A Gaza airstrike killed five, including aid workers. IDF launched an investigation. World Central Kitchen condemns, Australia seeks verification.

The IDF believes that despite the terrorists’ return to Shifa after the first IDF takeover in November, that this recent operation was the most single damaging operation to Hamas of the war.

As Israel evaluates its military strategy in Rafah in light of growing international pressure, US officials considers the implications of an arms deal to Israel, yet is likely to approve the sale.

Protests in Tel Aviv turned violent, with clashes, road blockages, and police using sound-wave systems by accident.

"Zahedi was a very senior person who can be said to have given Israel a lot of headaches in the last twenty years for all his exploits in his involvement in terrorism," Hezi Simantov said.

The Wall Street Journal termed the killing of Zahedi “the first real price” that Iran has paid “for its proxy warfare in the Middle East.”

The decision comes two years after a prior unheeded attempt to ban the antisemitic Iran-backed Shi’i movement, whose infamous slogan calls, among other things, for 'a curse upon the Jews.'

Former IDF intelligence chief Tamir Hayman gave an account of the shifting conceptual process of Gaza Hamas Chief Yahya Sinwar.