Staff Sergeant Naveh Leshem, a soldier in the 12th Battalion, Golani Brigade, was killed in battle while fighting in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF announced on Tuesday. Leshem was 20 years old from the West Bank settlement of Nokdim. The soldiers were evacuated to receive medical treatment in hospitals, and their families were notified.

Videos and images verified by NBC News piece together a picture of the deprivation and chaos of Gaza's hospitals.

Iranians say they are caught between their country's regime and Israeli destruction as the conflict intensifies.

On Israel's eastern border with Jordan, the IDF ramped up foot soldiers by about three times what was there beforehand, the military said on Monday.

Domestic and global criticism of the war is growing. So, too, the US president's impatience. Aid supply is chaotic, often deadly. The far right is bent on permanent reoccupation. Netanyahu is preoccupied with his own survival The post As the IDF deepens its hold in Gaza,

IDF targets weapons convoys, UAV cells, and Iranian fighter jets as part of intensified operations; Tehran airport and key military communications hub struck amid efforts to thwart missile threats.

The IDF on Monday published recordings from the operation that retrieved the bodies of hostages Yair Yaakov and Aviv Atzili both from Kibbutz Nir Oz, as operations continued across the Gaza Strip. There are still 53 hostages held by Hamas terrorists in the enclave.

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