ISRAEL REALTIME - "Connecting the World to Israel in Realtime"
🔻ROCKETS from LEBANON… short range, Margaliot.
🔻ROCKETS from GAZA… short range, Sderot and surrounds.
▪️FUEL AID… the Political-Security Cabinet approved the War Cabinet's recommendation to allow the minimal addition of fuel necessary to prevent a humanitarian collapse (although per our previous report, fuel aid is NOT making it to those in need or the hospitals but is “disappearing”). Finance Minister Smotrich and Security Minister Ben Gvir objected - voted against.
▪️2 HERO SOLDIERS FALL.. in the fight in Gaza, bringing the toll of the ground offensive to 86.
▪️EGYPT REINFORCES THE BORDER AGAINST GAZANS… Gaza sources: The Egyptians are constructing a third fence on the border with the Gaza Strip to prevent the possibility of Gazans breaking through the fences and entering Sinai territory.
▪️SAMARIA… Tulkarm, heavy IDF bulldozer activity in checking roads for IEDs. Firefights. Shechem (Nablus), firefight, arrests, one enemy car caught fire.
▪️THREATS TO LEBANON… The Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Akhbar newspaper notes this morning that the US and France are issuing threats to Hezbollah and Lebanon, according to which the two choices they face are: Withdrawal of Hezbollah forces (out of South Lebanon) or war. The Lebanese News Agency states that Israel has sent a "dangerous threat" to Lebanon.
Various reports from enemy media that the US, France, UAE, Saudi Arabia are pushing a plan for Hezbollah to get out of southern Lebanon and UNIFIL and the Lebanese army to be empowered, in exchange for Israel's withdrawal from Sheba'a Farms, Kfarchouba and the village of Ghajar.
The head of the Upper Galilee Regional Council Zaltz, to Defense Minister Galant: “(this) brings Hezbollah and its host Iran to a sense of success. He and we know that there is no meaning to an international agreement. How do we know if Hezbollah will comply with the agreement - shall we wait for the next 'October 7'?"
▪️HOW HAMAS FOOLED ISRAEL… The Washington Post: This is how Hamas tried to "put Israel to sleep". Hamas refrained from firing at Israel after the "Guardian of the Walls" operation, and presented the impression that it was interested in calm. Hamas officials provided intelligence on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (a competitor of Hamas in Gaza) to reinforce the impression that the organization was interested in peace and cooperation.
▪️CHABAD OF GAZA? Chabad Chasidic soldiers, students of the Chabad Yeshiva Chazon Eliyahu in Tel Aviv established the first Chabad house in Beit Hanon in the north of the Gaza Strip. The Chabad House will operate in a special emergency format, and will spread joy and Judaism to all soldiers during the Hanukkah holiday and after, until the final victory.