The Israeli military issues an "urgent warning" to people in Tehran's District 3 that air strikes will hit "military infrastructure" in the area.

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.

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.

Maj. Gen. Yadlin, who flew in the 1981 Osirak reactor strike, explains why Israel's current operation against Iran represents a complex, multi-week campaign.

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.

Israel’s military headquarters were struck after Iran’s Islamic Republic unleashed a barrage of missiles on central Tel Aviv late Friday night, causing “significant damage” to the Jewish state’s equivalent of the Pentagon.

"In the coming hours, the Israeli army will operate in this area, as it has done in recent days in the vicinity of Tehran."

Israel's Air Force and Navy intercepted over 100 drones fired by Iran so far, with no reports of any that fell in Israeli territory, the military added.