HY’D: The IDF has announced the death of Sergeant Assaf Zamir, z”l, who was killed during combat in Gaza. Two other soldiers from the 53rd Battalion of the 188th “Barak” Armored Brigade were seriously injured in the same incident and evacuated to the hospital. Their families have been notified.

Saudi Arabia secretly participated in intercepting Iranian drones during the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, according to Gulf sources cited by Yisrael Hayom. The Saudi air force reportedly scrambled helicopters to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles crossing regional airspace over Iraq and Jordan, halting their advance before they could reach Israel. While Riyadh has not publicly confirmed its involvement — and even condemned Israel’s strikes against Iran — the revelations point to a dramatic realignment in the Middle East, where Sunni powers increasingly see Iran as a shared threat worth countering, even if unofficially.

Overnight, Duvdevan unit fighters, guided by the Shin Bet, arrested three terrorists in Tubas without IDF casualties, while Samaria Brigade and Border Police forces raided Balata in Nablus, destroying a weapons lathe used for making arms and explosives.