Israel At War December 1

 Israel at war day 422

- An Iranian flight suspected to be ferrying arms to Hezbollah was blocked by the Israeli Air Force over Syria overnight between Saturday and Sunday, The Times of Israel has learned.

IAF fighter jets flew up to the Iranian plane over Syria and ordered it to turn around, and it did a short while later.

- As Israel and mediating countries have been working to formulate a new framework for a potential hostage-ceasefire deal in Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to convene a security discussion on the topic on Sunday evening. The meeting was set to begin at 8:00 p.m.

- Israel President Herzog: "There are negotiations behind the scenes for a hostage deal - and it is possible."

- The IDF warns some of the abductees are starving. Fear of danger to life  Major General Nitzan Alon warned the political echelon in the last few days with these words: "The assessments are growing with us about the deteriorating situation of the abductees, including the starvation of some of them. There is a problem with accessibility to groceries on the Strip. I can tell you that some of the abductees are in a severe medical condition; some of them, we can say, are in danger of 

-IDF says paratroopers killed armed Hezbollah operatives in south Lebanon

- Moshe Ya’alon tells Channel 12 that he will not apologize for his comments accusing Israel of carrying out “ethnic cleansing” in the northern Gaza Strip, and counters the oft-repeated statement that the IDF is “the most moral army in the world.”

- Syrian military says dozens of soldiers killed in major Islamist attack on Aleppo

Assad’s army says preparing response; intel chiefs reportedly tell Netanyahu rebels’ advances in Syria spell short-term benefits, potential trouble for Israel; US monitoring situation

- Minister Smotrich confirms that the Cabinet has decided that Israel will not allow Hezbollah to rebuild the terrorist infrastructure and the houses that the IDF destroyed on the northern border—that is, that a de facto buffer zone will be established