Israel At War Monday December 4

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-The IDF announced the names of three soldiers killed HY"D in Gaza yesterday bringing death toll in Gaza to 78

Eitan Fisch, 23,  Peduel

Yakir Yedidya Schenkolewski, 21, Migdal Oz

 Tuval Yaakov Tsanani, 20 , Kiryat Gat 

- Rav Yitzchok Zilberstein shlita was asked if soldiers fighting on the front in Gaza should light chanukah candles he responded that they should not even if they have a room as it is a sakana and we must faven for them since they are facing barbarians.

- Israel plans to flood Gaza tunnels with seawater WSJ reports Israel has assembled a system of large pumps it could use to flood Hamas’s vast network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip with seawater, a tactic that could destroy the tunnels and drive the fighters from their underground refuge but also threaten Gaza’s water supply, U.S. officials said. The Israel Defense Forces finished assembling large seawater pumps roughly one mile north of the Al-Shati refugee camp around the middle of last month. Each of at least five pumps can draw water from the Mediterranean Sea and move thousands of cubic meters of water per hour into the tunnels, flooding them within weeks.

- Turkey warned Israel of "serious consequences" if it tries to hunt down Hamas members living outside Palestinian territories, including in Turkey, a Turkish intelligence official said on Monday.

- Hamas Nearly Hit Israeli Nukes - NYT "A rocket most likely fired by Hamas militants during their Oct. 7 attack on Israel struck an Israeli military base where, experts say, many of the country’s nuclear-capable missiles are based, according to a visual analysis of the attack’s aftermath by The New York Times.

- Several hamas commanders eliminated in Khan Younis

 

- The U.S. government is making a full-court press to persuade Israel and Hamas to resume negotiations after a nearly seven-day truce ended last week, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said Sunday.

- John Kirby said the American intelligence community had no indication of the Hamas attack on Israel. This comes after a NYT article claiming that Israel officials were in possession of the Hamas specific attack plan a year prior. 

- The IDF says “fierce battles” are taking place between troops and Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip in the last few hours. 

- Yesterday troops entered a building where Hamas terrorists  opened fire at them killing 2 soldiers had. The terrorists were eliminated.

- Dozens of tanks seen approaching Khan Younis section of Gaza

 Rocket barrage fired at central Israel and southern Gaza border communities 

Israel targeted 200 Hamas locations in Gaza last night destroying terrorist infrastructure that was in a school in the north of Gaza.

- Israel issues severe travel warnings to dozens of countries amid rising antisemitism

National Security Council urges citizens to reconsider nonessential travel, upgrading threat warnings in UK, Germany, France, Australia, among other countries

The Kfir Infantry Brigade is operating in the Gaza Strip it has discovered some 30 Hamas tunnel shafts and directed around 100 artillery strikes against the terror group’s sites.