Israel News for 3-26-2026
News Update
At least 14 people were lightly wounded across Israel today in a series of missile and rocket attacks from Iran and Lebanon. A house in Tel Aviv and a building in the Arab city of Kafr Qasem in central Israel were hit. In the north, a bus driver was lightly wounded by the blast wave from a cluster munition strike in the Haifa Bay area, and another person was treated for shock after debris hit a shopping mall, damaging several stores. Attacks and sirens continued throughout the night and into today.
Sgt. Ori Greenberg, 21, from Petach Tikvah, a Golani Brigade commando, was killed overnight in southern Lebanon in a close-range fight with Hezbollah terrorists. Ori was due to complete his military service in about two months and was expected to leave afterward on an educational mission to the United States through the Jewish Agency, to work with teenagers. Hezbollah has fired over 600 times on Israel and IDF troops in southern Lebanon, in the last 24 hours
Defense Minister Israel Katz said Thursday that Israel had killed the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy, Alireza Tangsiri, in an overnight strike, describing him as the Iranian officer directly responsible for mining operations and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. He was killed along with other senior naval officers. The strike took place in the strategic port city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran.
The Iranians reportedly have 27 underground missile “cities”, constructed over the past decade, which are unable to be destroyed by airstrikes. The U.S. and Israeli strikes have been aimed at hitting the entrances and sealing the missile sites, but each base has multiple access points, and even those that have been hit have in many cases been reopened by engineering crews. To read more, click here.
