Israel News for 4-4-2024
News Update
The security cabinet is meeting today to discuss, what is being viewed as, an imminent threat of an Iranian attack in some form. The IDF has cancelled weekend leave for combat soldiers and is calling up reserves in the areas of aerial defense, intelligence and the home front command. Iran has threatened revenge for the Israeli attack earlier this week that killed senior commanders in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp in Damascus.
The Waze navigation app has been showing Israelis in central Israel that they are in Beirut today. Israel’s cybersecurity chief Yigal Unna told Ynet that the disruption of the GPS apps was an effective tool to confuse weapons using the technology to reach their targets.
Security forces arrested 11 Arabs, from the West Bank and Negev, suspected of planning to assassinate National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and attack targets such as military bases, the Ben Gurion Airport and government offices. For more, click here.
Lidor Levi, the 34 year old man stabbed in a terror attack in Gan Yavne on Sunday, died of his wounds. He leaves behind his pregnant wife and a six-month-old daughter.
Hamas has rejected all Israeli proposals for a deal to release the hostages and is sticking to their original, unacceptable, demands.
The US, Britain and France opposed a Russian-drafted U.N. Security Council statement to condemn the Israeli attack on Iran’s embassy compound in Syria earlier this week.
For a complete list of the soldiers killed in the ground offensive, click here.
