Israel

01 November 2023; MEMO: The Israeli military has said that it has deployed missile boats in the Red Sea a day after Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement revealed that it had launched missile and drone attacks on Israel and vowed to carry out more. Images disseminated by the Israelis showed Saar-class corvettes patrolling near Eilat port in the Red Sea.

Israel sees this as a new front as its war in Gaza draws retaliation from Iran-aligned, pro-Hamas forces elsewhere in the region.

TEL AVIV, October 31. /TASS/: At least 240 hostages are now being held in Gaza, Israel Defense Forces Spokesman Daniel Hagari said, citing the latest data.

"We have notified the families of the 240 hostages," he said at a news conference.

Hagari also said that 315 Israeli soldiers have been killed since fighting began on Oct. 7.

30 October 2023; MEMO: Israel’s Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency has expressed its concerns to the government about the surge in settler violence against the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the start of the current conflict on 7 October.

According to Channel 12, the head of Shin Bet, Ronen Bar, has notified the Israeli war cabinet, broader cabinet and the defence establishment regarding this issue.

30 October 2023; MEMO: Israel has recalled diplomats from Turkiye after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticised it of behaving like a “war criminal”, local Turkish media reports.

According to the report, Erdogan made the comments while addressing thousands of demonstrators at a pro-Palestinian rally in Istanbul.

The Israeli Foreign Minister, Eli Cohen, responded by ordering diplomats to return.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel has “the most moral army in the world”.

30 October 2023; MEMO: The Israeli army, on Monday, claimed that its forces had managed to free one Israeli female soldier held by the Palestinian group, Hamas, in Gaza, Anadolu Agency reports.

In a joint statement, the Israeli army and general security service (Shin Bet) identified the soldier as Ori Megidish and claimed to have rescued her during an overnight military operation.

GAZA/JERUSALEM, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- Israeli tanks rolled into the southern outskirts of Gaza City on Monday, clashing with Hamas fighters who tried to stop their advance, Palestinian security sources and eyewitnesses said.

The sources said dozens of Israeli army vehicles crossed from the eastern parts of the Gaza Strip and reached the main Salah al-Din road, cutting off Gaza City from the cental part of the territory.

The sources said explosions were heard as the Israeli forces and Palestinian militants exchanged fire near the incursion area.

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli government ministry has drafted a wartime proposal to transfer the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million people to Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, drawing condemnation from the Palestinians and worsening tensions with Cairo.

29 October 2023; MEMO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that the decision to expand ground operations in the Gaza Strip was approved unanimously by the members of the war Cabinet, Anadolu reports.

30 October 2023; MEMO: The Israeli army on Sunday said it retaliated after its forces near the Shebaa Farms area along the border with Lebanon came under attack, reports Anadolu Agency.

No more details were immediately available, but residents of Israeli neighborhoods on the border were said to have been asked to take shelter elsewhere.

30 October 2023; MEMO: A document compiled by Israeli intelligence was discovered containing a proposal to displace the residents of the Gaza Strip to Sinai after Hamas is toppled in the enclave.