Netanyahu makes speech from Gaza, IDF announces fallen soldier in southern Lebanon

Hezbollah fired over 75 rockets on Monday, with one hitting Shfaram in northern Israel, killing one woman in her 50s and wounding 56 others, and shrapnel from another injuring five, one of whom is in serious condition.
Magen David Adom (MDA) said that the woman had been wounded while in a safe room of a building. Paramedics later pronounced her dead on the scene.

The Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa said it treated 56 people who were wounded in Shfaram, including 18 children and teenagers. Two of the wounded, a 41-year-old woman and a four-year-old boy, were in serious condition. Among the wounded being treated is also a pregnant woman.

IDF soldiers have come across several troves of Russian weapons in Hezbollah's possession in southern Lebanon, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. 

Some of the weapons were manufactured as recently as 2020, such as Kornet anti-tank missiles, which were transported from Russia, through Syria, and into southern Lebanon in recent years, the WSJ reported, citing a Syrian security official and a separate Arab official. 

According to the report, Israeli military leaders were aware that Hezbollah possessed Russian-made weapons, but the ground operation allowed Israel's defense establishment to uncover the extent to which Russian-made arms were supplied to Hezbollah. 

Drone intrusion sirens were activated across the Upper Galilee on Tuesday following the identification of two drones crossing from Lebanon into northern Israel, the military said. 

The drones did not cross into Israeli territory, and sirens were activated according to protocol, the IDF said.

Shortly after the sirens were activated, the Home Front Command announced that the incident had ended. 

The Israel Air Force intercepted two additional drones that approached Israeli territory from Lebanon prior to entering Israel. As a result, no sirens were activated. 

IDF troops, using drones, located two Hamas terrorists who were entering an underground shaft in the northern Gaza Strip, the military said on Monday.

The two terrorists were subsequently eliminated, the IDF added.

The incident was reportedly part of larger operations conducted by forces of the 162nd Division in Jabalya and Kfir Brigade soldiers in the Beit Lahiya area in northern Gaza geared at unearthing and demolishing terror infrastructure. 

Against the backdrop of the emerging US-brokered ceasefire agreement in the North, the challenges anticipated in its implementation, and the pressures on Hezbollah, Israel is at a pivotal juncture but must adopt a firmer stance against future threats, Professor Amatzia Baram, an expert in international relations and national security, told Maariv on Tuesday.

On Monday, the initial details of a ceasefire agreement being brokered by the United States and agreed upon by Israel were released.

The agreement includes significant changes to the existing arrangements, mainly addressing alterations to the composition of the international forces monitoring the border with Lebanon and stricter Israeli demands for the suppression of Hezbollah.

Jabalya, in the northern Gaza Strip, has become a symbol of heroism for Hamas, and the IDF believes that the fall of the refugee camp could open the door to advancing a hostage deal.

The IDF's 162nd Division has severely disrupted Hamas's attempts to rebuild its forces in northern Gaza over the past two months. 

Jabalya has become symbolic for Hamas, making the restoration of the Jabalya Battalion a priority for the terror group. It is estimated that approximately 3,000 terrorists regrouped in the camp.

US envoy Amos Hochstein landed in Beirut on Tuesday for talks with officials regarding a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel, Lebanon's state news agency NNA said on Tuesday, hours after a proposal drafted by Washington received a nod from the Iran-backed terror group.

After rocket sirens sounded across central Israel on Tuesday morning, including localities such as Herzliya and Netanya, five rockets were detected crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory, the IDF reported. 

Some of the rockets were intercepted, while crashes were identified.

Israel's emergency medical service, Magen David Adom, stated that response teams are en route to search areas where crashes were reported. 

IDF soldiers carried out an operation and eliminated wanted terrorists in the city of Qabatiya, near Jenin, in the West Bank overnight between Monday and Tuesday, Ynet reported. 

New EU and British sanctions are based on false claims of missile transfers to Russia and are "unjustified," Iran Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Tuesday.

Brussels on Monday added the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and its director to its list of sanctions on Iran, which it said were a consequence of Tehran's support of Russia in its war with Ukraine.