Turkey announces sanctions on Israel, restricting exports * Israel strikes Syrian Army sites after rockets fired at Golan Heights * Gallant briefs Austin on future war planning
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22min agoIDF says recent Khan Younis airstrike killed terrorist who took part in October 7 massacre
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33min agoIDF issues correction after publishing video mistakenly labeled as strike on senior Hezbollah commander
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43min agoIDF says it targeted Syrian Army sites in southern Syria after rocket fire to Golan Heights
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45min agoIDF confirms overnight strike targeting head of Hamas ’emergency committee’ in central Gaza
Hatem al-Ghamri, the head of the Hamas emergency committee in Gaza who was killed in an overnight strike in central Gaza’s Maghazi camp on April 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
IDF soldiers operate inside the Gaza Strip in an undated handout photo cleared for publication on April 9, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
Palestinians buy sweets ahead of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Jerusalem’s Old City on April 8, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli / AFP)
Smoke billows from the area of an Israeli air strike on the southern Lebanese village of Khiam near the border with Israel on April 8, 2024. (Rabih Daher / AFP)
Palestinians walk through the destruction in Khan Younis in the aftermath of fierce battles between Israel and Hamas and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from southern Gaza Strip, Monday, April 8, 2024 (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
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The Times of Israel is liveblogging Tuesday’s events as they happen.
IDF says recent Khan Younis airstrike killed terrorist who took part in October 7 massacre
The IDF says a recent airstrike in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis killed a terrorist who participated in the October 7 onslaught.
Also over the past day, the Israeli Air Force struck several sites belonging to terror groups across the Gaza Strip, including buildings, rocket launch positions, and other infrastructure, according to the IDF.
Among the targets were also a building and tunnel shafts adjacent to a launch site used in a rocket attack on Re’im yesterday, the IDF says.
Meanwhile, the IDF says the Nahal Brigade continues to operate in central Gaza, where it says the troops killed several gunmen over the past day in close-quarters combat.
Additional operatives deemed by the troops to be a threat were killed in airstrikes and sniper fire, the IDF adds.
IDF issues correction after publishing video mistakenly labeled as strike on senior Hezbollah commander
After being contacted by The Times of Israel, the IDF has issued the correct video of a strike in southern Lebanon’s as-Sultaniyah yesterday in which a senior Hezbollah commander was killed.
The original video published by the IDF was of a separate strike on a Hezbollah position in Kafr Kila, and mistakenly labeled as the strike on the commander.
“The incident was investigated and the necessary lessons were learned to prevent future errors,” the IDF says in response to a query.
IDF says it targeted Syrian Army sites in southern Syria after rocket fire to Golan Heights
The IDF overnight targeted sites belonging to the Syrian Army in the town of Mhajjah, in response to rocket fire on the Golan Heights, the military says.
Another Syrian Army post was shelled with artillery, as was the rocket launch site, the IDF adds.
Also overnight, two projectiles were fired from Lebanon at the Misgav Am area, hitting open areas and causing no injuries, the IDF says.
IDF confirms overnight strike targeting head of Hamas ’emergency committee’ in central Gaza
The IDF confirms carrying out a strike in Gaza’s Maghazi camp last night, targeting Hatem al-Ghamri, the head of the so-called emergency committee in the central part of the Strip.
The emergency committee is a Hamas body tasked with maintaining public order and civil control in the Strip’s municipalities.
According to the IDF, al-Ghamri, in addition to being head of the emergency committee in the Central Camps, was also an operative in the Hamas military wing, responsible for rocket fire from the Maghazi area.
Palestinian media reported that at least five people were killed in the strike.
Turkey restricts exports to Israel after it said it was blocked from joining Gaza aid airdrops
Effective immediately, Turkey will impose restrictions on the export of products from 54 different categories to Israel until a ceasefire is declared in Gaza, the Turkish Trade Ministry says.
