- State affiliation · Israel
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
State affiliation: Israel.
Vigil category device — drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role. Not an official insignia.
In brief
A regular armoured manoeuvre division: in Gaza from 2023 (Rafah in 2024, then the north of the Strip until it handed over to the 252nd in February 2025 after some 500 days of combat), and reported in south Lebanon in 2026.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination reported
- Sources
- 4 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- By period: the Gaza Strip from 2023 to February 2025, and south Lebanon in 2026 as reported; described at strategic scale only.
- Notable history
- In Gaza from the ground manoeuvre that opened on 27 October 2023, in Rafah in 2024 and then in the north of the Strip, where IDF releases of February 2025 record it handing its sector to the 252nd Division after some 500 days of combat, the longest division-level commitment the IDF has published for the war. The IDF's own probe programme, as described in April 2024, examined its manoeuvre alongside five other divisions under the Southern Command. In 2026 it was reported in south Lebanon during the expanded ground operation that began in mid-March, an attachment recorded here from press reporting rather than from an IDF structural statement.
- Strengths
- The IDF's most sustained division-level deployment of the Gaza war, with the experience of urban and subterranean operations in both Rafah and the north of the Strip, and a formation the IDF has moved between fronts.
- Limitations
- Its attachment changes by campaign, so no standing parent command is claimed, and the Lebanon deployment of 2026 rests on press reporting. No strength, order of battle, equipment holdings, positions or current deployment are published or recorded.
Lineage & institutional history
Formal parent institution: Israel Defense Forces; assigned to regional commands by period (Gaza 2023–25, Lebanon 2026)
Campaigns
Campaigns naming this organisation as a participant. The campaign record owns the relationship and grades it; this list is computed.
- Israel's Gaza war Supporting force · Since 7 October 2023 · moderate confidence · as of 2024-08
Named by the IDF as continuing operations in the Strip in April 2024 and reported leading the Rafah operations through mid-2024. Later attachments are not authored here.
- The 2026 Lebanon war Reported participant · Since 2 March 2026 · low confidence · as of 2026-03
Reported in March 2026 as transferred from the Gaza front to the northern border and sent as reinforcement in southern Lebanon. Not confirmed in an IDF statement read for this record.
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Assessed as of — 2026-10 Last reviewed — 2026-10-29
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