🇮🇱 MILITARY SHIPMENT ARRIVES; OPERATIONS IN JUDEA AND SAMARIA, GAZA, LEBANON; MOSSAD AIDS VIENNA SEARCH
🕑 Published: August 13, 2026 · 6:32 PM Israel time
🚢 THOUSANDS OF TONS OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT ARRIVE: The Defense Ministry and IDF completed the unloading of another cargo ship at Haifa Port 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 to Israel in a joint logistics operation involving the Defense Ministry and multiple IDF branches. The ministry said the shipments are part of ongoing efforts to maintain a continuous supply of vehicles, munitions and equipment and support IDF readiness for all scenarios in both the short and long term.
📍 ILLEGAL OUTPOSTS DISMANTLED NEAR QUSRA AND JALUD: Overnight, security forces dismantled two illegal outposts in Area B on the outskirts of Qusra and Jalud and confiscated equipment at the sites. One Israeli was detained.
Following a situational assessment, IDF troops from the 51st Battalion were deployed overnight for defensive missions and patrols. Since this morning, troops have been 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 operate inside the Palestinian family home near the site where a tent had been evacuated and dismantled. Civil Administration liaison officers remain in ongoing contact with Qusra’s local leadership to minimize disruption to residents’ daily lives.
Following the riots by Jews in Qusra, the Defense Minister said: “The disturbances and violence are causing very serious damage to our standing among our friends.”
🇮🇱 SETTLEMENT RESUMES IN GANIM AFTER 20 YEARS: Settlement in the community of Ganim in northern Samaria has resumed, 20 years after its evacuation. The move was 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.”
❌ THREE SUSPECTED OF PLANNING IMMINENT TERROR ATTACK CAPTURED IN JENIN: Israeli forces captured three wanted Palestinians in Jenin overnight 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 whereabouts.
⚔️ IDF RESPONDS TO THREAT IN SOUTHERN GAZA: Yesterday, IDF troops operating in the southern Gaza Strip identified a terrorist who crossed the Yellow Line and approached the troops in a manner that posed an immediate threat. The troops opened fire to remove the threat, and a hit was identified.
🎯 HAMAS COMPANY COMMANDER STRUCK IN KHAN YUNIS: Earlier today, the IDF carried out an airstrike against a company commander in Hamas’s military wing in the Khan Yunis area. According to the IDF, the terrorist was planning attacks against Israeli troops operating in Gaza and was struck to remove the threat.
Gazan media reported one person killed in an Israeli strike targeting a motorcycle in Khan Yunis.
❌ HEZBOLLAH WEAPONS AND BOOBY-TRAPPED STRUCTURE FOUND IN SOUTHERN LEBANON: The IDF continues counterterrorism operations in the Security Zone in southern Lebanon. Yesterday, during an operation in the Mrah el Aaqbe area, troops located and dismantled a booby-trapped structure belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization.
Troops also located RPG rockets and additional weapons.
🛰️ MOSSAD ASSISTING SEARCH IN VIENNA: Austrian media report that Mossad is assisting in the search for two missing Israeli women in Vienna.
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