Israel At War Thursday May 8

Israel at war day 580

- 2 IDF soldiers killed in Gaza 4 injured

Yishai Elyakim Urbach 20,  from Zichron Yaakov

Yam Frid, 21, from Saalit

- US Ambassador Mike Huckabee: US ‘isn’t required to get permission from Israel’ to cut deal with Houthis. Amid shock in Israel at Trump’s deal with Yemeni terror group, ambassador indicates in TV interview that US will only respond to Houthi attacks on Israel if American citizens hurt.

- Yisrael Hayom reports that Trump might announce a Gaza deal this weekend to end the war. According to the article, Israel will only be part of the deal, and many aspects of it will not be suitable for Israel, mainly the part that Hamas will disarm but will be allowed to stay in Gaza and join the future Gaza government and police

- Reports of several soldiers injured in Gaza

- Official says 3 hostages whose fate is in doubt are two foreigners, one Israeli

- Trump drops Biden’s demand that Saudis recognize Israel in nuclear deal with US — sources The United States is no longer demanding Saudi Arabia normalize ties with Israel as a condition for progress on civil nuclear cooperation talks, two sources with knowledge of the matter tell Reuters ahead of US President Donald Trump’s visit next week.

- The IDF says it has set up a medical facility inside southern Syria, next to the Druze village of Hader, to treat those wounded during sectarian violence in the country.

 - Op-Ed by Amit Segal in the Wall Street Journal titled "Trump's Blunders Put Israel at Risk." It reinforces the idea that while Trump's rhetoric regarding Israel receives high marks, his actions often contradict his words, and put Israel at risk in the Middle east

- Israel threatened Yemen’s Houthi rebels with “heavy” military strikes and warned the group’s Iranian sponsors that they would suffer the same fate as other regional foes of Israel if attacks on the country did not halt.

Speaking two days after the United States announced that it had reached a ceasefire with the Yemeni terror group, Defense Minister Israel Katz called for Israel to be capable of defending itself even if deprived of American support, as some Israeli officials privately expressed concerns over the ramifications of the US deal.

-Israel Air Force attacked Hezbollah military compound in Nabatiya that included tunnels, weapons, and anti-tank missiles

- Emily Damari, who was released from Hamas captivity, published an angry letter to members of the Pulitzer Prize committee following the awarding of the prize to Musaab Abu Tuha, whom she said "denied my kidnapping and the murder of the Bibas family - this is collaboration with atrocity deniers"

-New York Police Department announced that it had arrested at least 78 pro-Hamas terrorists who had barricaded themselves in the campus library at Columbia University