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Yaakov Lappin

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IAF targets more Houthi infrastructure, in long-range warning to Iran

The Israeli Air Force hit three Houthi ports and two military targets, just as a Houthi missile was flying toward Israel

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Missiles and UAV's are showed for the people on the side of the road in Tehran, Iran, on February 11, 2024. (Photo by Hossein Beris / Middle East Images / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by HOSSEIN BERIS/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Sain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and slain IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani (Getty Images)

How Iran is trying to get supplies to Hezbollah, in spite of chaos in Syria

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Syrian regime airstrikes target anti-regime fighters in Aleppo, in northern Syria on November 30 (Image: Getty)

The scale of Iran’s loss in Syria cannot be overstated

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Iranian women hold pictures of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli air strike on Beirut's southern suburbs on September 27, during an anti-Israel protest in Palestine Square in Tehran on September 30, 2024. (Photo by ATTA KENARE / AFP) (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

Exactly how long would it take Iran to make a nuclear bomb?

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Iran is losing the tool it built —Hezbollah — to defend its nuclear programme, say Israeli analysts

The assassination of Nasrallah has changed the strategic game in the Middle East, say Israeli military experts

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September 30, 2024 08:59

Hezbollah fighters in Beirut (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Pager attack ‘damaged Hezbollah’s entire senior command structure’

A former Israeli Navy officer analyses the impact of Israel’s remarkable communications strike this week

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September 20, 2024 10:38

Hezbollah's senior command have likely faced severe damage after the mass pager and radio explosions in Lebanon and Syria (Credit: Getty Images)

What does Israel’s strike against Hezbollah in Beirut mean for its citizens?

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July 31, 2024 09:39

This pictured shows the aftermath of an Israeli military strike on a building in Beirut's southern suburb on July 31, 2024. The Israeli military said it carried out a strike on July 30, in Beirut that targeted a Hezbollah commander responsible for the killing of children in last week's rocket attack on the Golan Heights. A source close to Hezbollah told AFP that a senior commander was targeted in an Israeli strike on its south Beirut stronghold. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP) (Photo by ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images)

Terror militias in Iraq now have drones that can hit Eilat

On Saturday, two UAVs approached the area north of Eilat from Syrian territory

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July 15, 2024 09:25

Smoke billows from forest fires near the southern Lebanese village of Shebaa, close to the northern border of Israel, following the shooting down of a drone by the Israeli army on July 4, 2024 (Getty Images)

IDF could complete high-intensity phase of Gaza war by May

Without a ceasefire deal, the army will likely dismantle four Rafah Hamas battalions by end of April, according to army sources

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February 21, 2024 16:06

TOPSHOT - Israeli women soldiers, from the mixed gender infantry unit of the Bardelas battalion, take part in a training exercise along the Israel-Egypt border near Har Harif, east of the Southern Israeli city of Mitzpe Ramon on January 18, 2024. Israel's ground offensive in the Palestinian territory, which came in response to unprecedented attacks by Hamas militants on October 7, has shifted military attitudes towards women. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP) (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP via Getty Images)

How is the Gaza buffer zone going to work?

A kilometre-wide stretch of land along the Gaza side of the border could feature a series of obstacles to thwart attacks

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February 2, 2024 16:56

Israeli army soldiers stand at a position along the border between southern Israeli and the Gaza Strip on January 31, 2024 amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

The terror rockets are drying up - but how badly damaged is Hamas?

Ten out of 24 battalions severely hit with thousands of terrorists killed, says IDF

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November 21, 2023 09:46

Smoke rises during an Israeli military bombardment of the northern Gaza Strip on November 15, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. Thousands of civilians, both Palestinians and Israelis, have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip entered southern Israel in an unprecedented attack triggering a war declared by Israel on Hamas with retaliatory bombings on Gaza. (Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP) (Photo by FADEL SENNA/AFP via Getty Images)

We have Hamas chief surrounded in bunker says IDF

Defence minister Yoav Gallant has claimed that Israeli forces have isolated Yahya Sinwar in Gaza

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November 8, 2023 08:08

Yahya Sinwar, Hamas' political chief in Gaza, speaks during a rally organised by the representatives of prominent families (mokhtar) in support of "the Palestinian resistence" in Gaza City, on June 20, 2021. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

IDF says terrorist from Lebanon carried out northern Israel highway bombing

The suspect, armed with a suicide vest and a rifle, was killed at a security checkpoint

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March 15, 2023 17:01

IDF says terrorist from Lebanon carried out northern Israel highway bombing

IDF veteran reunited with abducted dog after police hunt

Officers tracked down the canine-napper in the capital’s hostile Silwan neighbourhood

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March 7, 2023 12:10

IDF veteran reunited with abducted dog after police hunt

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