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Israel – Hezbollah, Hamas war
- An IDF engineering vehicle struck an explosive device along Gaza's Yellow Line without causing casualties. אבו עלי אקספרס · 21 Sep 2026IDF Spokesperson: In response to the explosive device detonation in the Yellow Line area: The IDF struck☝️ Hamas terrorist organization infrastructure in the Gaza Strip
- Israeli fighter jets struck Hamas military infrastructure in Gaza City following an explosive device detonation along the Yellow Line. אבו עלי אקספרס · 21 Sep 2026Palestinian channels report that an Israeli fighter jet recently struck a building on Al-Mansi Street, near Salah al-Din Road in the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City.אבו עלי אקספרס · 21 Sep 2026IDF Spokesperson: In response to the explosive device detonation in the Yellow Line area: The IDF struck☝️ Hamas terrorist organization infrastructure in the Gaza Strip
- An Israeli airstrike killed Hamas Rafah Brigade commander Nael Abu Obeid in southern Gaza. ynetnews - News · 21 Sep 2026How Israel tracked and eliminated Hamas' Rafah Brigade commander in Gaza
- Israeli forces detained 53 Palestinians during security raids in the West Bank town of Biddu. Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera · 21 Sep 2026Israeli forces arrest dozens of Palestinians in occupied West Bank raid
- IDF troops retrieved 14 Israeli civilians who illegally crossed the border fence into Syria. News from Israel · 22 Sep 2026Activists cross the border into Syria, cause IDF to respondNews from Israel · 22 Sep 202614 Israeli civilians cross Syrian border
Gaza Demarcation Friction
Israeli fighter jets struck Hamas military infrastructure in Gaza City after an engineering vehicle detonated an explosive device along the Yellow Line demarcation. Israeli drone strikes killed Hamas Rafah Brigade commander Nael Abu Obeid in southern Gaza following intelligence tracking. Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that Israel would evacuate Gaza City if Hamas abducts any Israeli personnel, while Hamas denied planning abductions and called on mediators to enforce ceasefire commitments. אבו עלי אקספרס · 21 Sep 2026Palestinian channels report that an Israeli fighter jet recently struck a building on Al-Mansi Street, near Salah al-Din Road in the Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City.ynetnews - News · 21 Sep 2026How Israel tracked and eliminated Hamas' Rafah Brigade commander in Gazaאבו עלי אקספרס · 22 Sep 2026Hamas responds to the Defense Minister’s announcement regarding information about an intention to kidnap soldiers☝️:
West Bank Raid Operations
Israeli forces detained 53 Palestinians in Biddu during sweep operations following a fatal shooting near Halamish settlement. Military closures around Ramallah coincided with settler actions in central West Bank villages. Concurrently, British lawmakers cautioned financial institutions against funding West Bank settlement projects ahead of proposed trade bans. World news | The Guardian · 22 Sep 2026British banks warned not to invest in planned Israeli settlement before UK trade ban beginsynetnews - News · 21 Sep 2026Terrorist visited Binyamin spring day before attack; IDF tracker shot him, saved victim’s sonHaaretz latest headlines · 22 Sep 2026Palestinian reports: Settler attacks across West Bank; IDF tightens Ramallah closure
Syrian Border Perimeter
Israeli soldiers intercepted and returned 14 Israeli civilians who crossed into Syrian territory near Alonei Habashan. Israeli defense officials separately monitored Iraqi Shi'ite militias ahead of a September disarmament deadline set by Baghdad, anticipating potential cross-border drone or missile attacks against Israel. News from Israel · 22 Sep 2026Activists cross the border into Syria, cause IDF to respondNews from Israel · 22 Sep 202614 Israeli civilians cross Syrian borderJPost.com - The Jerusalem Post - All News from the Middle East, Israel, and the Jewish World · 22 Sep 2026Israel monitoring efforts to disarm Iraqi pro-Iranian Shi'ite militias, concerned they may attack
Diplomatic Pressure at UNGA
Jordanian King Abdullah II and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan condemned Israeli operations in Gaza and West Bank settlement policies during addresses at the United Nations General Assembly. UN Secretary-General António Guterres cited widespread destruction in Gaza, while Israeli diplomats defended counter-terrorism actions. Haaretz latest headlines · 22 Sep 2026Leaders of Jordan, Turkey, Qatar condemn 'regional threat' Israel at UN assemblyNews from Israel · 22 Sep 2026UN Chief attacks Israel over Gaza war, settlementswww.israelhayom.com · 22 Sep 2026Erdogan calls Gaza a 'concentration camp' as UN leaders assail Israel
Assessment
Retaliatory airstrikes in Gaza, West Bank raids, and northern border incursions sustain high operational tension across multiple sectors.
