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Israel – Hezbollah, Hamas war
- Israeli artillery shelled Lebanese territory including Mansouri, Majdal Zoun, and Wadi Hassan. Haaretz latest headlines · 26 Sep 2026IDF attacks several villages in south Lebanon, state news agency says
- Israeli airstrikes killed two Hamas operatives, including a Nukhba platoon commander, in the Gaza Strip. News from Israel · 26 Sep 2026IDF eliminates Hamas Nukhba commander
- Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam demanded complete Israeli military withdrawal from southern Lebanon at the United Nations. JPost.com - Middle East News | The Jerusalem Post · 25 Sep 2026Lebanese PM demands Israel withdraw from Lebanon, says country dragged into war 'imposed upon' it
- Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani publicly blamed Israeli leadership for obstructing Gaza ceasefire progress. Haaretz latest headlines · 26 Sep 2026Netanyahu is 'biggest obstacle' to Gaza cease-fire, Qatari PM tells CNNJPost.com - Middle East News | The Jerusalem Post · 26 Sep 2026Qatari Prime Minister accuses Netanyahu of sabotaging Gaza peace efforts for his own political gain
- The Israel Defense Forces expanded its Personal Security Branch to protect service members from foreign intelligence threats. JPost.com - The Jerusalem Post - All News from the Middle East, Israel, and the Jewish World · 27 Sep 2026IDF expands Personal Security Branch to protect troops, officials from global threats
Southern Lebanon Cross-Border Shelling
Israeli forces shelled positions in southern Lebanon, hitting Mansouri, Majdal Zoun, and Wadi Hassan. Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam addressed the United Nations General Assembly to demand full Israeli withdrawal to the 1949 Armistice Line. Salam stated that the Lebanese government seeks sole authority over military decision-making and weapons deployment within Lebanese territory. Haaretz latest headlines · 26 Sep 2026IDF attacks several villages in south Lebanon, state news agency saysJPost.com - Middle East News | The Jerusalem Post · 25 Sep 2026Lebanese PM demands Israel withdraw from Lebanon, says country dragged into war 'imposed upon' it
Gaza Operational Engagement
Israeli airstrikes killed two Hamas operatives in Gaza, including a platoon commander from the Nukhba unit. Palestinian health officials reported that total war casualties in the Gaza Strip exceeded 74,000 fatalities. Hamas rejected the Board of Peace's decision to exclude the United Nations Relief and Works Agency from post-war Gaza governance operations. אבו עלי אקספרס · 26 Sep 2026Hamas Ministry of Health in Gaza: The number of deaths in the war in the Strip has surpassed the 74,000 markNews from Israel · 26 Sep 2026IDF eliminates Hamas Nukhba commanderAl Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera · 26 Sep 2026Hamas slams Board of Peace for refusal to work with UNRWA in Gaza
Gaza Ceasefire Mediation Friction
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani stated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains the primary obstacle to implementing a Gaza ceasefire agreement. Sheikh Mohammed asserted that Israeli forces now occupy over 70 percent of the Gaza Strip rather than completing planned military withdrawals. Haaretz latest headlines · 26 Sep 2026Netanyahu is 'biggest obstacle' to Gaza cease-fire, Qatari PM tells CNNJPost.com - Middle East News | The Jerusalem Post · 26 Sep 2026Qatari Prime Minister accuses Netanyahu of sabotaging Gaza peace efforts for his own political gain
Israeli Defense Force Restructuring
The Israel Defense Forces expanded its Operations Directorate's Personal Security Branch. The expanded branch manages protection protocols for active-duty Israeli soldiers and senior defense officials against international threats. JPost.com - The Jerusalem Post - All News from the Middle East, Israel, and the Jewish World · 27 Sep 2026IDF expands Personal Security Branch to protect troops, officials from global threats
Assessment
Persistent cross-border shelling along the Blue Line and ongoing strikes inside Gaza indicate that tactical combat operations continue to dominate the theater.
- 2026-09-26
Israeli forces strike Hamas financial network, killing 16 operatives
The IDF and Shin Bet disrupted Hamas financial networks, killing 16 key operatives managing over $1 billion in transfers via Turkey and Gaza.
- 2026-09-24
Israel reduces ground forces in southern Lebanon to six brigades
The Israel Defense Forces reduced active ground formations deployed in southern Lebanon from eight brigades to six.
- 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.
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- 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.
- 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.
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 67.1/100 as of 1 January 1970 (active 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 67.1/100 — active 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.