Former hostage Amit Soussana, who was the first Israeli woman to speak about being sexual assaulted while in Hamas captivity, says kidnapped IDF soldier Liri Albag saved her life.

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Mikhail Samara was killed on Highway 4 when an interceptor missile, launched from a combat helicopter attempting to shoot down a Hezbollah UAV, struck his vehicle, the IDF cleared for publication on Wednesday.

In several areas throughout the Gaza Strip, IDF troops fired warning shots toward suspects who approached and posed a threat to them.

Despite recent protests and threats from haredi parties to the rest of the coalition, the IDF is planning to double the amount of draft notices sent to haredim in the near future.

Sky's Adam Parsons breaks down the ongoing IDF military operation in the West Bank which Palestinians have criticised as 'indiscriminate' attacks.

IDF fighters on the ground in Jenin reported to the defense minister that they found a lot of arms stashed away by terrorists, 'just like in Gaza'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the IDF would only withdraw from Lebanon if the Lebanese Army carried out its part of the November deal.

Earlier that month, Israel intensified air campaigns against Hezbollah in Lebanon, in response to escalating rocket attacks by the Iran-backed armed group which had killed civilians, and displaced tens of thousands more from homes in northern Israel.

Eleven people were shot and killed by the Israel Defense Forces in southern Lebanon on Sunday, according to an updated statement from the Lebanese Ministry of Health. Another 83 people were injured, the ministry said.

There is currently no indication of the presence of the hostages. Hamas is expected to release Karina Ariev, 20; Daniella Gilboa, 20; Naama Levy, 20; and Liri Albag, 19. In exchange, Israel will release 200 Palestinians being held in prisons.

Additionally, civilian contractor Liron Yitzhak was mortally wounded in the Strip in May, and Chief Inspector Arnon Zamora, a member of the Israel Border Police’s Yamam National Counter-Terrorism Unit, was fatally wounded during a hostage-rescue mission in Gaza in June.