Israel News for 8-19-2024
News Update
A Hezbollah drone attack in the Western Galilee this morning claimed the life of Chief Warrant Officer Mahmood Amaria, a 45-year-old tracker in the 300th “Baram” Regional Brigade. The explosive laden drone that hit an IDF base today killed Amaria and wounded several other soldiers. IDF jets struck Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon today.
Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in Tel Aviv yesterday that ended up going wrong and just blowing up the terrorist. One passerby on a scooter sustained shrapnel wounds from the blast. The terrorist was identified as a Palestinian man from Nablus.
An Israeli security guard, Gidon Peri, died after a terrorist hit him in the head with a hammer and stole his handgun in the Bar-On industrial park near the settlement of Kedumim yesterday. The terrorist fled and is being hunted by the IDF.
Over the weekend, 2 IDF soldiers driving a truck in a convoy delivering equipment to troops in the southern Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City were hit by a roadside bomb and killed. They are:
- Sgt. Maj. (res.) Mordechai Yosef Ben Shoam, 34, a truck driver with the Jerusalem Brigade’s 8119th Battalion, from Geva Binyamin.
- Major (res.) Yotam Itzhak Peled, 34, a logistics officer in the Jerusalem Brigade’s 8119th Battalion, from Rosh Haayin.
Heavy fighting was reported in the Rafah area today.
U.S. Secretary of State Blinken met with Prime Minister Netanyahu for over 2 hours today in Jerusalem. Negotiations continue in Doha. Egyptian authorities have reportedly agreed to Israel’s demand not to set a timetable for the IDF’s withdrawal from the Philadelphi Corridor. U.S. officials are in Cairo trying to pressure the Egyptians into stationing Egyptian forces in Gaza as part of the potential cease-fire agreement. Egypt is rejecting the proposal.
