🧭 ISRAELI READINESS, JUDEA AND SAMARIA AND GAZA OPERATIONS
🕑 Published: August 14, 2026 · 12:08 AM Israel time
🚢 MILITARY LOGISTICS AND READINESS: The Defense Ministry and IDF completed the unloading at Haifa Port of another cargo ship carrying thousands of tons of military equipment and weaponry, including D9 bulldozers, Humvees, armored JLTVs, Oshkosh trucks and additional equipment for Israel’s ground forces.
The equipment was purchased by the Defense Ministry’s U.S. procurement mission and transported through a joint Defense Ministry-IDF logistics operation. The ministry said the shipments are intended to maintain a continuous supply of vehicles, munitions and equipment and support IDF readiness for all scenarios in both the short and long term.
📍 QUSRA, JALUD AND NORTHERN SAMARIA: Security forces dismantled two illegal outposts in Area B on the outskirts of Qusra and Jalud overnight, confiscating equipment and detaining one Israeli. Following a situational assessment, troops from the IDF’s 51st Battalion were deployed for defensive missions and patrols, with forces positioned in the Qusra area to protect residents and maintain security.
Qusra residents were instructed to remain in their homes, while soldiers were directed not to enter the Palestinian family home near the site where a tent had been evacuated and dismantled. Civil Administration liaison officers remain in contact with local leadership to minimize disruption to residents.
Following riots by Jews in Qusra, the Defense Minister said: “The disturbances and violence are causing very serious damage to our standing among our friends.” U.S. Ambassador in Jerusalem Mike Huckabee said: “Expel the Israeli terrorists from the village of Qusra; there is no justification for such acts.” He later clarified that settlers broadly are not the problem in Judea and Samaria, but that a very small minority is causing significant harm to Palestinian families and to Israel.
Separately, settlement in the community of Ganim in northern Samaria has resumed 20 years after its evacuation, in a move led by Yossi Dagan and Minister Bezalel Smotrich. Smotrich wrote: “We are erasing the disgrace of the expulsion. An Eisenkot-Lieberman-Golan government would evacuate the new communities.”
🚔 JENIN COUNTERTERRORISM OPERATION: Israeli forces captured three wanted Palestinians in Jenin who, according to the IDF, police and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), were suspected of planning a terror attack in the “immediate time-frame.” Police Yamam forces raided a building and apprehended the three following Shin Bet intelligence regarding their location.
🎯 GAZA OPERATIONS: In southern Gaza, IDF troops identified a terrorist who crossed the Yellow Line and approached them in a manner that posed an immediate threat. The troops opened fire to remove the threat, and a hit was identified.
In Khan Yunis, the IDF carried out an airstrike against a company commander in Hamas’s military wing who, according to the military, was planning attacks against Israeli troops. Gazan media reported one person killed in an Israeli strike targeting a motorcycle in the area.
In Gaza City, the IDF, directed by the Shin Bet, eliminated Hamas commander Jamal Mahmoud Abu Kamil, who infiltrated Israeli territory during the October 7 Massacre. The IDF said Abu Kamil advanced attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops throughout the war and in recent months and was eliminated from the air to remove the threat.
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