and I stay, I would be betraying them,” Eisenkot tells the Kan public broadcaster.
He charges that political factors influenced decision-making on the war, while decrying ministers for leveling accusations against the chiefs of the military and Shin Bet.
“They are not immune from criticism… but at a certain stage you see a guiding hand,” adds Eisenkot, while blaming “Netanyahu’s circle” for this “guided hand.”
“I don’t want to say it was personally the prime minister, but his associates are acting inappropriately,” he says.
During the interview, Eisenkot also jabs at Netanyahu, saying the difference between National Unity leader Benny Gantz and the premier is that “one fought terror his whole life and one who wrote books about.”
Hundreds protest in Paris against antisemitism after rape of 12-year-old Jewish girl
PARIS — Several hundred people protest against antisemitism and “rape culture” in Paris after the gang rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl at the weekend sparked nationwide outrage.
Various anti-racist, rights and feminist groups had called for the demonstration following Saturday’s gang rape.
Dominique Sopo, president of anti-racist group SOS Racisme, says it was “an antisemitic crime that chills our blood.”
Anne-Cecile Mailfert, the president of the Women’s Foundation, says the incident reflected a rise in antisemitism since Hamas’s October 7 attack that started the Gaza war.
But it also highlighted “a rape culture to which young people are more likely to subscribe,” having been “bottle-fed pornography,” she adds.
Ner Sfez, a 24-year-old Jewish woman, says she came to protest a crime “at the intersection of sexism and antisemitism.”
Hundreds had already protested yesterday in Paris and Lyon in central-eastern France after the incident was reported in the news.
GOP senator: Biden slow-walking aid for Israel using ‘bureaucratic sleight-of-hand’
Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas weighs in on the public spat between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden, accusing the latter of slow-walking arms deliveries to Israel through a “bureaucratic sleight-of-hand.”
Noting a shipment of heavy bombs withheld by Biden over concerns about their potential use in Rafah, Cotton charges that the administration has also held up deliveries of fighter jets, tactical vehicles, mortars, tank shells and other munitions by not informing Congress of plans to ship them.
“Your administration can then claim that the weapons are ‘in process’ while never delivering them,” he writes in a letter to Biden, while saying the US president can bypass the need for Congressional approval by asserting emergency powers but is no longer doing so.
“Though your administration reportedly released a ship carrying at least some of these arms on Wednesday, that modest step doesn’t cure the damage done by the delay,” asserts Cotton. “Any delays to military support to Israel blatantly disregard Congress’s bipartisan mandate to supply Israel with all it needs to defeat the Hamas terrorists and other Iranian-backed groups.”
Rocket sirens activated in kibbutz near Gaza border
Incoming rocket sirens sound in Ein Hashlosha, a kibbutz near the border with Gaza.
IDF says fighter jets struck pair of Hezbollah weapons depots in southern Lebanon
Israeli fighter jets struck two Hezbollah weapon depots in southern Lebanon’s Houla and Tallouseh, the military says.
Additional buildings used by the terror group and other infrastructure in Mays al-Jabal, Aitaroun, and Yaroun were also hit, the IDF adds.
Surveillance troops observed ‘highly irregular’ Hamas drill 4 days before Oct. 7 – report
Four days before October 7, surveillance soldiers at the IDF’s Nahal Oz base observed members of Hamas’s Nukhba commando forces taking part in a major drill along the Gaza border, the Kan public broadcaster reports.
According to the report, the “highly irregular” military exercise included the firing of rockets at the same time the Hamas gunmen practiced storming Israeli tanks. But a defense source quoted in the report says commanders dismissed it as “another drill” when alerted by the surveillance troops.
“The IDF is investigating the events of October 7 and what proceeded them. The aim of the investigations is to learn and draw lessons for the continued fighting. The investigations are currently being performed and when they are finished the findings will be transparently presented to the public,” the military says in response.
State Department says Blinken to discuss hostage-ceasefire deal with Netanyahu’s advisers
WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will discuss ongoing work on a deal for a Gaza ceasefire and the release of hostages in a meeting today with Israeli officials, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller says.
Blinken will also discuss the situation along Israel’s border with Lebanon in the meeting with Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, Miller tells reporters.
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By ToI Staff Today, 6:35 am
WSJ says US officials estimate number of living hostages could be as low as 50 * Nukhba force squad commander who invaded Israel on October 7 killed in airstrike in northern Gaza
IDF says drone from Lebanon downed after entering Israeli skies
IDF says 2 rockets fired from Gaza impacted outside kibbutz
Rocket warning sirens sound in Lebanon border towns
Eisenkot: Remaining in government would've been a betrayal of soldiers
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s events as they happen.
IDF says drone from Lebanon downed after entering Israeli skies
A suspected drone that entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon was shot down by air defense over the Upper Galilee a short while ago, the military says.
Sirens had sounded in the communities of Dishon and Malkia due to fears of falling shrapnel following the interception.
