U.S. Army leaders say the deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel and roughly 100 soldiers to operate it will add to already difficult strains on the Army’s air defense forces and potential delays in modernizing its missile defense systems.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the Biden administration he is willing to strike military rather than oil or nuclear facilities in Iran, suggesting a more limited counterstrike aimed at preventing a full-scale war.
The United States has provided Israel with billions of dollars’ worth of security assistance and weapons over the past year since it began retaliating for Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack. In addition, the Biden administration has deployed the U.S. military in direct support of Israel.
A single drone, which evaded Israel’s aerial defense system, hit a mess hall at a military training camp deep inside Israel, killing four soldiers. It was the latest achievement for Hezbollah’s drone fleet and has shined a light on Israel’s struggle over the past year of war to knock down drones incoming from as far away as Yemen, Iraq and Iran.
An Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in northern Lebanon on Monday, killing at least 21 people, according to the Lebanese Red Cross.
A new phase of the war may be underway, as hopes for a cease-fire and deal to release the remaining hostages in Hamas captivity wane.
The Israel Defense Forces brought a small group of journalists into the southwestern corner of Lebanon on Sunday to show what commanders described as extensive and entrenched militant infrastructure.
Damage to private property from Iran’s recent missile barrage on Israel amounted to $40 million to $53 million, according to figures provided by Israel’s tax authority, making it the most costly since the start of war a year ago.
The U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon said that Israeli tanks “forcibly entered” one of their positions early Sunday, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded they leave the area.
The United States will send a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery and troops to Israel, the Pentagon said Sunday, even as Iran warned Washington to keep American military forces out of Israel.