Avichay Adraee

IDF strikes Hezbollah sites across south Lebanon after overnight strikes

The IDF's Arabic language spokesperson warned that the IDF will soon strike what it believes is Hezbollah infrastructure, instructing civilians to evacuate the adjacent area.

A photograph shows a sign restricting access on the Israeli side of the border with southern Lebanon on November 16, 2025.
Hezbollah weapons, in an image shared by the IDF, November 13, 2025.

Southern Lebanon explosion caused by Hezbollah weapons smugglers, not IAF strike, Adraee confirms

IDF Arabic spokesperson Col. Avichay Adraee.

Goodbye, 'Mr. evacuate now': Arab outlets weigh in on Adraee’s retirement

IDF's Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee poses for a picture at the Foreign Ministry, in Jerusalem, September 6, 2017

IDF's Arabic-language spokesperson Col. Avichay Adraee to retire from military service


IDF escalates strikes on Hezbollah in villages to press for disarmament

IDF Northern Command Chief Maj.-Gen. Rafi Milo on Thursday told regional northern leaders, "we know we need to be determined to attack, to strike, and to destroy in order to keep Hezbollah weak."

People and members of the Lebanese army gather at a damaged site in the aftermath of Israeli strikes, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, in Abbasiyyeh, Tyre district, southern Lebanon, November 6, 2025.

IDF targets more high-rise buildings used by Hamas terrorists as it ramps up pressure on Gaza City

The IDF issued evacuation warnings earlier for those located in the Gaza Port area and the southern al-Rimal neighborhood.

Smoke rises after Israeli strikes in Gaza City, September 14, 2025.

IDF strikes high-rise building used by Hamas in Gaza City as over 280,000 Gazans leave the city

Earlier, IDF Spokesperson in Arabic Avichay Adraee issued another evacuation order for Gaza City residents to move southward. According to him, more than 250,000 Gazans have already left the city.

Smoke billows from an evacuated UNRWA school following Israeli airstrikes, at al-Shati (Beach) refugee camp, in Gaza City, September 13, 2025.

IDF strikes Hamas infrastructure and high rise tower in Gaza, urges civilians to evacuate to Rafah

IDF Arabic Spokesperson Avichay Adraee ordered civilians to evacuate a section of Gaza City, advising them to move southwards towards humanitarian zones in Khan Yunis and Al-Mawasi.

Smoke rises as a building hit by an Israeli air strike collapses, in Gaza City, September 5, 2025

IDF reveals footage of Hamas's Rafah Brigade dining lavishly underground

While “residents of the sector were forced to break their Ramadan fast with the scraps left by Hamas, the organization’s leaders were celebrating in the tunnels with a grand feast,” Adraee said.

 IDF SOLDIERS walk out of a tunnel underneath the European Hospital in Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip, last month. Israel will continue to strike fiercely against enemy strongholds from Khan Yunis to Isfahan, states the writer.

Gaza City evacuation is 'inevitable,' IDF's Arabic spokesman says

Adraee: Every family moving to southern Gaza will receive generous humanitarian aid • 'Vast empty areas' in southern Gaza

Displaced Palestinians make their way as they flee amid an Israeli military operation, in Gaza City, August 26, 2025.

WATCH: Gazans cheer while safely receiving humanitarian aid, disputing massacre claims

“Not a single bullet was fired,” Adraee wrote, “The civilians began welcoming and cheering for our soldiers, as if they saw in them life after darkness.”

 Palestinians approach to collect aid supplies from the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 29, 2025.

Hostage families warn IDF against op. in areas where hostages may be

The IDF issued an evacuation warning for residents in the southwestern area of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, an area the IDF has not operated in before.

 Israelis demonstrate in Tel Aviv in support of a hostage, ceasefire deal, July 19, 2025.

WATCH: IDF takes operational control of two-thirds of Gaza Strip

The Israeli air force struck over 100 terror targets across Gaza in the past 24 hours, the IDF said earlier.

 IDF troops operating in Gaza, July 4, 2025.

WATCH: Explosions, rubble: IDF strikes Iranian state TV station during live broadcast

The IDF also struck an Iranian military base in western Tehran.

 Footage from the moment the IDF struck the Iranian state television broadcaster during a live broadcast, June 16, 2025.

IDF strikes two Houthi-controlled ports in Yemen

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz vowed further strikes after the series of Houthi missile attacks this week.

 Smoke rises as the IDF strikes three Houthi-controlled Yemen ports, May 16, 2025.