IDF probe into the incident states “IDF said it understands what led the soldiers to do so.”

Beit Lahia, Gaza.

Utter destruction.

Israeli Army logistics vehicle crashed in Be'er Sheva while carrying missiles.

Bypassing the Houthis: First truck shipments from Dubai (UAE) arrived in Israel.

Israel has started operating a land bridge from the ports of Dubai as a replacement for voyages through the Red Sea, on a journey of about 2,000 km and two days through Jordan.

The overland journey from Dubai, at a distance of 2,550 km, takes four days, and from Bahrain, at a distance of 1,700 km, two days and seven hours.

Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza has been completely destroyed by Israel.

Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer HMS Diamond has shot down a suspected attack drone targeting merchant shipping in the Red Sea - destroying the target with a Sea Viper missile.

French frigate FS Languedoc also fired an Aster 15 missile at a similar target earlier this week.

It is also the first time the RN has destroyed an aerial target in combat since the Gulf war of 1991.

CENTCOM says US Navy’s Arliegh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS CARNEY (DDG 64), operating in the Red Sea, successfully engaged 14 unmanned aerial systems launched as a drone wave from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen earlier today.

The UAS were assessed to be one-way attack drones and were shot down with no damage to ships in the area or reported injuries.

Hamas to Israel on hostages:

Time is running out.

Hamas message to Israel:

The choice is yours, in coffins or alive.

French shipping group CMA CGM syas it’s pausing all container shipments through the Red Sea amidst Houthi attacks.

Hamas fighters storm IDF position, seize weapon of the killed IDF soldier.

IDF soldiers got attacked from a tunnel shaft in Gaza by a Hamas fighter.

Then they threw a grenade into the tunnel, possibly killing Hamas fighter.

53 years old IDF reserve soldier Yehezkel Azaria was killed in the Lebanese border today.

Turkish aerospace company Baykar’s CEO Haluk Bayraktar was presented with the Medal of Honor of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia on the 88th anniversary of the establishment of the Ethiopian Air Force.

Bayraktar is the first foreigner to receive the Ethiopian Medal of Honor.

Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 UCAVs, which saved Ethiopia from being torn apart & played a decisive role in ending the civil war with a peace agreement, are actively used by the Ethiopian Army.

Russian Wagner PMC in Libya, Mali, etc., is being rebranded as the “Africa Corps” in a clear reference to Nazi Germany.

German Afrika Korps was Nazi Germany’s expeditionary force in Africa during the North African campaign of World War II.

U.S. to announce next week the formation of “Operation Prosperity Guardian”, a new international effort deal with Houthi threats.

One-sixth of the world's commercial shipping passes through the Bab-al-Mandeb Strait and Red Sea.

While there will be a new task force created next week, whether there will be any direct response against Houthi military targets remains to be seen.

Source: The War Zone