Druze demonstration at Amiad Junction

Fighter jets attacked the area near Ahmed Hussein al-Shara's palace in Damascus last night as a warning for the attacks on the Druze. At the same time, a missile from Yemen was intercepted.

A Gaza "Freedom Flotilla" says it was attacked by an Israeli drone off the coast of Malta overnight. The ship, which planned to "break the Israeli blockade" and reach Gaza, was attacked last night near midnight in international waters, 10 miles off the coast of Malta. Following the drone attack, a hole opened in the ship and it began to sink.

IDF soldier Niv Dayag (ז״ל), 19, from Ramat Hasharon, in the Paratrooper Brigade, was killed in a car accident during operational activity in the Golan Heights.

The IDF says 386 Haredim drafted into the military this week, of which 196 joined as combat soldiers.

Sirens are going off in Israel's north after a ballistic missile was launched from Yemen.

The missile was intercepted

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The Prime Minister's Office says Netanyahu spoke with the spiritual leader of Israel’s Druze community, Sheikh Muafak Tarif, and that Sheikh Tarif thanked Netanyahu “for his directive to act decisively to protect the Druze in Syria in recent days,” including his decision last night to bomb near the presidential complex in Damascus.

The statement added that Sheikh Tarif said Netanyahu’s actions sent a strong message of deterrence to the Syrian regime “regarding Israel's commitment to the Druze community in Syria.”

Netanyahu, according to the statement, told the Sheikh that “he expects the Druze community to respect the law in Israel, as it normally does,” with which the Sheikh agreed.

Speaking to Ben Shapiro about Israel’s 2005 disengagement from Gaza, which he calls “a horrific mistake,” US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says “you can’t see that [footage from Gush Katif] without weeping, because these are Jews that have been rescued from the Holocaust, moved out of their homes, and now at the gunpoint of their own military, removed out of their homes in Gaza.”

Prime Minister's Office: Reports in the Arab media that Israel supposedly rejected the Egyptian proposal presented to it are baseless. Hamas was and remains the obstacle to the deal.

The mobilization of tens of thousands of reserve soldiers was approved in preparation for the expansion of the operation in Gaza. Three missiles from Yemen were intercepted within 24 hours en route to Israel. Report: Trump's national security adviser was fired because he secretly held talks with Netanyahu to coordinate an attack on Iran. Netanyahu denies that the conversation was about that.

*Prime Minister's Office:* In light of developments in the Gaza Strip and Syria, and due to a tight political-security schedule, Prime Minister Netanyahu has decided to postpone his visit to Azerbaijan to a later date. The Prime Minister thanks President Aliyev for his invitation, and appreciates the warm relations between the two countries.

Israeli forces operating in Syria today.

In a statement, the Ministry of Education says that at Netanyahu's request, a strike will be held tomorrow in order to promote an immediate solution to the gaps that have emerged between the Finance Ministry and the Teachers' Union regarding the conditions of employees, and to ensure the stability of the education system.

Permission has been granted to publish the names of two IDF martyrs whose families were notified: Attached are the names of the martyrs: - Captain Noam Ravid, 23, from Shaarei Tikva, an officer in the Yahalam unit, Combat Engineering Corps, fell in battle in the southern Gaza Strip. - Sergeant Yaly Seror, 20, from Omer, a fighter in the Yahalam unit, Combat Engineering Corps, fell in battle in the southern Gaza Strip.

Captain Noam

Yahli

Noam and Yahli were killed in an explosion in Rafah. Another fighter was seriously injured in the incident. Another fighter was seriously injured in another incident in the northern Gaza Strip.