IDF says 2 rockets fired from Gaza impacted outside kibbutz
Two rockets launched from the Gaza Strip an hour ago struck open areas near the southern border community of Ein Hashlosha, the military says.
Sirens had sounded in the kibbutz amid the attack.
There are no injuries.
Rocket warning sirens sound in Lebanon border towns
Incoming rocket warning sirens sound in two Israeli communities near the Lebanon border, with anyone there instructed to immediately seek shelter.
Eisenkot: Remaining in government would’ve been a betrayal of soldiers
In his latest television interview since National Unity’s departure from the government, MK Gadi Eisenkot rejects the notion that the centrist party’s decision amounted to a betrayal of Israeli soldiers.
“I think that if I see from up close a mistaken policy and ulterior considerations of the prime minister, and I stay, I would be betraying them,” Eisenkot tells the Kan public broadcaster.
He charges that political factors influenced decision-making on the war, while decrying ministers for leveling accusations against the chiefs of the military and Shin Bet.
“They are not immune from criticism… but at a certain stage you see a guiding hand,” adds Eisenkot, while blaming “Netanyahu’s circle” for this “guided hand.”
“I don’t want to say it was personally the prime minister, but his associates are acting inappropriately,” he says.
During the interview, Eisenkot also jabs at Netanyahu, saying the difference between National Unity leader Benny Gantz and the premier is that “one fought terror his whole life and one who wrote books about.”
Hundreds protest in Paris against antisemitism after rape of 12-year-old Jewish girl
PARIS — Several hundred people protest against antisemitism and “rape culture” in Paris after the gang rape of a 12-year-old Jewish girl at the weekend sparked nationwide outrage.
Various anti-racist, rights and feminist groups had called for the demonstration following Saturday’s gang rape.
Dominique Sopo, president of anti-racist group SOS Racisme, says it was “an antisemitic crime that chills our blood.”
Anne-Cecile Mailfert, the president of the Women’s Foundation, says the incident reflected a rise in antisemitism since Hamas’s October 7 attack that started the Gaza war.
But it also highlighted “a rape culture to which young people are more likely to subscribe,” having been “bottle-fed pornography,” she adds.
Ner Sfez, a 24-year-old Jewish woman, says she came to protest a crime “at the intersection of sexism and antisemitism.”
Hundreds had already protested yesterday in Paris and Lyon in central-eastern France after the incident was reported in the news.
GOP senator: Biden slow-walking aid for Israel using ‘bureaucratic sleight-of-hand’
Republican Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas weighs in on the public spat between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden, accusing the latter of slow-walking arms deliveries to Israel through a “bureaucratic sleight-of-hand.”
Noting a shipment of heavy bombs withheld by Biden over concerns about their potential use in Rafah, Cotton charges that the administration has also held up deliveries of fighter jets, tactical vehicles, mortars, tank shells and other munitions by not informing Congress of plans to ship them.
“Your administration can then claim that the weapons are ‘in process’ while never delivering them,” he writes in a letter to Biden, while saying the US president can bypass the need for Congressional approval by asserting emergency powers but is no longer doing so.
“Though your administration reportedly released a ship carrying at least some of these arms on Wednesday, that modest step doesn’t cure the damage done by the delay,” asserts Cotton. “Any delays to military support to Israel blatantly disregard Congress’s bipartisan mandate to supply Israel with all it needs to defeat the Hamas terrorists and other Iranian-backed groups.”
Rocket sirens activated in kibbutz near Gaza border
Incoming rocket sirens sound in Ein Hashlosha, a kibbutz near the border with Gaza.
IDF says fighter jets struck pair of Hezbollah weapons depots in southern Lebanon
Israeli fighter jets struck two Hezbollah weapon depots in southern Lebanon’s Houla and Tallouseh, the military says.
Additional buildings used by the terror group and other infrastructure in Mays al-Jabal, Aitaroun, and Yaroun were also hit, the IDF adds.
Surveillance troops observed ‘highly irregular’ Hamas drill 4 days before Oct. 7 – report
Four days before October 7, surveillance soldiers at the IDF’s Nahal Oz base observed members of Hamas’s Nukhba commando forces taking part in a major drill along the Gaza border, the Kan public broadcaster reports.
According to the report, the “highly irregular” military exercise included the firing of rockets at the same time the Hamas gunmen practiced storming Israeli tanks. But a defense source quoted in the report says commanders dismissed it as “another drill” when alerted by the surveillance troops.
“The IDF is investigating the events of October 7 and what proceeded them. The aim of the investigations is to learn and draw lessons for the continued fighting. The investigations are currently being performed and when they are finished the findings will be transparently presented to the public,” the military says in response.
State Department says Blinken to discuss hostage-ceasefire deal with Netanyahu’s advisers
WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will discuss ongoing work on a deal for a Gaza ceasefire and the release of hostages in a meeting today with Israeli officials, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller says.
Blinken will also discuss the situation along Israel’s border with Lebanon in the meeting with Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi, Miller tells reporters.
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