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Israel Defence Forces (IDF)

Israel Defence Forces (IDF)
A Tel Aviv-based governmental body, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) is dedicated to defending the State of Israel’s existence, territorial integrity and sovereignty. Its main areas of focus include comprehensive defence operations, counter-terrorism and developing advanced military technology.
Displaced Palestinian children gather to receive food from a charity kitchen in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday. Photo: APA Images/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
Israel

Israel ready to remove Palestinians in Gaza once US approves, minister says

Defence Minister Israel Katz says there is ‘no real solution’ without migration and that Trump’s displacement plan is ‘frozen’.

United States

Israel and Turkey edge towards a dangerous miscalculation over Syria

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Israel-Gaza war

1 killed in Israel’s first Gaza strike in over a week

Israel-Gaza war

Gazans uprooted as Israel expands ‘yellow line’ military zone

Residents and Hamas officials say Israel has moved forward the yellow block markers, triggering new waves of displacement.

Palestinian boys look at a yellow concrete block marking the “yellow zone” under Israeli military control, in Tufah neighbourhood, in Gaza City on Monday. Photo: Reuters
Middle East

Trump vows to help Lebanon pursue peace with Israel

The US president also says he will allow direct flights by US airlines to Lebanon for the first time in over 40 years.

US, Israel war on Iran

‘Immediately stop shooting’: Trump urges Iran and Israel amid tit-for-tat strikes

Fragile April ceasefire collapses as direct tit-for-tat strikes resume on day 100 of the US-Israel war against Iran.

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Middle East

Israel steps up Lebanon strikes to ‘crush’ Hezbollah

Netanyahu pledges to intensify Israeli firepower, citing drone threats since April 17 ceasefire.

A drone with fiber-optic cable attached flies over the border from Lebanon to Israel. Photo: Reuters
US, Israel war on Iran

Will Israel’s use of Iron Dome to aid Arab neighbour recalibrate Mideast defence?

Reported deployment ‘on UAE soil represents a qualitatively different level of trust and coordination’, analyst says.

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Middle East

Israel entrenches hold on south Lebanon, vows to counter threats with ‘full force’

Israel’s military unveils a map of its new southern ‘forward defence line’, days after a ceasefire with Hezbollah took effect.

US, Israel war on Iran

Israel and Lebanon begin 10-day ceasefire as US pushes broader deal

A pause in fighting may help ease tensions with Iran, as Trump eyes a White House meeting between the leaders of Israel and Lebanon.

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US President Donald Trump said he had spoken to both Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun ahead of the truce, adding the pair had agreed to the truce “in order to achieve PEACE”. Photo: AFP
US, Israel war on Iran

After ‘wonderful’ talks with Lebanon, Israel envoy says more dialogue coming

Sides commit to more engagement as Trump urges disarming Hezbollah, but analysts warn a durable Israel-Lebanon deal remains unlikely.

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Israeli air strikes on Lebanon have complicated the fragile ceasefire between the United States and Iran. Photo: AFP
Middle East

Israel’s Netanyahu says ‘war continues’ during visit to southern Lebanon

Lebanon’s PM says he’s working to get Israeli troops out as Hezbollah militants fight back.

Middle East

Israeli bombardment kills infant in Lebanon during father’s funeral

The air strike took place on Wednesday amid hopes that the US-Iran ceasefire would apply to Lebanon, as Israeli strikes killed more than 350.

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Middle East

Israeli strikes kill 11 in Lebanon, Israel announces ‘security buffer’

Israel said it intends ‌to control a ‘security zone’ as deep as 30km into Lebanon and has issued evacuation orders for around 15 per cent of Lebanese territory.

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Smoke and dust from an Israeli airstrike on the streets of the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday. Photo: Xinhua
Israel

Israel sets sights on Lebanon’s Hezbollah sites after blowing up crucial bridges

Lebanon was drawn into the Iran war when Hezbollah launched rockets at Israel to avenge the death of Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

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An Israeli air strike hits a bridge over the Litani River in Qasmiyeh, southern Lebanon, on March 22. Photo: Xinhua
Israel-Gaza war

Israel approves death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis

The law makes the death penalty – by hanging – the default punishment for West Bank Palestinians convicted for nationalistic killings.

Israel

Israel suspends military unit that assaulted CNN crew in West Bank

It suspended the Netzah Yehuda, a unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers that has been linked to abuses of Palestinian civilians in the past.

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Israel-Gaza war

Netanyahu says Israel will widen its invasion of southern Lebanon

The PM said Israel would expand what he called the ‘existing security strip’ in Lebanon as Israeli forces continue to target Hezbollah.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: Reuters
Middle East

Israel’s military to occupy swathe of southern Lebanon amid widening war

Israel plans to hold south Lebanon up to the Litani River, but Hezbollah vows to resist occupation.

Singapore

Singapore says involvement in Israeli military-linked groups ‘not acceptable’

The government warned that volunteering with organisations like Sar-El could lead to legal action.

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Middle East

Israel pounds south Beirut, says captured Hezbollah fighters

Israel expands Lebanon assault as it fights Hezbollah in a spillover of the Iran war.

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Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli strike in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs. Photo: AP
Middle East

Israel says investigating whether own soldiers shot civilian on Lebanon border

Hezbollah had earlier claimed a rocket that killed one Israeli in the same area, among a series of attacks the group claimed on Sunday.

Smoke rises from the Lebanese border town of Al Khayam, Lebanon on Sunday. Photo: EPA-EFE
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)

Damage to Iran’s cultural and historical sites adds to costs of war

Since the US and Israeli strikes, Unesco is tracking damage to protected landmarks in Iran, as well as heritage sites in Lebanon and Israel.

Israel-Iran conflict

Police arrest 12 as hundreds join banned pro-Palestinian march in London

Interior Minister Shabana Mahmood agreed to ban the march after police said it was organised by a group ‘supportive of the Iranian regime’.

Israel-Gaza war

Gaza’s Rafah crossing to open on Wednesday ‘for limited movement of people’

Move comes as 13 people were killed – including children, a pregnant woman and police officers – in Israeli strikes in Gaza on Sunday.

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Egyptian ambulances go through the Rafah border crossing on the Egyptian side in Rafah, Egypt on February 10. On Sunday, Israel said the crossing will ​open on Wednesday for limited movement of people in both directions. Photo: Reuters
US, Israel war on Iran

Nearly 500 dead in Lebanon from Israeli offensive against Hezbollah

As the death toll rises by 100 a day, the Lebanese president proposes a truce with Israel, saying Hezbollah is pushing Lebanon into ‘chaos’.

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Members of the Lebanese Civil Defence inspect a damaged building after an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs. Photo: Reuters
US, Israel war on Iran

Israeli jets hit Iran leaders’ bunker, Trump demands ‘unconditional surrender’

Washington expects achievable US objectives to be completed in four to six ‌weeks, the White House says.

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US, Israel war on Iran

Opinion | Attack on Iran normalises global descent into the ‘law of the jungle’

By waging war under the logic of pre-emptive defence, the US and Israel are hollowing out the foundations of international law.

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