A report in the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper revealed new details about Hamas’s diabolical plan to infiltrate and attack Israel, including the fact that an October 7th-style massacre was considered even before Operation Protective Edge in 2014 but was put on hold following the war.

The Chief Rabbinate organized a special Yom Tefilla on Wednesday afternoon, which took place at the Kosel at 3:30PM, and was attended by thousands upon thousands of people. Several organizations, including the Families Forum, participated in this event. It was attended by the Chief Rabbis, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and Rabbi David Lau. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

The IDF reports that its troops are engaged in ongoing combat with Hamas terrorists in the Khan Younis region of southern Gaza and the Maghazi area in the center of the Strip. Over the past day, strikes have been executed against more than 150 targets linked to the terror group.

HY’D: The IDF announced the death of Sgt First Class (res.) Elkana Newlander, 24, a combat medic in the 99th HaBazaq division, killed yesterday whilen in battle in central Gaza. His death brings the IDF’s ground operation death toll to 186 and 520 since October 7th.

Thousands of migrants will be evacuated from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn to ride out a potential rainstorm on Tuesday night, officials said.

A tragic incident occurred on Monday in Gaza when an explosion occurred on an IDF truck carrying explosive material during an operation by the Combat Engineering Corps’ Yahalom unit, killing six soldiers and seriously injuring three, including actor and singer Idan Amedi.

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and senior IDF officials have informed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and war cabinet ministers several times that “Yehudah and Shomron are on the verge of explosion.” According to Channel 12 News, the IDF echelon specifically warned about an extremely precarious and potentially explosive situation in Yehudah and Shmoron

The IDF says four more soldiers were killed while operating in Gaza, raising the death toll in the IDF’s ground operation to 180. The slain soldiers were identified as: • Sergeant Roi Tal, 19, a soldier in the 94th Battalion, Kafir Brigade, killed in battle in southern Gaza.

An IDF source reportedly leaked a video to Channel 12 showing a group of stripped and bound Palestinian detainees in northern Gaza blaming Hamas for their plight. “For 17 years, we’ve lived under tyranny,” one detainee says in the video, referencing Hamas, the governing authority in Gaza.

President Biden encountered vocal opposition from protesters demanding a cease-fire in Gaza during a speech in South Carolina at a church where nine worshippers were murdered by a white supremacist in 2015.