Israel Brief: Monday, November 24

Hezbollah’s war cabinet just lost its brain in Dahieh, Hamas is starving underground in Rafah, and inside Israel the fight over who tells the truth about October 7 is finally out in the open.

Shalom, friends.

The war has clearly changed phase, even if the paperwork hasn’t caught up. In the north, Israel killed Hezbollah’s chief of staff in the heart of Beirut and then parked drones over his funeral while the IDF quietly moves to high alert. In Gaza, “ceasefire” means hungry Hamas fighters trying to claw out of Rafah tunnels into instant airstrikes, while new local militias stand in the yellow zone yelling “Death to Hamas.” At home, Eyal Zamir is actually punishing generals for October 7 and Israel Katz slams the brakes on appointments to re-open the whole probe, and Haredi soldiers in the Hashmonaim Brigade are quietly rewriting the draft debate by example. Around all of this, Iran is shopping nuclear laser tech in Russia, the Houthis are shooting “spies,” Trump is about to brand the Muslim Brotherhood what it is, and Qatar is still buying the narrative battlefield.

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⚡️Flash Brief: The Day in 90 Seconds or Less

• Lebanon: IDF eliminated Hezbollah chief of staff Haytham Ali Tabataba’i in Dahieh, reinforced air defenses and ran surprise drills as Hezbollah weighs whether to respond from the border, Syria, Houthis or abroad. See The War Today & Developments to Watch.

• Gaza: Three more terrorists crossed the Yellow Line near Khan Yunis and were killed, Rafah tunnel remnants are trapped and starving, and five anti-Hamas militias now operate from IDF-held zones, including a new “Death to Hamas” outfit in eastern Khan Yunis. See The War Today.

• Judea & Samaria: A multi-brigade sweep arrested over 60 suspects, shut two weapons factories and eliminated a PA police gunman, as Central Command openly prepares a larger village operation against Iranian- and Hamas- fed infrastructure. Additionally, Central Command approves ten new jurisdiction areas in Samaria and the Jordan Valley See The War Today, Inside Israel, & Developments to Watch.

• Inside the IDF: Zamir expelled multiple ex-generals from reserve duty, fired the Gaza Division intel officer and reprimanded serving commanders, while Katz froze senior IDF appointments and ordered a new review of the Turgeman report; at the same time, Haredi Hashmonaim soldiers complete basic. See Inside Israel.

• Iran / Axis: Iran–Russia nuclear laser cooperation surfaces, IRGC deployments deepen in Yemen and the Red Sea, a Houthi court sentences 18 “spies” to death, and Trump moves to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terror organization. See Israel and the World & Developments to Watch.

• Diplomacy & Info-War: India and Azerbaijan expand trade and defense ties with Jerusalem while Qatar’s Doha Forum platforms Iranian and Brotherhood figures and X’s new location feature exposes armies of fake “Gazan” and “America First” accounts posting from Turkey, Pakistan and North Africa. See Israel and the World & Briefly Noted.

The full brief and analysis continue below.

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Israel is enforcing reality on three fronts at once: decapitation strikes in Dahieh, lethal ROE along the Yellow Line, and sector-wide raids in Judea and Samaria aimed at PA cops who moonlight as terrorists. Iran, for its part, is trying to widen the board—lasers with Russia, IRGC in Yemen, Houthis executing “spies”—while letting Hezbollah decide how much humiliation it can eat without triggering an air war. Inside the house, the old avoidance games are breaking: the IDF is finally handing out personal responsibility, ministers are fighting over who gets to define October 7, and real service tracks are opening for Haredim while the political class still argues about slogans.

The War Today

Hezbollah’s War Cabinet Loses Its Brains in Dahieh