- 2026-09-15
Israel establishes kill zone along southern Lebanon front
The Israeli Northern Command established a kill zone separating Israeli-controlled territory from Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon.
- 2026-09-11
Israeli forces detonate 1,000 tonnes of explosives at Ali al-Taher ridge
The Israeli military detonated over 1,000 tonnes of explosives to destroy underground Hezbollah tunnel infrastructure beneath the Ali al-Taher Ridge.
- 2026-09-04
Israeli military captures strategic Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon
The Israeli military captured the strategic Ali al-Taher ridge following Iranian warnings of direct retaliation.
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- 2026-09-01
Israeli special forces capture Hamas internal security chief in Gaza City
Israeli special forces arrested Hamas internal security chief Mouin al-Arabid during an operational raid in Gaza City.
- 2026-08-22
Israeli military strikes commercial targets in central Beirut
Israeli military forces launched strikes against commercial locations in central Beirut.
- 2026-08-21
Israeli airstrike kills 12 medical workers in Bint Jbeil, Lebanon
An Israeli airstrike killed 12 medical workers in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil.
- 2026-08-15
Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed 11 people, targeting a Hezbollah commander.
On 15 August 2026, Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed 11 people and injured 19 following an attack that wounded three Israeli soldiers. Israel reported killing Hezbollah commander Ali Samir Al-Haj Hassan, marking the highest casualties since the June ceasefire.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Is Israel at war?
Yes. Israel is formally at war, fighting Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah across the Lebanese border. It is a war between a state and armed movements rather than between two states. In the worldwide legal classification this registers as several strands at once: military occupation of Palestinian territory and armed conflicts with Hamas and Hezbollah. The index reads 72.7/100 as of 1 January 1970 (full-scale war); above 50 it grades the fighting itself rather than the risk of it.
How dangerous is the Israel and Hezbollah, Hamas situation right now?
The index reads 72.7/100 — full-scale war. The scale is anchored on 22 historical episodes from 1914 to 2005, so the number means the same thing from one theater to the next. It is a measurement of what is reported, not a forecast.
How is the Israel and Hezbollah, Hamas risk index calculated?
By fixed formula from open-source reporting: events are extracted and graded by how well evidenced they are, scored across weighted factors, and the model never picks the number. How the index works, and what it does not measure, is explained at wwiii.report/methodology.
How often is this updated?
Every day. The report is rebuilt from that day's reporting and the index re-judged from it, and a fall is published only once the evidence confirms it.
Timeline events — hover the chart to read them
Timeline events — hover the chart to read them
Timeline events — hover the chart to read them
One 0–100 scale for the whole conflict. 0–49 is escalation before war; 50–100 is active war and how far it has gone.
50 is not a threshold the number can cross on its own. Which side a theater sits on is decided by whether verified belligerents are fighting there, so war onset always moves the score up across 50 — the number never declares a war by climbing.
It is a stage, not a probability: 42 is not a 42% chance of war. Below 50 it grades movement toward war, above 50 the war itself.
Why it moved, under the chart, names what changed in the latest move: the day’s readings — strikes, casualties, talks — and, when the conflict’s stage was re-judged, what was graded differently and the events behind it. Open it for the detail.
Re-judged from open reporting by fixed formula — the model never picks a number — and a fall publishes only once the evidence confirms it. A dot on the line is a day the stage itself moved. How it is made →
Direction — which way the week pushed. Severity — where the index sits. Connections — how much of the rest a shock here reaches. Cascade — that reach combined with how ready this theater is to go off.
The index reads the state of the conflict, not the volume of news. Each run grades the factors listed below against fixed rubrics, and the score follows by formula.
So a dramatic headline moves nothing unless it changes a grade. A theater already graded for recurring incursions absorbs one more without moving — it is priced in.
Open How this was measured for every grade, its movement since the last run, and the events behind it. Full construction →
A different measurement from the score above, from a different source. This line counts how much of the world's news reports conflict between these two states, against their own long-run normal: 100 is normal, 200 is twice the usual level.
It is computed mechanically from the GDELT Project's open event stream every 15 minutes and never touches the assessed index above — when both move together, that agreement is the signal. A day with too few events shows no reading rather than a guess. Click the chart for the full history.
Data: the GDELT Project.