JERUSALEM (VINnews) — BDE: Sergeant Major (res.) Noam Shemesh, 21 years old and a squad commander in the Shimshon Battalion of the Kfir Brigade, was killed in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF said on Sunday. Sgt.

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Pipelines and transmission infrastructure at Israel’s largest oil refinery in Haifa were damaged in the Iranian missile attack on northern Israel late Motzei Shabos, the BAZAN group oil refinery company reported to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on Sunday morning. B’Chasdei Hashem, there are no reports of casualties in the attack. Bazan stated that despite the damage, the oil refining units are still operating. However, several other facilities at the site are currently shut down due to the damage they sustained. During the barrage of about 40 missiles on the Haifa area, one scored a direct hit on a three-level home in the nearby Arab city of Tamra, killing four women in the same family. (YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)

The Israeli Air Force struck Iranian ballistic missile launchers, air defense systems, and radars overnight, some of which were used in attacks on Israel. The IDF says it will continue targeting such sites to prevent further threats. Around 80 targets were hit in Tehran, including nuclear-related sites and military fuel depots. In total, the IDF says 170 strikes have hit 720 assets across Iran since early Friday.

The airstrikes by Israeli F-35 fighter jets on Iran overnight Thursday appeared to be the initial launch of Israel’s war on Iran. However, the airstrikes were preempted by internal attacks carried out by covert teams on the ground using drones that were smuggled into the Islamic Republic part by part over months. Israel smuggled parts of hundreds of quadcopter drones rigged with explosives into Iran—in suitcases, trucks, and shipping containers, the Wall Street Journal reported. Munitions that could be fired from unmanned platforms were also smuggled in, said people familiar with the operation. The Mossad brought in the drones and munitions through commercial channels via usually unwitting business partners.

A drone, reportedly launched from Iran, was shot down by the Israeli Air Force over the Arava region in southern Israel a short time ago, following sirens that sounded in several nearby towns.

Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon spoke to the press about the frightening plot Iran was planning against Israel, triggering Israel’s attack on Iran. Israeli intelligence uncovered a secret program by Iran to eliminate the Jewish state, which in recent months became more tangible as the Islamic Republic was on the verge of obtaining nuclear power. Iran was plotting a surprise attack on Israel in coordination with their proxies. While tens of thousands of terrorists would invade Israel from all sides in a massive October 7-style attack, Iran would launch a nuclear strike and fire thousands of ballistic missiles. “Israel cannot and will not wait for that moment to arrive,” Danon asserted.

Search and recovery teams continued scouring the site of one of India’s worst aviation disasters for a third day after the Air India flight fell from the sky and killed at least 270 people in Gujarat state, officials said Saturday. The London-bound Boeing 787 struck a medical college hostel in a residential area of the northwestern city of Ahmedabad minutes after takeoff Thursday, killing 241 people on board and at least 29 on the ground. One passenger survived. Recovery teams working until late Friday found at least 25 more bodies in the debris, officials said. Dr. Dhaval Gameti at the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad told The Associated Press the facility had received 270 bodies, adding that the lone surviving passenger was still under observation for some of his wounds.