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Our plans for this weekend:
✅ Defending Israel
✅ Spending time with the squad
✅ Ensuring our civilians have a peaceful Shabbat
What are yours?
📸: @ShemeshOri
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IDF, ISA & “Yamam” police forces apprehended the terrorists who carried out the deadly terror attack in Arie’l last night, killing one person. We also confiscated the weapons they used in the attack.
We will continue to operate against terrorism.
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In response to the rockets launched from Gaza into Israel tonight, we targeted a Hamas underground site in Gaza used as a rocket development & manufacturing complex.
We hold Hamas responsible for all terrorist activity emanating from Gaza.
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Terrorists in Gaza just fired 1 rocket into Israel.
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The Golani Brigade was the first brigade in the IDF, that’s why it’s numbered as the 1st brigade.
These Golani soldiers just received their hard-earned berets after a long beret march.
We salute our new Golani soldiers 🫡
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Armed Palestinian assailants are currently firing at IDF and Border Police troops conducting counterterrorism activities in the city of Jenin. In response, our soldiers are firing toward the armed assailants.
This M-16 rifle used by one of the assailants has been confiscated:
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Before she was a world renowned sex therapist, Holocaust survivor @AskDrRuth was a sniper in the Hagana, a pre-IDF defense organization! Pretty amazing right!?
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A terrorist arrived at the entrance gate of the Ariel Industrial Zone and stabbed civilians in the area.
Other civilians were stabbed at a nearby gas station.
The terrorist fled the scene and was neutralized afterwards. IDF soldiers are currently searching the area.
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WATCH: The @UN Security Council passed Resolution 1701 in 2006 to stabilize the Israel-Lebanon border.
Now, Lt. Col. Amnon Shefler and Maj. Ben Wallhaus are here to explain its significance and how Hezbollah has since continued to violate international law.
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The IDF targeted a rocket launch squad and a mortar shell launcher in the northern Gaza Strip
Since 6AM to 3PM, approximately 60 rockets were launched from Gaza towards Israel. Approximately 10 rockets were intercepted
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Introducing our next generation of naval officers.
This class of the elite Israeli Naval Academy made history with the highest-ever number of graduating female officers 💪
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Shabbat Shalom from our eye in the sky.
@IAFsite Black Hawk helicopters soaring over Mt. Hermon in northern Israel as part of a recent operational exercise
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Maj. Ofek Aharon, age 28.
Maj. Itamar Elharar, age 26 and married.
These are the Egoz Unit company commanders that were misidentified & mistakenly killed by IDF fire during a security patrol last night.
May their memories be a blessing.
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As fireworks lit up the skies to celebrate #NewYear2022 around the world, a different type of fire came from Gaza—terrorist rocket-fire toward Israel.
In response, we just struck Hamas sites in Gaza, incl. a rocket manufacturing site & military posts used for terrorist activity.
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🚨3:00AM, ISRAEL: Sirens sounded in the city of Ashkelon and the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. Details to follow.
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A stabbing attack was just reported at the Gush Etzion Junction, south of Bethlehem.
The assailant has been neutralized. More details to follow.
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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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When we posted this video on Facebook, Facebook flagged it, but kept it up "because it may help rescue the child."
Indeed the children of Gaza should be rescued from the brutal regime of Hamas.
#StopHamas
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This is what a week in the Israeli Navy looks like
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Since the previous update, 14 mortar shells have been launched from Gaza towards Israel (31 overall since last night). The IDF's Iron Dome intercepted one launch (six overall since last night)
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In response to the rocket launch from Gaza into Israel earlier today, IDF fighter jets struck a production site for raw chemical material production, along with a weapon manufacturing site belonging to the Hamas Terrorist Organization. 1/2
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Our troops downed a drone that crossed from Lebanon into Israeli airspace earlier today. The drone was monitored by our troops throughout the incident.
We will continue to operate in order to prevent any attempt to violate Israeli sovereignty.
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Last night, the IDF tracked 7 armed suspects identified as terrorists most likely affiliated with ISIS. Their movements were tracked in the southern Golan Heights near the area of the triangle of Israel, Jordan, and the DMZ of Syria. An IDF aircraft struck the 7 terrorists
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