In a statement following Ankara’s announcement that it would be taking measures after it said Israel rejected its request to take part in an aid airdrop, the ministry says the restrictions would include iron and steel products, construction equipment and products, machines and more.
Turkey, which openly supports the Hamas terror group, has sent tens of thousands of tons of humanitarian aid there since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7.
Tehran unlikely to attack Israel directly, wants proxies to carry out attacks instead – CNN
Iran is unlikely to attack Israel directly and is instead urging its various proxies to launch attacks on Tehran’s behalf, unnamed US intelligence sources tell CNN, contradicting previous assessments by both Washington and Jerusalem that an attack by Iran was “inevitable.”
According to the CNN report, Tehran does not want to significantly escalate the situation as it is concerned about US or Israeli responses to any attack it launches.
Instead, the US intelligence sources allege that Iran has urged its proxies to launch large-scale drone and missile attacks on Israel in the coming days.
UN chief demands Israel allow foreign journalists to enter Gaza, says situation enables ‘false narratives’ to flourish
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for Israel to allow foreign journalists to enter the Gaza Strip, claiming that an “information war” is worsening the impact of the war between Israel and Hamas.
“Denying international journalists entry into Gaza is allowing disinformation and false narratives to flourish,” he writes on X, formerly Twitter.
His statement coincides with a statement from the Foreign Press Association, which assists foreign reporters covering events in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, in which it calls for Israel to allow foreign press to return to enter the Palestinian enclave.
“The barring of independent press access to a war zone for this long is unprecedented for Israel,” the statement reads. “It raises questions about what Israel does not want international journalists to see.”
“The decision whether to be on the ground in Gaza should be up to each individual international media outlet,” FPA adds. “The blanket ban has limited the world’s ability to witness the true cost of the war to all sides.”
In January, the High Court ruled that Israel could continue barring foreign journalists from accessing the Strip, citing ongoing security concerns after months in which only Gazans or correspondents accompanied by the army have been able to report from the enclave.
In their ruling, High Court justices Ruth Ronen, Khaled Kabub, and Daphne Barak-Erez accepted the Defense Ministry’s stance that the escorted tours provided an appropriate measure of press freedom given “extreme security concerns at this time and concrete security threats that go with approving entry permits for independent journalists.”
Israel prepared to strike Iranian nuclear facilities if Tehran launches attack – report
If Iran attacks Israel directly in response to last week’s strike in Damascus, Israel will retaliate by striking targets in Iran, the London-based Elaph News reports.
Citing an unnamed “Western security official,” the report alleges that Israel has been conducting air force drills in recent days that include preparing to target Iranian nuclear facilities and other key infrastructure.
Both Damascus and Tehran blame Israel for last Monday’s raid in which seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were killed, but Israel has not commented on the matter.
Trump: Biden is ‘100% on the Palestinians’ side; I don’t get how Jews vote Democrat
Former US President Donald Trump claims his successor Joe Biden is “100 percent” on the side of the Palestinians.
“Any Jewish person that votes for Biden does not love Israel and frankly, should be spoken to — How a Jewish person can vote for Biden or a Democrat because they are on the side 100% of the Palestinians, and he doesn’t know how to get out of it,” Trump tells the conservative Real America’s Voice network.
“Frankly, it’s incredible that historically Jewish people vote for Democrats. I don’t understand that,” he says, reiterating a point he has begrudgingly made over the past several years.
“I’ve been more pro-Israel than any other president by far with Golan Heights — throw that one in there by the way… nobody even asked for it, and I got that for them,” Trump continues, highlighting his decisions to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move the US embassy there.
“Maybe it’s just a bad habit when you vote for a Democrat, but I don’t know how anybody that is Jewish votes for a Democrat,” he says.
Relatives of American hostages to meet VP Tuesday after sitting down with Sullivan
Relatives of several American hostages being held in Gaza will meet on Tuesday with US Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington, a US official says, confirming reporting in the Axios news site.
The hostage families met with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Monday.
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