Israel At War Thursday May 16

 Israel at war day 223

- Reporter Ehud Yaari: Since the beginning of the Gaza War, Hamas has made half a billion dollars from the humanitarian aid brought into Gaza by truck!  

- Hezbollah drones strike Israel: One hits an IDF Air Force base, another wounds three soldiers as fighting heats up in the North

- US military completes installation of Gaza pier, says aid to start flowing within days

- The US military has finished installing a floating pier for the Gaza Strip, the US Central Command says, with officials poised to begin ferrying humanitarian aid into the enclave via the sea.

- The IDF has uncovered a huge weapons cache at the UNRWA school in Rafah

- A reservist soldier was killed earlier today in an “operational accident” on the border with the Gaza Strip. He is named as Ran Yavetz, 39,from Modiin. bringing Gaza death toll to 279

- Both of Israel's chief rabbis, Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and Rabbi David Lau, told the public to listen to security force instructions and not go to Mount Meron on the holiday of Lag Ba’omer this year in light of the security situation, Israeli media announced on Thursday afternoon. 

- Five Israeli soldiers were killed and another seven were wounded, including three seriously, in an incident of so-called friendly fire in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya yesterday,bringing the death toll in Gaza op to 278.

Roy Beit Yaakov, 22, from Eli

Gilad Arye Boim, 22, from Karnei Shomron

Daniel Chemu, 20, from Teveria

Ilan Cohen, 20, from Karmiel

Betzlel David Shashuah, 21, from Tel Aviv

According to an initial IDF probe, a tank operating alongside the paratroopers in the Jabaliya camp fired two shells at a building where they were gathered at around 7 p.m.

The tank forces had later identified a gun barrel from one of the windows of the building and believed it was enemy forces, leading them to fire two shells.