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☆ Israel says Houthis seize ship in Red Sea, no Israelis among owners or crew
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

JERUSALEM, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Israel said on Sunday that Yemen's Houthis had seized a British-owned and Japanese-operated cargo ship in the southern Red Sea, describing the incident as an "Iranian act of terrorism" with consequences for international maritime security. Last week, the Houthi leader said his forces would make further attacks on Israel and they could target Israeli ships in the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said a ship - which it did not name - had been seized, and stressed that Israel was not involved in its ownership, operation or the make-up of its international crew. The Israeli military said in an earlier statement the ship seizure took place in the Red Sea. Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Jane Merriman and Hugh LawsonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Israel, Yemen's Houthis, Benjamin Netanyahu's, Dan Williams, Jane Merriman, Hugh Lawson Organizations: U.S . Defense, Thomson Locations: British, Tehran, Israel, Gaza, Mandeb, belligerence, Red

☆ Israel to amend budget, Gaza war direct cost at $246 mln daily
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/2] Israeli soldiers stand guard and look at a fire that was caused when a rocket that was launched from Gaza landed in southern Israel, October 24, 2023. Smotrich described the S&P downward revision from "stable" published on Tuesday as "alarmist" and said he did not anticipate major Israeli deficits despite the crisis. He praised Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron, who was due to have stepped down but extended his tenure due to the crisis, for "functioning above and beyond". But Smotrich would not be drawn on whether Yaron should be formally kept in office. Writing by Dan Williams Editing by Bernadette BaumOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Violeta Santos Moura, Bezalel Smotrich, Smotrich, Amir Yaron, Dan Williams, Bernadette Baum Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Israeli, Army Radio, Bank of Israel, Thomson Locations: Gaza, Israel

The strike killed hundreds of people and occurred during Israel's intense 11-day bombing campaign in Gaza. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said "barbaric terrorists" in Gaza had attacked the hospital, not Israel's military. News of the hospital strike and high death toll prompted condemnation from many countries on the eve of U.S. President Joseph Biden's visit to Israel. Earlier on Tuesday the United Nations said an Israeli strike had hit one of its schools where at least 4,000 people were sheltering. [1/4]An injured person is assisted at Shifa Hospital after hundreds of Palestinians were killed in a blast at Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza that Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed on each other in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023.

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☆ Israel Fires Back After Syrian Shells Land in Israeli Territory -Military
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: 1 min

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops fired artillery and mortar shells toward Syria on Tuesday after a number of shells launched from its northern neighbour landed in open areas on Israeli territory, Israel's military said. A source in southern Syria said a Palestinian faction had fired three rockets toward Israel. The development raises fears the violence could lead to a wider war, as Israel trades cross-border salvoes with Lebanon's Hezbollah and battles Hamas militants in Gaza. The military said its soldiers had fired "toward the origin of the launching in Syria". (Reporting by Emily Rose and Rami Ayyub; Editing by Leslie Adler and Jonathan Oatis)

Persons: Emily Rose, Rami Ayyub, Leslie Adler, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Palestinian Locations: JERUSALEM, Syria, Israel, Gaza

☆ Israel fires back after Syrian shells land in Israeli territory -military
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

JERUSALEM, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Israeli troops fired artillery and mortar shells toward Syria on Tuesday after a number of shells launched from its northern neighbour landed in open areas on Israeli territory, Israel's military said. A source in southern Syria said a Palestinian faction had fired three rockets toward Israel. The development raises fears the violence could lead to a wider war, as Israel trades cross-border salvoes with Lebanon's Hezbollah and battles Hamas militants in Gaza. The military said its soldiers had fired "toward the origin of the launching in Syria". Reporting by Emily Rose and Rami Ayyub; Editing by Leslie Adler and Jonathan OatisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Emily Rose, Rami Ayyub, Leslie Adler, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: Palestinian, Thomson Locations: Syria, Israel, Gaza

☆ Israel retaliates after Hamas attacks, deaths pass 1,100
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-09 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +10 min

Israeli military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus said the country had called in around 100,000 soldiers. Iran is an ally of Hamas and while it congratulated Hamas on the attack, its mission to the United Nations said Tehran was not involved in the attacks. Several international air carriers have suspended flight services with Tel Aviv in light of the Hamas attack, saying they are waiting for conditions to improve before resuming. In Gaza, Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem condemned the U.S. announcement as "an actual participation in the aggression against our people" and said the group would not be intimidated. The United States led Western denunciations of Hamas' attack, with Biden issuing a blunt warning to Iran and others on : "This is not a moment for any party hostile to Israel to exploit these attacks."

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☆ The war in Ukraine is pushing Russia away from its WWII-style artillery strategy, and experts say it's 'a concerning trend'
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-07 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Russia and Ukraine have relied heavily on artillery to batter each other's forces. AdvertisementAdvertisement"This is a concerning trend, as over time it will likely significantly improve Russian artillery," write the report's authors, Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds. Russian artillery doctrine is still largely based on extensive analysis of World War II data to determine how many shells were needed to achieve a specific effect. REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev"First, Russian forces lack the ammunition to sustain this volume of fire," the RUSI report said. According to the RUSI report, Russia continues "to rely heavily" on multiple-launch rockets, 120-mm mortars, and "other imprecise systems," and "corner-cutting in the production of its munitions is becoming apparent."

