Moderate wins Iranian presidential race • Likud MKs demand Gallant replacement as he speaks with Lloyd Austin • Tensions rise in Israel’s north
IDF operates in Balata, Nablus, six Palestinians injured – report
The IDF reportedly operated in Balata in the Nablus area on Saturday.
While conducting operational activities, IDF soldiers were fired at by gunmen, and Palestinian reports indicate that six Palestinians had been wounded. There are no reported casualties among IDF soldiers.
IDF foils Hamas ambush in Shejaia, eliminates all terrorists
In the central Gaza Strip city of Deir al Balah, Hamas terrorists embedded a rocket launcher in a humanitarian area.
The IDF continued to push forward in the Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaia over the past day, succeeding in eliminating numerous terrorists, terror infrastructure, and weaponry, the IDF stated on Saturday morning.
In one incident in the north Gazan neighborhood, combat team troops from the 7th Brigade and the Paratroopers Brigade, operating under the command of the 98th Division, battled terrorists who had attempted to ambush and fire upon the troops, the IDF added.
By the end of the engagement, Israeli forces reportedly successfully eliminated all of the terrorists without sustaining any casualties.
Gazan Palestinians rejecting Hamas and Iran, want peace, Abbas advisor says
Mahmoud Al-Habbash, an advisor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, stressed that Palestinians did not want October 7 and it was time Hamas committed to a ceasefire.
Palestinians did not want October 7 and are now interested more in security than they are in fighting Israel or serving Iran’s interests in the region, Mahmoud Al-Habbash, an advisor to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, said on Thursday, Palestinian Media Watch reported.
Palestinian Media Watch is an Israeli NGO that says it monitors material in Palestinian media that promotes hatred and terrorism in order to expose and educate on such content.
“The Palestinian people did not want October 7, and it was not consulted with about Oct. 7,” Al-Habbash said. “And now it wants a ceasefire and for the aggression to stop.”
IDF Aerial Defense Array intercepts target over northern Israel
Sen. Lindsey Graham: Gazans ‘taught to hate Jews from birth,’ ‘most radicalized population’
Pro-Palestinian protesters chanted “Lindsey Graham we’re not done, intifada has just begun” outside the senator’s Fourth of July celebrations.
Senator Lindsey Graham, while addressing the pro-Palestinian demonstrations that took place on America’s Independence Day, claimed on X, formerly Twitter, that Palestinians born in Gaza are “the most radicalized population on the planet.”
Graham added that in addition to being the “most radicalized,” Gazans are “taught to hate Jews from birth,” and this “will take years to fix.”
Graham further noted that he saw widespread antisemitism in the pro-Palestinian movement, comparing the popular protest chant “from the river to the sea” to the Nazis’ final solution – which planned to see the complete extermination of the Jewish people.
WATCH: IAF strikes Hezbollah terrorists, military infrastructure in southern Lebanon
Sirens blared on Saturday morning as waves of suspicious aerial targets from Lebanon were intercepted.
Israeli air force aircraft struck a number of Hezbollah targets and terrorists in southern Lebanon overnight, the IDF stated on Saturday morning.
Among the targets hit were terrorists operating in the area of Bint Jbeil as well as terror and military infrastructure in the areas of Kfarkela, Bint Jbeil, and Yarine, the IDF noted.
Talks to free Israeli hostages to start in a 16-day period after first phase, Hamas source says
The Hamas source said the proposal guaranteed a temporary ceasefire, aid delivery and the withdrawal of Israeli troops.
A senior Hamas source said on Saturday that a revised Hamas-Israel deal proposal agreed that talks to release Israeli hostages, including soldiers and remaining men, would start in a 16-day period after the first phase of the agreement.
The source said that the proposal ensures that mediators would guarantee a temporary ceasefire, aid delivery, and withdrawal of Israeli troops as long as indirect talks continue to implement the second phase of the agreement.
The terrorist Islamist group has dropped a demand that Israel first commit to a permanent ceasefire before signing the agreement, and would allow negotiations to achieve that throughout a first six-week phase, the source told Reuters on condition of anonymity because the talks are private.
IAF strikes Hezbollah terrorists and infrastructure in southern Lebanon
Moderate Pezeshkian wins Iran’s presidential race, interior ministry says
Videos on social media showed supporters of Pezeshkian dancing in streets in many cities and towns across the country and motorists honking car horns to cheer his victory.
The low-profile moderate Masoud Pezeshkian, who has pledged to open Iran to the world and deliver freedoms its people have yearned for, has won the country’s run-off presidential vote, the interior ministry said on Saturday.
“By gaining majority of the votes cast on Friday, Pezeshkian has become Iran’s next president,” it said.
The participation was around 50% in a tight race between Pezeshkian, the sole moderate in the original field of four candidates, and hardline former nuclear negotiator SaeedJalili, a staunch advocate of deepening ties with Russia and China.
Likud MKs demand replacements for Defense Minister Gallant, security establishment heads
Likud party members claimed that the security system ignores the defense minister, thus he does not effectively manage the ongoing operation.
Four Likud Knesset members demanded that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately replace Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the heads of the security establishment in a letter sent on Friday.
In a letter signed by Osher Shekalim, Tally Gotliv, Ariel Kallner, and Keti Shitrit, the Likud party members claimed that the security system ignores the defense minister, thus he does not effectively manage the ongoing operation. establishment.”
- Hamas launched a massive attack on October 7, with thousands of terrorists infiltrating from the Gaza border and taking some 240 hostages into Gaza
- Over 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered, including over 350 in the Re’im music festival and hundreds of Israeli civilians across Gaza border communities
- 120 hostages remain in Gaza
- 43 hostages in total have been killed in captivity, IDF says