Solidarity from Cape Town South Africa, the city I used to live in, for the hostages in Gaza

Baruch Dayan HaEmet

This was 20 year old Staff Sgt. Noam Yosef Abou of the Nahal Brigade's 931st Battalion from Dimona. He was killed in action in Gaza.

May his memory be for a blessing

IDF troops of the 551st Brigade and the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit located and destroyed a tunnel adjacent to an UNRWA school in the Beit Hanoun area.

Many of you helped to donate to the Yahalom unit from my collection.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met today, for the second time since the outbreak of war, with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem.

He was thanked for his friendship and support that is helping Israel in these trying times.

IDF releases new information on the operations of the 252nd Reserve Division in the Gaza Strip during Israel’s ground offensive which began late last month.

With the 252nd Division fighting in Gaza, it marks the first time since the 1982 First Lebanon War that an entire IDF reserve division is maneuvering in enemy territory.

The IDF says that in recent days the division captured the Beit Hanoun area in northern Gaza, while engaging in battles with Hamas operatives and demolishing the terror group’s infrastructure, including tunnels.

It says that since the beginning of the fighting, the 252nd Division has killed hundreds of Hamas operatives, including senior members, in Beit Hanoun and Jabaliya.

The division’s forces also destroyed Hamas compounds, launch positions, and tunnel networks, among some 300 targets that were struck in the last week, according to the IDF.