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☆ Video shows a Ukrainian drone slam into a Russian thermobaric rocket launcher, triggering a massive explosion
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A new video shows a Ukrainian drone hitting a Russian thermobaric rocket launcher. Zaitseve, Donetsk Oblast, a Ukrainian FPV loitering munition hits the launcher of a Russian TOS-1 MRL. The consequence of an RPG-sized warhead hitting roughly 24 MO.1.01.04 220mm thermobaric rockets isn't surprising. Host photo agency/Ramil Sitdikov via REUTERSIt's not the first time Ukraine has touted the destruction of a TOS-1 rocket launcher. Back in February, Kyiv shared a video of an reported destruction of a Russian thermobaric rocket launcher in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.

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☆ After Ukraine's success with US-made HIMARS, European militaries are looking for their own rocket artillery
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Other European countries are pursuing their own rocket artillery, buying HIMARS or building new systems. Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesMultiple launch rocket systems have been around since World War II, when the legendary Soviet Katyusha battered Nazi forces. But Russia adapted and moved its command and supply centers out of HIMARS range, though at the price of compromising some efficiency. Rocket artillery can't replace howitzers, which offer some advantages, such as the ability to fire barrages continuously for hours. Still, rocket artillery is certain to join howitzers as the backbone of Western artillery.

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☆ Ukraine told to investigate its military use of banned 'butterfly' antipersonnel mines in war with Russia, says human rights group
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Nathan Rennolds | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Human Rights Watch told Ukraine to investigate its military's use of banned "butterfly" mines. It called for Ukraine to investigate the use of PFM-1 antipersonnel mines in Izium in 2022. It cites photos showing debris from Uragan 9M27K3 rockets carrying antipersonnel mines. The group had called for Ukraine to investigate the use of Russian-made PFM-1 antipersonnel mines around the eastern Ukrainian city of Izium between April and September 2022. HRW said it had unearthed more evidence that Ukraine used the banned mines in 2022 and has informed the Ukrainian government.

Persons: —, Forbes, Steve Goose Organizations: Rights Watch, Service, HRW, Human Rights Locations: Ukraine, Izium, Ukrainian, Russia, Afghanistan

☆ From rockets to recruitment, Israel's military refocuses on AI
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

For the next flare-up, Colonel Eli Birenbaum, chief of the military's operational data and applications unit, has plans to use artificial intelligence aggregation to predict the salvoes. Currently, he said, there are "many hundreds" of personnel dealing broadly with AI-related projects, and who constitute 20% of military technologists. He has government backing, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu increasing the defence budget and pledging to make Israel an AI "powerhouse". During their mandatory service - two years for women, 32 months for men - military technologists earn a monthly $335. For Israel, AI target-acquisition will not spell automated target-destruction, Birenbaum stressed.

Persons: Nir Elias RAMAT, Eli Birenbaum, Birenbaum, Benjamin Netanyahu, Dan Williams, Supantha Mukherjee, Nick Macfie Organizations: IDF, REUTERS, Reuters, Google, Thomson Locations: Ramat Gan, Israel, Gaza, Tel Aviv

☆ In pictures: Turkey's landmark elections
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-12 | by ( Jillian Kumagai | ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Israel killed the head of Islamic Jihad's rocket force and his deputy, pressing an operation that has cost 30 lives in Gaza including women and children, while Palestinian cross-border rocket salvoes inflicted a first fatality in Israel on Thursday.

Summary Death of Palestinian hunger striker triggered fightingPalestinian militants fired rockets at IsraelIsraeli jets struck in GazaJewish Power party calls Israel's response 'weak'Adnan had been on hunger strike for 87 daysGAZA/JERUSALEM, May 3 (Reuters) - A truce along the Israel-Gaza border appeared to be holding on Wednesday morning following a brief bout of fighting triggered by the death of a jailed Palestinian hunger striker. Adnan had been on hunger strike for 87 days as he awaited trial on security charges. Palestinian leaders accused Israel of causing the death of Adnan, the first Palestinian hunger striker to die in Israeli custody in more than 30 years. In Gaza, armed Palestinian factions including Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the rocket salvoes fired towards Israel, where one person was seriously injured. [1/5] Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli air strike, in Deir al-Balah town in the central Gaza Strip, May 3.

Salvoes of rockets from Lebanon and Gaza struck north and south in Israel over the past day and the Israeli military replied with air strikes. Palestinian militant group Hamas, which rules Gaza, praised the shooting attack but stopped short of claiming responsibility. [1/3] Israeli troops stand guard at a shooting attack scene in the Jordan Valley, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank April 7,2023. With the international-led peace process long moribund, Palestinians' hopes of creating an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza, with East Jerusalem as its capital, have faded. Israel's new hard-right government is set on expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank and includes members who rule out a Palestinian state.

