Day 450 - ToI reports from semi-permanent IDF bases inside Gaza

Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute
audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and
the Jewish world.


Military reporter Emanuel Fabian joins host
Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's show.


Some 240 suspected terror operatives were detained during the
operation against Hamas at northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital,
including the medical center’s director and 15 terrorists who
participated in the October 7, 2023, onslaught on southern
Israel. Fabian sheds light on the operation, which involved the
Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit.


Israeli air defenses on Saturday intercepted two rockets fired
from Gaza’s Beit Hanoun toward the Jerusalem area, an
increasingly rare occurrence after nearly 15 months of war. The
IDF said both rockets were successfully intercepted, with no
injuries or damage reported. Overnight, Israeli fighter jets
struck the launchers used by the Palestinian terrorists. We hear
what surprised Fabian about this rocket attack.


Air defenses intercepted a missile fired from Yemen that
triggered sirens in the Jerusalem, southern West Bank and Dead
Sea areas early Saturday morning, the military said, in the sixth
such overnight attack on the center of the country in less than
two weeks. Along with Israel's defense array, the Thaad system
was used for the second time, after its use early Friday morning.
Fabian explains how it complements Israel's air defense systems.


Fabian was deep in the Gaza Strip last week and writes that
everything the Israel Defense Forces has established in the
Netzarim Corridor is reportedly temporary, "But the reality on
the ground in this zone bisecting the Gaza Strip indicates that
the IDF will remain here for the foreseeable future." In the
second half of the program, we discuss the massive zone and the
more than a dozen small military outposts stationed there.


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ongoing live blog.


Discussed articles include:


IDF completes raid on north Gaza hospital, says some 240
terror suspects arrested


IDF intercepts rare 2 long-range rockets fired from Gaza
at Jerusalem area


IDF downs missile from Yemen as sirens blare in
Jerusalem, Dead Sea area


In Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor, IDF establishes temporary
bases for an indefinite stay


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IMAGE: Inside an IDF forward operating base in the Netzarim
Corridor in the central Gaza Strip, December 26, 2024. (Emanuel
Fabian/Times of Israel)


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