Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reported a sharp decline in American weapons shipments to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday, following his recent accusations that Washington is withholding military aid.

The U.S.S. Eisenhower Aircraft Carrier Strike Group has reached the Mediterranean Sea from the Red Sea on its way to Virginia but will remain to assist with any developments between Israel and Lebanon, according to Sky News Arabic and The Associated Press. The carrier is currently off the coast of Port Said, Egypt.

The war in Gaza and related cross-border fighting appeared to spread to the European Union on Friday after the Lebanon-based Hezbollah group warned it could target the island of Cyprus, an EU member state, and Israel.

The number of Israeli hostages who are still alive in Gaza following their capture by Hamas on Oct. 7 “could be as low as 50,” the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Thursday, June 20. The WSJ report cites hostage mediators and a US official with knowledge of current intelligence on the issue of Israeli captives in Gaza.

Amid Israel’s ongoing war to destroy Hamas’ terrorist capabilities in Gaza, a senior spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces has stated that the threat posed by Hamas cannot be eliminated because the jihadist group represents an “idea” that cannot be destroyed by military means, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Israel warned late Tuesday of “all-out war” against Lebanon-based Hezbollah despite a visiting adviser of U.S. President Joe Biden trying to prevent such an armed conflict.

In response to escalating tensions along the northern border, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have approved operational plans for an offensive in Lebanon. This move follows Hezbollah broadcasting footage purportedly taken by a surveillance drone over the northern Israeli port city of Haifa, in what appears to be a warning to Israel.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on Monday that it has defeated half of Hamas’s battalions in Rafah, killing at least 550 terrorists. They also destroyed around 200 tunnel shafts and eliminated the terror group’s last major rocket inventory as the operation in Gaza’s southernmost city continued.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed his security cabinet Sunday night that the war cabinet, a small forum created on October 11 to manage the campaigns against Hamas and Hezbollah, has been officially dissolved.

World-renowned Christian speaker and New York Times Best Selling Author Nick Vujicic has been in Israel visiting and encouraging soldiers who were severely wounded fighting in the ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, All Israel News (AIN) reports.

Eight Israeli soldiers have been killed inside Gaza in one of the deadliest recent military setbacks for Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed Saturday.

As the Israel-Hamas war continues into its eighth month, a new poll shows not only that Palestinian support for Hamas has increased both inside the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank, but that this support is now double that of its less extreme rival, Fatah, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.

The Israel Defense Forces announced Monday that more than 19,000 unguided missiles have been launched at Israeli towns and cities since Hamas committed the Oct. 7 genocidal massacre against Israeli civilians and triggered the current war in Gaza, All Arab News (AAN) reports.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken harshly criticized Hamas’s response to Israel’s hostage deal proposal, stating that it included impractical changes and suggesting that if Hamas maintains its current stance, it will be responsible for prolonging the war.

Soon after Israel announced preparations for an anticipated “broader military conflict” with Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Islamic terrorist group launched 160 missiles – its largest single barrage to date – at northern Israel towns on Wednesday morning, Ynet News reports. The particularly large barrage of missiles was launched on the first day of Shavuot (Feast of Weeks), a Biblical holiday celebrated in Israel.