☆ Israel reinforces troops after violence along Lebanon, Gaza borders
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

JERUSALEM/GAZA, April 7 (Reuters) - Israel reinforced troops near its borders with Lebanon and Gaza on Friday following a flare-up in violence that threatened to spiral out of control after police raids this week on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. [1/4] Smoke and flames rise during Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, April 7, 2023. Before noon on Friday, however, Israel's military said residents near the Gaza frontier no longer needed to keep close to bomb shelters. "Who wants war? No one, but also we can’t stand these brutal assaults on worshippers in Al-Aqsa," he said.

☆ Israeli strikes target Hamas in Lebanon and Gaza after rocket attack
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

GAZA CITY - Flames rise from the area after Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes on the central part of the Gaza Strip, on April 07, 2023. "We strongly condemn the blatant Zionist aggression against Lebanon in the vicinity of Tyre at dawn today," Hamas said. The strikes came in response to rocket attacks from Lebanon towards northern Israeli areas, which Israeli officials blamed on Hamas. As the Israeli jets struck in Gaza, salvoes of rockets were fired in response and sirens sounded in Israeli towns and cities in bordering areas. An Israeli military spokesman said the Israeli operation was over for the moment.

[1/4] Israeli policemen stand next to smoke from a fire following incoming rockets from Lebanon to Israel in Bezet, northern Israel, April 6, 2023. The Israeli military said 34 rockets were launched from Lebanon, of which 25 were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome, anti-missile system. There was no claim of responsibility but an Israeli military official also said that Israel was working on the assumption that the attack was Palestinian-linked. "It's not Hezbollah shooting, but it's hard to believe that Hezbollah didn't know about it," Tamir Hayman, a former head of Israeli military intelligence said on Twitter. In response, Israel has hit targets in Gaza linked to Hamas, which it holds responsible for any attacks from the blockaded coastal strip.

☆ Zelenskiy urges speedy help from allies as Russia pounds Ukraine's east
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Pavel Polityuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Much of Russia's artillery fire was focused on Bakhmut, a bombed-out city in Donetsk province and a principal target for President Vladimir Putin. Zelenskiy said Russia was in a hurry to achieve as much as it could with its latest push before Ukraine and its allies could gather strength. Speed saves people's lives, speed brings back security, and I thank all our partners who realize that speed is important." Russian forces had made incremental progress in their assault on Bahkmut, White House spokesperson John Kirby said. Wagner head Yevgeny Prigozhin said Russian forces would not be able to capture the town anytime soon.

☆ US pilots are testing the aging A-10 Warthog for a new kind of mission against more advanced enemies
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

A US Air Force crew chief prepares to launch an A-10 for Green Flag-West in California on November 9. Samara TaylorFor years, the Air Force has sought to scrap the Warthog, believing the aging plane might not survive against modern Russian and Chinese air defenses. (Congress finally relented this month, allowing the Air Force to begin retiring A-10s in the coming year.) Since 1981, the Air Force has used the exercise to train to provide air support to Army units. US Air Force Capt.

☆ As North Korea flexes its military muscles, some of South Korea's best submarines may be sidelined
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Nine of South Korea's submarines have defects that could sideline them for extended periods. The issue comes to light as North Korea launches scores of missiles in shows of force to its neighbors. South Korea's sub woes come as North Korea continues to issue threats over joint US-South Korean military exercises that Pyongyang claims are a rehearsal for an invasion. Aircraft in particular would be key to destroying North Korean nuclear sites, artillery emplacements, and even decapitation strikes against the North's leaders. Superior US and South Korean naval capabilities — perhaps assisted by Japanese forces — allow for amphibious landings, special-forces raids, blockades, and shore bombardment.

☆ Two villages relish partial power as Ukraine faces blackouts
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-19 | by ( Jonathan Landay | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterLymany and Lupareve have not been spared the fighting that has convulsed countless other Ukrainian villages, towns, and cities. But their power supply means that residents who had earlier fled the village are returning. 'WE HAVE ENOUGH'The earlier fighting left the villages without power and water, prompting the flight of all but 216 of Lymany’s 4,000 residents and 36 of Lupareve’s 1,200 residents, Panashiy said. But three weeks ago, Ukrainian troops restored power to the villages via a cable they laid to a distant factory, villagers said. But red aircraft warning lights blinked unceasingly on the towers, Panashiy said, providing Russian gunners with aiming points.

☆ Russia’s Air Attacks in Ukraine Have Little Strategic Value
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( Stephen Fidler | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russia’s assault Monday with dozens of missile strikes on Ukrainian cities and their electricity infrastructure showed Moscow’s ability to hit targets across the entire country. But it also made clear the limits of such tactics in advancing Russia’s war aims. Ukraine said its air defenses had intercepted roughly half of the 83 missiles that Russia fired in salvoes, a number that couldn’t be independently verified. Authorities said 11 people were killed in the strikes and more than 80 injured as missiles hit apartment blocks, power stations and other targets.

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