Israel At War Thurs Dec 19

 Israel at war day 440

- Pentagon: We believe Israel's military incursion into Syria is "temporary" and "should be temporary."

- Hostsge deal update: In the past 24 hours, further progress has been made on several previously controversial issues. Israeli source: “We are at the final stage; within days, we will know whether we will make a deal or not.”

The warhead from the ballistic missle fired from Yemen directly hit the school in Ramat Gan.” bh there were no children there as it was in middlebof the night the building will have to be replaced.

-Netanyahu was set to hold a high-level meeting on Thursday with top security officials as efforts to reach a hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas appeared to gather momentum

- Debris from interceptors fired at an incoming Houthi missile is found outside the Knesset in Jerusalem even though no sirens sounded in the city during the attack. The debris did not cause damage or injuries and were removed by police sappers.

- IDF strike last night in Yemen:  to paralyze all three Houthi ports in Yemen.

In the attack, the Air Force destroyed all the tugboats that brought ships into the ports. After previously destroying the cranes in the port of Hodeidah - now destroying the tugboats will further paralyze the ability to transfer weapons from Iran to them.

Dozens of bombs were dropped on targets in the port of Hodeidah, the port of Ras Issa, and the port of A-Salif. In the ports, the tugboats that brought the ships to the port were attacked, which impeded their ability to bring tankers and merchant ships to all their ports.Two targets in Sana'a were also attacked - fuel and oil tanks and a power plant.

In total, five targets were attacked throughout Yemen; each target included dozens of components. 

- Netanyahu: "The Houthis are learning and will learn the hard way, that whoever harms Israel pays a hefty price for it."

 - IDF Northern Command Commander Uri Gordin: “Hezbollah planned to fire more than 15,000 rockets in the first two days of the war - it didn't happen because we damaged its capabilities to realize it. We damaged more than 2,000 Radwan fighters, who can’t fight anymore.