The 139th Battalion, closed down in 2021 after 53 years of service, has been reconstituted as part of a general effort to beef up Israeli aerial defense.

In the videos distributed by the terrorist organization, it is claimed that drones that infiltrated Israel identified the battery during launches towards Kiryat Shmona. 

The aim of a European defense system of this kind would be to help defend against the increasing Russian threat.

An unusual event in the north as rocket sirens are sounded in Rechasim and Ivtin, two villages near the refineries of Haifa Bay. 

Israel has greatly ramped up its orders from local military industries, with a heavy emphasis on ammunition and systems for intercepting aerial projectiles, according to a report by Calcalist.

A passenger plane made a landing as missiles were intercepted by the Iron Dome near Israel. Watch the dramatic documentation.

Two Tel Aviv residents who left the protected area before the time specified in the instructions almost paid for it with their lives, when a huge fragment of a rocket landed a few centimeters from them. View the documentation.

Magen David Adom and the Israel Firefighting and Rescue Service are conducting searches of areas of reported rocket hits in Ashkelon. Two women are reported lightly injured.

The IDF publishes data on the number of rockets fired at Israel. In the first 4 hours of the war, Hamas fired 3,000 rockets and has since tripled the numbers. About a thousand rockets landed in PA territories. Two thousand were intercepted.

Red color sirens were heard in the areas of Tel Aviv, Petach Tikvah, Ramat Gan, and northward to Kfar Saba, Raanana, and Herzliyah. No casualties have been reported.

Iron Dome intercepted an unmanned aerial vehicle in the north of the Gaza Strip, this is the second day in a row that Iron Dome has intercepted an unmanned aerial vehicle in Gaza. No red alarms were heard