- Roughly 6,930 rockets, mortars, drones, and other projectiles have been fired from Gaza during the war
- At least seven rockets, mortars, drones, and other projectiles have been fired from Lebanon in the last 24 hours.
- The IDF stated that it launched strikes against over 200 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets in Gaza in the last 24 hours
- The IDF responded to rocket and anti-tank fire from Lebanon by striking targets in southern Lebanon
- Israeli press reported on October 18 that Israel, in a joint operation involving both the IDF and the Shin Bet, had arrested forty -one terrorists in the West Bank, including thirty Hamas operatives