- 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
The IDF's paratroop and commando manoeuvre division: in Khan Younis in 2024, among the forces that opened the south-Lebanon ground operation at the turn of September and October 2024, and deployed to south Lebanon again 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: Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip in 2024, and south Lebanon in October 2024 and again in 2026; described at strategic scale only.
- Notable history
- Named by the IDF as the division leading the Khan Younis operation until April 2024 and reported back in Khan Younis from July 2024. It was among the first formations the IDF named in the ground operation in south Lebanon that began on 1 October 2024, which the IDF described as limited, targeted and geographically confined, and it was deployed to south Lebanon again in the 2026 war, an attachment reported in April 2026. The IDF's April 2024 probe programme examined its Gaza manoeuvre with five other divisions.
- Strengths
- The IDF's division built around paratroop and commando brigades, committed first in one of the war's hardest urban sectors in Gaza and in both Lebanon ground operations.
- Limitations
- Later Gaza attachments are not authored, and the 2026 Lebanon deployment is graded moderate because it rests on reporting rather than an IDF structural release. No strength, order of battle, positions or current deployment are published or recorded.
Lineage & institutional history
Formal parent institution: Israel Defense Forces; assigned to regional commands by period (Gaza 2024, Lebanon 2024 and 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 leading the Khan Younis operation until April 2024, and reported back in Khan Younis from July 2024. Later attachments are not authored here.
- The Lebanon front, 2023–2024 Supporting force · 8 October 2023 – 27 November 2024 · moderate confidence · as of 2024-10
Reported by the IDF among the first formations in the ground operation from 1 October 2024.
- The 2026 Lebanon war Supporting force · Since 2 March 2026 · moderate confidence · as of 2026-04
Reported, citing IDF statements, as operating in southern Lebanon from early April 2026.
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Assessed as of — 2026-10 Last reviewed — 2026-10-29
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