Seven Hamas terrorists who participated in the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre in Israel’s northwestern Negev were killed in Israel Defense Forces operations in central Gaza in recent weeks, the military announced on Tuesday.
Troops from the 99th Division’s 990th Reserve Artillery Regiment eliminated many terrorists, including the Oct. 7 perpetrators, whom the army named as Abd al-Razzeq, Marzouk al-Hur, Maaz al-Hur, Abd Abu-Awad Yusri, Omar Abu-Abdallah, Ahmed Zahid and Maad Abu-Garboua.

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) has recently reported that it uncovered around 200 attempts by Iranian hackers to target civilians. The agency revealed this information, highlighting the scale of the cyber threats.
These hacking efforts involved phishing campaigns aimed at a wide range of individuals, including politicians, academics, and media figures. The Shin Bet further explained that the hackers were attempting to gain unauthorized access to the personal data of their targets, including emails, computers, and smartphones. By infiltrating these devices, the hackers sought to gather sensitive information such as home addresses and locations where these individuals reside.

The U.S. State Department said on Monday that the Israeli-Hezbollah ceasefire, which went into effect last Wednesday, is thus far “successful, broadly speaking,” with no determination yet made of accusations of Israeli violations.
Despite ongoing Israeli anti-terror strikes and Monday’s retaliation by Hezbollah, the ceasefire, brokered by the United States and France, has “been successful in stopping the fighting and getting us on a path where we are not seeing the daily loss of life that we had seen for two months prior,” Matthew Miller, the department’s spokesman, told reporters at the daily press briefing.

Art Cashin, director of floor operations for UBS at the New York Stock Exchange and a Wall Street veteran of some six decades, died at 83, Reuters reported.
CNBC, where Cashin was a regular for 25 years, reported that Cashin eschewed credit cards. The longtime Wall Street fixture “paid for everything, particularly his voluminous bar bills, with cash, saying he cherished his anonymity,” per CNBC.

Argentina’s Defense Minister Luis Alfonso Petri is in Israel to strengthen the strategic-security partnership between the countries.
Petri met with his Israeli counterpart Israel Katz at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv over the weekend, along with top Israeli officials from the defense establishment.
The meetings revolved around key strategic issues, including “Iran’s destabilizing activities in the Middle East and Latin America,” Israel’s Defense Ministry spokesperson said in a statement.
“This visit is a testament to Argentina’s unwavering support for Israel in the current war, strengthening the deep and strategic partnership between the nations,” the spokesperson continued.

Rep. Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.) slams President Biden over his pardoning of his son Hunter, and for undermining the Department of Justice.

The Supreme Court appeared sympathetic Monday to arguments that the Food and Drug Administration acted properly when it rejected applications to market fruit- and dessert-flavored liquids for e-cigarettes that the agency says are particularly attractive to young people who risk getting hooked on nicotine.
The justices heard oral arguments in an FDA appeal of a lower-court decision, which found the agency had unfairly shifted its standards for approving the vaping products while deciding on applications from two companies.

The Government of Canada recently designated Ansarallah, commonly known as the Houthis, as a terrorist entity under its criminal code, Public Safety Canada announced on Dec. 2.
This designation makes it a criminal offense to financially interact with the Houthis, marking them as the 79th terrorist entity listed under the Canadian Criminal Code.
The “addition of Ansarallah as a listed terrorist entity contributes to our efforts in fighting terrorism globally and aligning Canada with our allies,” said Dominic LeBlanc, minister of public safety, democratic institutions and intergovernmental affairs.

An Israeli Navy ship on Monday night shot down a drone launched towards the country “from the east,” the Israel Defense Forces said, using a phrase that typically refers to an attack originating from Iraq.
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was intercepted in the “Red Sea area” before crossing into Israeli territory, according to the military, which noted that no air-raid sirens were activated, as per policy.

Moshe Ya’alon, a former military chief and defense minister in a prior government led by Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, on Monday clarified remarks in which he accused the IDF of “ethnic cleansing.”
“I did not direct my words at the IDF, but at politicians who proudly speak of ethnic cleansing of Gaza (at this point, only the northern part of the Strip) and settling it with Jews. This is defined by law as a ‘war crime,’” Ya’alon said in a Hebrew statement.
Ya’alon claimed he hurled his accusations against the government after requests from “commanders who are acting in accordance with morality and law and told me that it was explained to them they were evacuating all Palestinians from the northern Gaza Strip for operational reasons.