Israel News for 4-17-2024
News Update
The Cabinet reached a unanimous decision that a response to Iran on Iranian soil must occur “in the near future.” The nature and timing of the response is still being debated. Defense Minister Yoav Galant and Minister Benny Gantz want to form a broader regional coalition before acting, while other ministers are advocating for a more immediate response.
Earlier today, Hezbollah launched about 15 rockets at the Meron air control base, located on the top of Mt. Meron, around 5 miles from the Lebanon border. The base contains Iron Dome batteries and is a major defensive control center for the IDF in the Galilee region. A few of the rockets landed in open areas and on the mountainside near the base. Dozens of rockets were fired at the western Galilee. Four missiles and drones fell in the Bedouin village of Arab Al-Aramshe, destroying a community center building and a car and injuring at least 13 people. Hezbollah said that the target of their missile and drone attack was an IDF facility in the village.
The IDF struck multiple Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. The IDF also eliminated Ismail Yusaf Baz, the commander of Hezbollah’s coastal sector, in an airstrike on his car near the town of Ain Ebel in southern Lebanon. Mohammad Hussein Moustafa Shouri, head of the rocket and missile unit in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force for the western sector, was also killed in a different strike. [How much longer can this non-war with Hezbollah continue, with over 100,000 Israelis displaced from their homes in the north?]
During the month of Ramadan, security forces arrested 300 suspected terrorists, including 15 who were on their way to commit terror attacks. Security forces eliminated 10 terrorists in airstrikes. For more, click here.
The Israel Air Force attacked a three-story building in Rafah on Tuesday night, killing seven and wounding several others. An IDF soldier from the Shaldag unit was seriously wounded in a battle in the north of the Gaza Strip yesterday.
For a complete list of the soldiers killed in the Gaza ground offensive, click here.
