Israeli troops struck two Hamas terrorists who were planning to carry out a sniper attack imminently against IDF soldiers in the northern Gaza Strip.

Terrorists in Gaza have prepared and carried out several attacks on Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip and civilians in nearby Israeli locales since a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel went into effect in October of last year.

Hamas leadership is trying hard to open a new front in the Iran war, but their operational capabilities have been severely degraded since the start of the Iron Swords war.

US Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner are expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

The visit would be the first by senior US officials to Israel since the Feb. 28 launch of “Operation Roaring Lion/Epic Fury.”

Death toll in central Israel has risen to 2. Both fatalities were construction workers who failed to enter a bomb shelter when the sirens sounded.

Iran is no longer just threatening borders. It is threatening survival.

A strike on a desalination plant is not another military headline. In this region, it is an assault on the civilian lifeline itself. In the Gulf—and in Israel—water infrastructure is not secondary infrastructure. It is the thin line between stability and chaos.

This is what makes Iran’s targeting of desalination plants so revealing: the regime is not merely escalating the war. It is probing for the most fragile pressure point in desert nations whose populations depend on these facilities for daily life.

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Rocket fire from Hezbollah in Lebanon reached central Israel a short time ago, with shrapnel reportedly falling in at least two locations.

Earlier today, Israeli troops operating in southern Lebanon identified a Hezbollah terrorist cell entering a site in a Christian area.

Following the identification, the troops directed an Israeli Air Force fighter jet, which struck and eliminated the terrorist cell.

Israel reportedly destroyed a manufacturing facility in Isfahan used to produce Iran’s Shaheed attack drones.

No one does wartime PR like the Trump administration.

Israel is getting better at it, but Jerusalem should take notes. There are still a lot of lessons to learn from the Americans.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps threatened yesterday to escalate the rate and intensity of missile fire at Israel, saying it would from now on only fire missiles with warheads of one ton or more.

There was concern in Israel that last night would be a sleepless, violent night.

But the IRGC threat has so far not materialized.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: Iran is the center of international terrorism and it must be shut down.

Israel bolsters aerial superiority over Iran

In a wave of strikes against the Iranian regime yesterday, the Israeli Air Force hit six major Iranian military airfields.

As part of the strikes, numerous aircraft were dismantled, including Quds Force aircraft belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iranian combat helicopters.

In addition, runways and defense and detection systems intended to operate against Israeli aircraft operating in Iranian airspace were struck.

The airfields that were struck were used by the Iranian terror regime to arm and finance terrorist proxies across the Middle East, including Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthi terrorist regime.

Israeli warplanes struck an IRGC UAV headquarters. From there, the Iranian terror regime launched drones toward the State of Israel and stored within it additional drones that were prepared for launch.

The combined effort to further degrade the regime's offensive and defense capabilities continues, including an expansion of strikes on the ballistic missile production infrastructure throughout Iran.