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Israel to Observe Memorial Day Amid Gaza War, Hostage Crisis
Mourners visit the graves of fallen IDF soldiers at Israel’s Yom HaZikaron ceremony. Photo: Israel Defense Forces
i24 News – On Sunday and Monday, Israel is to observe Yom Hazikaron, the nation’s official Memorial Day for her fallen soldiers and victims of terrorism. The commemoration comes amid Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas.
According to the Defense Ministry, 766 Israeli soldiers were killed while serving in the military during the past year. Another 61 veterans died due to complications from wounds sustained during their service in previous years.
A minute of silence will be held across the country at 8:00 p.m. (local time). A minute-long siren will sound and after that the state memorial ceremony will open in the Western Wall Plaza in the Old City of Jerusalem, with the President Isaac Herzog and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi planned to attend the event.
On Monday, at 11:00 a.m. a two-minute siren will sound, followed by the state ceremony for the martyrs of Israel’s systems at the State Memorial Hall for the fallen of Israel’s systems on Mount Herzl, in the presence of President Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other officials.
Immediately after the siren, at 11:02 a.m., a special flight of fighter jets with a missing structure will pass over the military cemetery and the state memorial hall on Mount Herzl and over Pilot’s Mountain. At 1:00 p.m. the state memorial ceremony for the victims of hostilities in Israel and abroad will be held at the state memorial on Mount Herzl.
The Memorial Day events will end at 20:00 when with the torchlight ceremony that will mark the 76th Independence Day of the State of Israel. Following the events of October 7, the ceremony will be conducted in a different manner – with no audience present, filmed in advance – and honor the Hamas hostages.
Earlier on Saturday, hostages’ families rallied to demand a deal, emphasizing 38 captives have been already declared dead. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum said the demonstration is meant to mourn the memory of the hostages who have been killed and whose bodies are being held by Hamas in Gaza.
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250 Hezbollah Terrorists Including 21 Commanders Eliminated in Ground Op
DF operating in southern Lebanon. Photo: IDF Spokesperson
i24 News – The Israeli military eliminated 250 Hezbollah terrorists including 21 commanders in four days of ground combat, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement on Friday.
IDF soldiers operating in southern Lebanon have uncovered vast caches of weapons and munitions in civilian residences, showing how central embedding within civilian population is to Hezbollah’s mode of warfare.
Meanwhile, heavy strikes targeting the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahieh in southern Beirut were ongoing, Lebanese media reported.
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Airstrikes Launched on Several Parts of Yemen, Houthi Al Masirah TV says
Illustrative. Hodeidah, Yemen, July 20, 2024. Houthi Military Media/Handout via REUTERS
Airstrikes were launched on Friday at several parts of Yemen including its capital Sanaa and Hodeidah airport, Al Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by the Houthi movement controlling much of Yemen, and residents said.
Strikes also targeted the south of Dhamar city and the southeast of al-Bayda province, the channel added.
Residents said that the attack on al-Bayda province targeted several Houthi military outposts.
Al Masirah TV reported that the strikes had been carried out by the United States and British forces, but a British government source said Britain was not involved.
Iran-aligned Houthi militants have launched attacks on international shipping near Yemen since last November in solidarity with Palestinians in Israel‘s war with Hamas.
The attacks have drawn US and British retaliatory strikes and disrupted global trade as ship owners reroute vessels away from the Red Sea and Suez Canal to sail the longer route around the southern tip of Africa.
Following the airstrikes, a Houthi spokesman called the attack “a desperate attempt,” adding that “Yemen will not be deterred by these attacks and will continue its steadfastness in confronting the enemies.”
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IDF Kills Hamas Commander in Tulkarem
Illustrative. Israeli troops during counterterrorism activity in Tulkarem, northwestern Samaria, September 2024. Photo: IDF.
JNS.org – An Israeli Air Force fighter jet conducted a rare strike in Tulkarem in the West Bank on Thursday night, targeting top Hamas terrorist Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi.
The Palestinian Authority reported at least 18 fatalities in the strike, with a local security source telling Agence France-Presse it was the deadliest in Judea and Samaria since the Second Intifada.
Ayyth Radwan, the head of Islamic Jihad’s Tulkarem branch, was also reportedly killed.
Oufi was planning a terrorist attack “in the immediate time frame,” according to the Israel Defense Forces, and directed the thwarted car bombing last month near Ateret in the Binyamin region of Samaria.
There were no casualties in the incident, which Israel Ganz, the head of the Binyamin Regional Council, called a “great miracle.”
The IDF said Oufi was involved in smuggling weapons to terrorists who perpetrated several recent attacks against Israelis, including some that resulted in injuries to civilians.
He also “worked to establish terrorist networks on behalf of Hamas and assisted terror operatives in the area to carry out significant shooting and explosive attacks,” added the military.
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