Israel News for 5-30-2024
News Update
A terrorist rammed his vehicle into 2 soldiers at a checkpoint near the entrance to Nablus, killing them. The soldiers were Staff Sgt. Eliya Hilel, 20, from Tel Zion, and Staff Sgt. Diego Shvisha Harsaj, 20, from Tel Aviv, both from the Kfir Brigade’s Nahshon Battalion. The terrorist surrendered to the Palestinian Authority security service, which has yet to transfer him to Israeli authorities. For more, click here.
The IDF has gained full control over the Philadelphia corridor, the strip of land bordering Egypt. At least 20 tunnels have been found there, and it’s unclear yet how many of them went under the border to Egypt and were used to smuggle in supplies and weapons. Troops also located structures and dugouts housing dozens of loaded rocket launchers, which were positioned only meters from the border in the belief that the IDF would not strike an area so close to Egypt.
IDF soldiers killed in Gaza:
Staff Sgt. Yedidya Azugi, 21, of the Paratrooper Brigade’s 101st Battalion, from Revava.
Israel intercepted a cruise missile over the Golan, which was launched from Iraq.
The Israel Lands Authority informed UNRWA, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency, that the organization must leave the premises it has been using in eastern Jerusalem and pay Israel tens of millions of shekels in delinquent rent for the years it has been using the property. For more, click here.
