In the surprise attack carried out by Hamas, lethal means made by Iran were used but were unknown to the Israeli security establishment.

Among other things, air-thermal fuel bombs were used, which after detonation cause a fire at an extremely high temperature.

The same bombs were dropped by drones at Merkavas tanks, destroying their sensors and blinding the tanks and Trophy system.

⋯ A few days old video by Hamas showing destroyed Merkava tanks.

The tanks are supposed to be one of the best in the world and most protected.

Reminder for Gaza!

Earlier this year , the Israeli Navy bought 2 American landing vessels to boost IDF's capacity to stage raids from sea.

The Landing craft are used primarily to transport and tactically deploy soldiers, equipment, vehicles, and supplies from ship to shore for the conduct of offensive military operations.

The landing craft will be embedded with a new squadron formed by the INF at the Ashdod Naval Base.

🚨 The Israeli army attacked the house of the brother of Hamas's leader in Gaza, Yehya Al-Sinwar.

Casualties are reported after this targeted assassination.

🚨 Red Alert of rocket fire from Lebanon towards Israel.

(Update: yet another false alarm)

Yet another false alarm in the north, with no rockets fired from Lebanon, making it the 3rd for today.

The IDF fired several illumination flares.

Additional flares being fired near Kiryat Shmona facing Lebanon.

The Lebanese government sent a message to the UN about Israel's violation of Lebanese sovereignty, and stressed that the decision of war and peace isn't in its hands but in the hands of the Islamic Resistance - Hezbullah. (Al-Jadeed news)

🚨 ‘Cleared for publication’: IDF acknowledges one soldier was killed in the Hezbollah anti-tank guided missile attack on the Lebanon border yesterday. Staff Sgt. (res.) Matanya Elster, 22, from the Carmeli Brigade.

Another soldier is said to be in critical condition.

Jordan is worried that the Israeli army is planning to cause a mass immigration crisis in Gaza towards the deserts of Egypt in Sinai.

🚨 The Palestinian Ministry of Health announces 1,537 martyrs and 6,612 wounded in Gaza. 32 martyrs and 190 wounded in the West Bank.

“The security establishment is preparing for a ground entry into the Gaza Strip and is waiting for the approval of the political level. If the approval is given, the forces are prepared for a stay of months.”

Current objective presented is “the disarmament of the Gaza Strip”.

- Israeli journalist Hallel Biton.

Iranian foreign minister lands in Beirut, is welcomed by representatives of Hamas and PIJ alongside a parliamentary delegation from Hezbullah and Amal.

The Israeli army demolished a pizza shop in the West Bank's Huwara Palestinian village over its owner's Facebook ad that mocked an elderly Israeli hostage.

Latest Israeli airstrikes in Al Buraij camp claims more than a dozen civilian casualties.

With many internal displacement and families gathering in few houses, the death toll from the Israeli airstrikes is claiming more lives.

Today: A Palestinian man holds the body of a child who was killed in Israeli strikes, in Gaza City, October 12, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

🚨 Massive bombardment is ongoing now in Northern Gaza, heard all the way to central Israel.

The Israeli army is using bunker buster bombs.

From the airstrikes on Gaza tonight.

Israeli gunboats are participating in the attacks.

The Washington Post reports that a 'top secret' US intelligence document from February deemed a wider conflict between Israel and Hezbollah to be 'unlikely' as they had settled into a posture of 'mutual deterrence'