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Palestinian Hamas terrorists stand guard at a site as Hamas says it continues to search for the bodies of deceased hostages, in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip December 3, 2025. (photo credit: REUTERS/STRINGER) While the IDF’s Southern Command is preparing for the possibility that war against  Hamas  may be necessary to disarm the terrorist organization,  Walla  learned on Friday that the  International Stabilization Force  (ISF), the multinational force created to manage the security and governance situation in the Gaza Strip, has begun to receive military equipment to use in the disarmament efforts. According to sources in the Southern Command, in the past 24 hours, dozens of vehicles, some of which are bulletproof, were transferred to Gaza and handed over to American forces from the ISF’s headquarters in Kiryat Gat.

(ILLUSTRATIVE) AN IDF soldier aiming out of a window in southern Lebanon. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT) An IDF reservist was severely wounded on Thursday during an altercation with a Hezbollah terrorist in Bint Jbail in southern Lebanon, the military announced on Friday morning.  The soldier has been evacuated to the hospital to receive medical treatment, and their family has been notified, the IDF added. Following the incident, the IDF fired on the area to isolate it and remove the threat of any remaining terrorists. 

FOREIGN MINISTER of Iran Abbas Araghchi, and Speaker of Iran Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf with the delegation of Iran at the Lake Lucerne Summit at the Buergenstock resort in Obbuergen, near Lucerne, Switzerland, Sunday, June 21, 2026. (photo credit: Urs Flueeler/Pool via REUTERS) US officials believed Israel may have planned to use the negotiations between the US and Iran as a window of opportunity to kill Iran’s top negotiators, the  New York Times  reported on Thursday.  According to the report, US officials were particularly concerned that Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Iran’s Foreign Minister  Abbas Araghchi  would be targeted during the cease-fire negotiations beginning in April.  While targeting high-level government officials was one of the goals at the start of the war, which began with the joint US-Israeli strikes that killed Supreme Leader  Ali Khamenei , after talks began, US officials feared that any attempt on...

Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan speaks to the reporters at Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Antalya, Turkey, April 19, 2026 (photo credit: REUTERS/UMIT BEKTAS) Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar lashed out at Turkey’s Foreign Minister  Hakan Fidan  late Thursday night, following his comments that Israel was a “burden that humanity can no longer bear” on a TV broadcast. In an interview with CNN Türk, Fidan sharply attacked Israel and called for sanctions to be imposed on it. “No matter which way you look at it, there is no parameter to continue to bear these people,” Fidan exclaimed. “Israel is not only Turkey’s problem, and it is not only President [Recep Tayyip]  Erdogan ’s problem,” the Turkish foreign minister said. “These people have become a burden that humanity can no longer bear. The human conscience cannot bear it, political systems cannot sustain it, and economic systems cannot sustain it either.

US President Donald Trump participates in a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, US, June 24, 2026. (photo credit: REUTERS/Evan Vucci/File Photo) NATO leaders gather next week in Ankara, where Europeans aim to set aside strife with US President  Donald Trump  over Iran and Greenland and show they are stepping up to defend the continent as Washington cuts back on its commitments to the alliance. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte says the gathering next Tuesday and Wednesday will show Europeans are honoring pledges to hike defense spending to deter Russia from any attack, with arms deals worth tens of billions of dollars to be signed. Leaders are also expected to vow to keep funding weapons for  Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion . Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will attend a dinner hosted by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who will also hold bilateral talks with Trump.

Coffins are displayed containing the late Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his family at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque on July 3, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. (photo credit: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) The commander of Khatam al-Anbiya, Ali Abdollahi, threatened Israel and the US against making “any miscalculation” during former Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei's week-long funeral, warning of “harsh and regrettable responses” in the case of an attack in a Friday statement. Khatam al-Anbiya is the Joint Command of Iran's military. Khamenei's funeral is slated to begin on Saturday and is expected to be the largest event in the history of the Islamic Republic. It will span several major cities in Iran and  Iraq , with ceremonies in Tehran, Qom, Mashhad, Najaf, and Karbala.