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On this United Nations Day, the IDF wishes a happy and sincere 76th birthday to the @UN. Thank you for promoting universal values of peace, equality and dignity and for your engagement in the Middle East.
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RIGHT NOW: A mob of approx 20K Gazans are burning tires, throwing bombs and grenades, and attempting to break through the border fence with Israel, which 10 armed terrorists did, until we stopped them. In response, an IDF aircraft carried out two strikes in Gaza.
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History in the making!
Congratulations to BG Naama Rosen-Grimberg on becoming the first ever woman to take on the role of Military Secretary to the President of Israel.
BG Rosen-Grimberg will become the third woman on the General Staff forum—the largest number to date.
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@TelegraphNews You’re right, they caught us 😂😂
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Mazal tov to MG Orli Markman—the 1st woman to serve as President of the IDF’s Military Court of Appeals.
On receiving her rank of Major General today, she invoked the words of Israel's 1st Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion: "The main weapon of the army is its moral strength."
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That feeling when Shabbat begins 🕯️🌅
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The last 13 hours in Israel.
Each of these alerts means an air raid siren sounded, signalling an incoming rocket from Gaza. Each of these alerts also meant that the people living in the area under attack from Gaza only had a few seconds to run for cover. #IsraelUnderAttack
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These 3 women, identified terrorists in Gaza attempting to shoot rockets at Israeli civilans and stopped them! 💪 twitter.com/IsraeliPM/stat…
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“Lebanon is in the process of collapsing—a collapse Hezbollah has helped cause. But we do not intend to allow, as a result of this collapse, the rocket fire that happened this morning.”
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🔺600+ rockets have been fired from Gaza at Israel. IDF struck an additional 40 terror targets in Gaza, including:
• observation control rooms
• terror tunnels
• weapon storage facilities
• rocket launch sites
As of this hour, approx. 320 terror sites have been struck.
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LTG Aviv Kohavi met with the Commander of @CENTCOM, Gen. McKenzie, & other senior members.
"Our operational cooperation with the US military has reached an unprecedented level & the issues agreed upon during my visit will help elevate our cooperation capabilities."
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Israeli & Palestinian medical teams are cooperating to combat #COVID19.
Hundreds of coronavirus testing kits have already been delivered by #Israel to the Palestinian Territories & #Gaza.
Here’s the full story from @cogatonline:
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“The Jewish people now have a force against those who revile and threaten them, one they did not possess back then..." Colonel Itamar Ben-Haim, Commander of the Judea Regional Brigade in an op-ed in honor of #HolocaustRemembranceDay
blogs.timesofisrael.com/act-so-that-yo…
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Israeli Air Force & @usairforce F-35 fighter jets flew side-by-side in the "Enduring Lightning 3" exercise this Monday.
While following #COVID19 protocols, we trained to deal with various strategic aerial & ground threats and strengthened the 🇮🇱🇺🇸 partnership.
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We can confirm that the attack which the IDF thwarted on March 2, 2020 was planned by Hezbollah operatives in cooperation with Syrian Arab Armed Forces (SAAF) from within a SAAF military compound located in the demilitarized buffer zone in the Golan Heights.
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Today, explosive devices were hurled from the Gaza Strip at Israel’s border fence.
In response, an IDF aircraft targeted a Hamas military post in the northern Gaza Strip.
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In accordance with a recently conducted situational assessment, we have decided to reinforce the Northern Command with select infantry forces.
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WATCH: This what it looks like inside a cross-border attack tunnel dug by Hezbollah from #Lebanon into #Israel exposed by our soldiers during Operation #NorthernShield.
@CNN’s @ianjameslee takes a closer look
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Under the water, under the radar. The elite YALTAM unit specializes in top-secret diving missions to keep Israel's seas and ports safe from any threat.
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Good afternoon @UNGeneva, @UN_HRC, @SantiagoACanton. We hope you had a nice weekend. If you had spent it here in Israel, it would have looked like this:
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LTG Aviv Kohavi, IDF Chief of General Staff:
"Baha Abu Al Ata was the senior commander of Islamic Jihad in Gaza, responsible for most attacks emanating from Gaza over the last year...he was a ticking time-bomb...there was a window of opportunity that we utilized precisely."
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The IDF protects Israeli civilians 24/7, 365 days a year.
Shabbat Shalom from our soldiers in the field!
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Following the continuous rocket fire from Gaza, we targeted a terrorist in the northern Gaza Strip.
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