Israel Defense Forces (IDF)

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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi (center) tours Israel's northern border, January 3, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi speaks to officers in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, December 23, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant during a visit to Israel Defense Forces in the area of Rafah, in the southernmost part of the Gaza Strip, Oct. 30, 2024. Credit: Ariel Hermoni/Israeli Ministry of Defense.

 

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Israel Defense Forces troops operating in the Gaza Strip, April 12, 2025. Credit: IDF.

Troops of the 205th Reserve Armored Brigade operate in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout photo issued by the IDF on April 27, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli soldiers fire during an operation of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) against Hamas, in a location given as Gaza, Palestine, in this handout image released on Nov. 16, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces/Handout via Reuters)

Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in this handout picture released on December 14, 2023. Israel Defense Forces/Handout via REUTERS

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip in a handout photo published on May 15, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

 

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Troops of the IDF's 99th division during a drill in northern Israel, December 1, 2022. (Israel Defense Forces, file)

File: IDF forces are seen on the border with the Gaza Strip, in May 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)

 

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An Eitan armored personnel carrier goes through the paces at an Israeli training facility. (Seth Frantzman / Breaking Defense)

 

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An Israeli army tank rolls in southern Israel along the border with Gaza on January 24. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo published on May 11, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

 

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IDF troops conducting ground operations against Hezbollah terror targets in Southern Lebanon, Oct. 5, 2024. Credit: Israel Defense Forces.

 

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Israeli forces make their way to the Aqbat Jabr Camp in Jericho, West Bank on February 4, 2023 [Israel Defense Forces (IDF)]

 

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IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued by the military on May 19, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

The Israeli army reinforces its air and ground forces in the Golan Heights in response to ongoing situation in Syria on December 06, 2024, in Israel.

 

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Illustrative: Troops of the Kfir Brigade operate in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun, in a handout photo issued by the IDF on January 4, 2024. (The Times of Israel: Israel Defense Forces)

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip as part of a campaign targeting Hamas infrastructure and terrorist positions, May 2025. Credit: IDF.

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo published on May 11, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued by the military on May 19, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip in an undated photo released by the military on February 2, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)

 

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Israeli soldiers from the Golani Brigade take part in a military training exercise near the border with Syria on Jan. 19, 2015. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

An Israeli army soldier stands with an assault rifle hanging across his chest at a position in the upper Galilee region of northern Israel near the border with Lebanon on October 28, 2023. (Photo by JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images)

 

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Israeli soldiers take position next to a road in Kfar Aza, south of Israel bordering the Gaza Strip, on October 10, 2023 [Thomas Coex/AFP]

 

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Troops of the 98th Division operate in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, in a handout photo released December 6, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)

Troops of the 401st Armored Brigade operate in eastern Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, in a handout photo published May 13, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

An Israeli soldier takes position during the ongoing ground operation of the Israeli army against Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at a location given as Gaza, in this picture released on November 17, 2023.

An Israeli soldier stands in an apartment during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

This handout picture released by the Israeli army on 30 August 2024 shows Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip (Israeli army/AFP)

 

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In this photo released by the U.S. Air Force, an Israeli Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle flies in formation with a U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer over Israel as part of a deterrence flight Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021.

An Israeli air force F-15 fighter at the Ovda air base on Oct. 24, 2021. Photo: Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images

An Israeli F-15 before takeoff, 26 October, 2024. EFE/Israel Armed Force

 

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Israeli army armoured vehicles roll towards the border with the Gaza Strip at an undisclosed location in southern Israel on October 15, 2023. © AFP 2023 YURI CORTEZ

 

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Israeli army troops are seen on the Israeli-Gaza border during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Israeli military vehicles patrol as armed forces increase measures in Sha'ar Hanegev, Sderot, a Israeli city near the border with Gaza, on October 12, 2023. Photo: VCG

Israeli soldiers seen during a military drill, near the border with Syria in the central Golan Heights, on September 19, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

 

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An Israeli army M109 155mm self-propelled howitzer is deployed at a position along the border with the Gaza Strip near Sderot in southern Israel, Oct. 27, 2023, (AFP Photo)

 

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Israeli troops break into the office of a Palestinian NGO in the West Bank city of Ramallah on 18 August 2022. (Photo courtesy of Israeli military)

 

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An Israeli AH-64 Apache longbow helicopter performs during an air show at the graduation ceremony of Israeli Air Force pilots at the Hatzerim base in the Negev desert, near the southern city of Beer Sheva, on June 29, 2023. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

 

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An Israeli soldier sits on an armoured vehicle as it drives near the Israeli side of the border with Syria in the Golan Heights, Israel 9 May 2018. (Reuters)

 

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An Israeli F-16 jet takes off on December 9, 2014 at the Ovda airbase in the Negev Desert near Eilat, southern Israel. (Photo by Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images)

Two Israeli and one American F-16 fighter jets fly alongside one another during a joint exercise in southern Israel in January 2022. (Israel Defense Forces)