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The 55th Brigade has left Khan Yunis after two months of operations in the town during which 70 tunnel shafts were dismantled and numerous terrorist operatives were eliminated. Embedded video In the past two months, the 55th Brigade has been operating in the Khan Yunis area. The brigade located and dismantled tunnel shafts, destroyed numerous weapons, and eliminated a large number of terrorists. In recent weeks, the soldiers identified two sites used by Hamas terrorists to launch rockets toward Israeli territory. In another operation, the brigade's sniper teams identified and eliminated several terrorist cells. Additionally, an RPG was fired at...

CLOUDS of smoke billowed above the city of Isfahan - evidence that the latest strike against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program had hit its target. The second blast in as many weeks at an atomic or missile facility has sparked Iranian denials and claims of accidents, but a new phase in efforts to destroy its nuclear ambitions is said to be under way. "Instead of overt action you have covert action. This is the new battlefront -- this is a new kind of war," an Israeli defence official said. The Israeli Defence Minister, in a radio interview yesterday, did little...

Israel has started assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists as part of its efforts to disrupt the Islamist regime's illicit weapons program, the Daily Telegraph on Tuesday quoted Western intelligence sources as saying. "Israel has shown no hesitation in assassinating weapons scientists for hostile regimes in the past," a European intelligence official told the British daily, speaking on condition of anonymity. "They did it with Iraq and they will do it with Iran when they can," the official added. The paper also quoted United States intelligence sources as saying Israel is using sabotage, front companies and double agents to disrupt the Islamist...