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  The commander of Hamas’s Khan Yunis Brigade who was reportedly killed in an IDF strike September 11, 2026. (photo credit: ARAB MEDIA) A Thursday overnight Israeli Air Force strike in Khan Yunis killed the commander of Hamas’s Khan Yunis Brigade, Muhammad Yazouri, the IDF announced on Friday. The IDF stated that, before becoming the commander of the brigade, Yazouri had been Deputy Commander of the Khan Younis Brigade, Commander of the Combat Support Battalion, and Head of the Brigade’s Intelligence Department. The strike targeted a vehicle in the Hamad neighborhood, north of Khan Yunis, after which a residential apartment on the first floor of Tower M caught fire, Arab media reported.

  Incoming commander of the IDF Military Intelligence Shlomi Binder speaks during a replacing ceremony held at the IDF Intelligence Command headquarters in Glilot, August 21, 2024. (photo credit: TOMER NEUBERG/FLASH90) Head of the Military Intelligence Directorate, Maj.-Gen. Shlomi Binder said he did not speak out against Donald Trump's plan for a US takeover of the Gaza Strip and confirmed that he had spoken with Defense Minister Israel Katz on the matter on Friday. "I made it clear that I did not speak out against the Trump plan and that the IDF and I, too, are subordinate to the political echelon and will follow its instructions," he said. "By virtue of my role, I presented the possible implications of the plan, the enemy's view from a security perspective, and recommendations for offensive activity accordingly."

  MOHAMMAD DAHLAN, leader of Fatah’s Democratic Reform faction, has called for Palestinians to put past divisions aside and build a political system in which elections transfer power, and institutions are ‘greater than individuals.’ (photo credit: REUTERS) Fatah Reform Democratic faction leader Mohammed Dahlan rejected allegations made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday night that the exiled Palestinian politician was behind a Haaretz report accusing Netanyahu of ignoring a warning from the United Arab Emirates ahead of the October 7 attack, FRD spokesperson Dimitri Diliani told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday. Netanyahu, who has also announced plans to sue Haaretz for libel in addition to the report’s author, Shlomi Eldar, claimed that Emirati-based Dahlan was behind the “false report.” Dahlan, according to claims published by Likud , “needs a weak left-wing government of Eisenkot, Yair Golan, Lieberman, and the Arab parties” so that he can seize control of the G...

  Defense Minister Israel Katz at Jerusalem City Hall, December 15, 2025. (photo credit: CHAIM GOLDBERG/FLASH90) Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened to set Iran back decades if the Islamic regime attacked Israel in a Rosh Hashanah message to Iranian civilians on Thursday. Katz threatened to attack Iranian energy infrastructure if regime leadership decided to strike Israel.  "Any attack on Israel for any reason and anywhere will be met with a powerful response," he said, "which will inflict severe damage on Iran that it has not yet suffered to this day, including on its central energy facilities , which provide resources and capabilities for the Iranian war and terror system and for harming the citizens of the State of Israel."

  The IDF killed Ismail Ibrahim Darwish Kandil in a strike on September 10, 2026. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT) The IDF killed Ismail Ibrahim Darwish Kandil, a Hamas terrorist who took part in the October 7th massacre, in an air strike in Gaza, the military said on Thursday.   The military said it struck in Gaza's Khan Yunis, where Kandil was planning attacks against IDF troops and working to restore terror infrastructure in Gaza.  Notably, Kandil killed Nahal Brigade Commander Colonel Yonatan Steinberg on the October 7 massacre. 

  Houthi supporters demonstrate in solidarity with Iran, amid a two-week ceasefire between U.S. and Iran, in Sanaa, Yemen, April 10, 2026. (photo credit: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah) The lightning Houthi advance down Yemen's Red Sea coast this week came with direct guidance from Iran's Revolutionary Guards seeking to open a new front in Iran's war with the US, according to Yemeni government, Iranian, and regional sources. By seizing the southwestern port city of Mocha, the Houthis have strengthened their chokehold on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait , a key waterway whose disruption further constricts global energy supplies after Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Six months into the wider regional conflict between the Houthis' Iranian allies and the United States, the group now looks focused on consolidating that grip on the strait even as opposing government forces backed by Saudi Arabia focus on an offensive in the north.

  An Iranian missile is displayed during a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran April 29, 2022. (photo credit: MAJID ASGARIPOUR/WANA (WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY) VIA REUTERS) Iran has resumed producing ballistic missiles from existing components while working in underground facilities, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing officials from the United States and the Middle East. The missiles are being assembled in more limited quantities than before the war, the report added. This is a developing story.