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5 Israeli soldiers were seriously wounded and another 3 suffered light injuries in a Hezbollah rocket attack in northern Israel earlier today.

Shabbat Shalom greetings from Israeli pilots in the skies over Iran.

Iranians watching heavy overnight US-Israeli bombardment of regime bases in Ilam seem rather amused by the spectacle.

Over 80 Israeli Air Force warplanes took part in an overnight strike wave targeting Iranian missile productions and storage facilities and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military academy in Tehran.

US Central Command has struck 3,000 targets in Iran since the start of Operation Epic Fury seven days ago.

Among those targets are 43 Iranian naval vessels (effectively wiping out the Iranian Navy), nuclear facilities, ballistic missile production and storage facilities, and mobile missile launchers.

Initial report - The IDF has begun a broad wave of strikes against infrastructure of the Iranian terror regime in Tehran and Isfahan.

The US is sending a third aircraft carrier, the USS George H.W. Bush, to the Middle East. (Fox News)

The US has approved an emergency sale of 12,000 bombs to Israel.

Iranian suicide drones hit the airport in Dubai.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reacts to activists holding a pro-Palestinian banner: “If the Palestinians laid down their weapons there would be peace in 24 hours!”

Israeli special forces operated deep in Lebanese territory overnight on a mission to find the remains of missing Air Force navigator Ron Arad.

The troops reportedly came under fire, but there were no casualties. They failed to find Arad’s remains.

Ron Arad and pilot Yishai Aviram ejected over Lebanon in 1986 when a bomb dropped by their F-4 Phantom II exploded prematurely and damaged their aircraft while on a mission against Palestinian terror groups.

Aviram was rescued by Israeli forces, but Arad was captured, and later handed over to Hezbollah.

In its attack on Mehrabad Airport in Tehran earlier today, the Israeli Air Force destroyed 16 planes used by the IRGC Quds Force to transfer weapons to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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Head of the Israel Air Force, Gen. Tomer Bar, participated personally in sorties against the Iranian regime.