The Hebrew newspaper Yedioth

🗣️ Quoting a settler from Avivim

I saw my house burning before my eyes due to Hezbullah's missiles. The security forces prevented me from approaching and extinguishing the fire due to the seriousness of the situation. Apparently Hezbullah saw Israeli army soldiers next to the house and fired the missiles.

🗣️ Quoting a settler from Metulla:

The Metulla settlement has not been evacuated since its founding in this way. Even in the 2006 war there were a number of settlers still inside it. This time we were evacuated in a state of panic because they were afraid of infiltration operations, and today there are missiles. Anti-armor precision missiles targeting us.

⚠️ Initial reports of an Israeli targeted assassination in Tyre

☠️ Hezbullah to release footage of their attack on the spy balloon today and its crew.

This will mark the first successful use of the Almas ATGM against infantry (soldiers, etc), and in a spectacular show.

📹 Footage of the remarkable deed, and first of a kind, of Hezbullah shooting down a spy balloon, attacking its CC, and its crew.

The balloon crashed in Lebanon and its equipment taken to safety.

The 3 long-range ATGM attacks were accurate.

5 casualties were reported in this attack, including 4 soldiers.

📹 The Israeli targeted assassination in Tyre murdered one and injured two others in a passing car.

📹 Footage released by Hamas of a daring operation in Rafah, by placing two anti-tank IEDs near active Merkava tanks and engaging a third with an RPG.

The resistance fighters emerged from tunnels from inside a courtyard cleared and secured by the Israeli army.

🌷 Hezbullah mourns a hero and man with a very long record of honourable service in the path of the resistance since his youth.

Hezbullah mourns its commander Sayyed Hussein Makki, on the path to Jerusalem and in defense of south Lebanon against the Israeli state of terror.

Today Hussein rests after decades of hard work spent building the strong and smart resistance that is today in the sacred lands of south Lebanon.

Hussein is united with those who rose before him, united in God's glorious and wonderful heavens.

🌷 The martyr Hussein Ibrahim Makki, born in 1969 in Beit Hanoun, alongside the Iranian martyr Mohammed Rida Zahidi, who was killed by Israel last month in Damascus.

📹 The Israeli enemy released footage of their targeted assassination in Tyre that murdered Hussein Makki, a senior field commander in Hezbullah.

The footage shows what locals reported as a 3-strike attack.

📃 The IDF announces the 700ᵗʰ acknowledged military or ‘police’ death

☠️ Sgt. Ira Yair Gispan, 19, of the 7th Armored Brigade's 75th Battalion.
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🪦 He was killed ‘yesterday’ in the southern Gaza Strip, bringing the official toll of troops killed in the ground offensive in Gaza & operations on its border to 273.

🎊 It's the 700ᵗʰ acknowledged Israeli military or ‘police’ death and counting

700 enemy combatants in uniforms of the genocidal & rogue state of ‘Israel’ have been listed as war casualties since Oct ⁠7, either slain in combat by the heroes of the resistance, killed in operational accidents or even suicide.

☠️ In details:
- 638 IDF members, 17 names of which have been withheld and 621 names released (TOI list).
- 62 police members, incl. Yamam (elite unit active in Gaza) and Border Police (military force active in the West Bank and Jerusalem).

Besides, ten Shin Bet members were killed in battles on Oct ⁠7, four of which are included in the IDF count and one was killed in her home.

Total in the security establishment: at ⁠least 706. (Not incl.: Haredi ‘guards’ & ‘security squad’ members licensed to carry guns or even trained by the IDF yet not in IDF reserves; security personnel labelled ‘civilian’ because killed off-duty; civil personnel who were belligerents)

◻️ A pause due to ‘Memorial Day’ and ‘Independence Day’

🗣️ In response to the Israeli assassination yesterday of a Hezbullah commander, the Meron Base and Branit barracks have been attacked with rockets, artillery, and Burkan rockets.

Damage has been confirmed by Hezbullah.

📷 Photo of a Burkan rocket landing inside Branit barracks.

Base is mostly evacuated.

📹 About 60 rockets were fired towards Meron Base.

A couple impacted it, causing some minor damage. Rest landed around it.

📝 Exactly 24 hours before the assassination, the Israeli media leaked reports that the army was planning to evacuate Meron Settlement. They knew what was going to happen.

📷 These events were followed by an Israeli airstrike on Aitaroun. No casualties

📷 And another in Al-Rayhan mountain in south Lebanon.

📹 Initial reports of one death and two injuries in Al-Mansouri village.

It is not clear of its a misfire from the latest rocket barrage by the Palestinian factions (Hamas) or a drone strike.

📃 Gallant rebukes Netanyahu over possible military rule in Gaza

Defense Minister Gallant has sharply criticized Netanyahu on issues so far addressed privately:

“I have been raising the issue in the cabinet for several months - without an answer. Local Palestinian rule is above all an Israeli interest. […] A dangerous trend is developing that promotes an Israeli military gov't in the Gaza Strip”

“An Israeli military government in Gaza would become Israel's main security effort in the years to come, cost many needless blood and victims and also bring a heavy economic price. I will not agree to the establishment of an Israeli military gov't in Gaza, Israel must not do this.

“I call on Netanyahu to make a decision and declare that there will be no Israeli military gov't and that a governing alternative to Hamas be promoted immediately, right now.”