In a highly unusual and disturbing incident, a two-week-old Israeli infant was abducted from the neonatal unit of Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital in Yerushalayim and later found abandoned in a hotel in Yericho, within Palestinian Authority territory.
According to details released by authorities, the baby’s mother, an Israeli Jewish woman, removed her child from the hospital’s neonatal ward and traveled with him to Yericho. Upon arrival, she checked into a local hotel, where she left the infant alone in one of the rooms before fleeing.

A man in his twenties was critically injured on Thursday afternoon in a stabbing attack at the Rami Levy complex at the Gush Etzion junction. His death was determined shortly later, at the scene. The two terrorists who carried out the attack were neutralized at the scene by security forces. An initial investigation reveals that the two terrorists arrived at the shopping area armed with knives and attacked an Israeli security guard. They stabbed him severely and managed to take his gun. MDA teams tried to save his life without success. Large forces from the Yehuda and Shomron district, together with IDF forces and emergency forces, are at the scene and are working to treat the wounded and search for additional suspects. This is a developing story. (YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)

Dozens of terrorists were killed and over 130 “terror infrastructures,” both above and below ground were demolished by troops of the Golani Brigade during operations in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis in the past week.

Hamas has rejected Israel’s most recent proposal laying out the scope of the Israeli military’s partial retreat from Gaza during the proposed 60-day ceasefire, according to a Palestinian source who spoke with The Times of Israel.
Under diplomatic pressure from the United States, Israel revised its original maps and presented a new version earlier this week. The updates focused on scaling back the IDF’s deployment, particularly around the Morag Corridor, a zone near the location where Israel plans to construct a disputed “humanitarian city.”