IDF: Following a report about a breach discovered in the fence of Kibbutz Zikim, IDF forces have completed extensive searches in the area. The incident has concluded, and there is no security concern. IDF forces will continue to be deployed in the area.

Channel
Israel, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria updates via up_millers
@up_millersisraelvgaza
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · What this channel posts · Posts · Cite this entry
1,011subscribers
+10 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001750454507 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @up_millersisraelvgaza |
| Created | Between 1 December 2021 and 30 April 2023 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 12 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/up_millersisraelvgaza |
Topic
International news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 19 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 93% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Oct 2026, 13:21 | 1,011 | +1 |
| 5 Oct 2026, 19:55 | 1,010 | -6 |
| 28 Sept 2026, 12:40 | 1,016 | +13 |
| 18 Sept 2026, 13:41 | 1,003 | +4 |
| 11 Sept 2026, 05:57 | 999 | -6 |
| 6 Sept 2026, 08:56 | 1,005 | +11 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 10:25 | 994 | -2 |
| 23 Aug 2026, 09:03 | 996 | +1 |
| 15 Aug 2026, 16:49 | 995 | -4 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 11:37 | 999 | -2 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 00:34 | 1,001 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 12:56 | 1,001 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 7 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 8 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
What this channel posts
- Video runtime
- 2m 20s
- Average length
- 35s
Measured directly from 4 videos with a duration reading, out of the posts we hold for this channel — not this channel’s whole posting history, only the sample this register has actually read. An exact reading to the second, taken from the post itself rather than from Telegram’s own rounded chrome, so it carries no ≈ mark.
Recent posts
An explosion rocked Sulaymaniyah, in northern Iraq.
NASA imagery reportedly shows a fire currently burning aboard a tanker near the Omani coast in the Strait of Hormuz.
One or two officials in Gaza are reporting that the IDF has issued an evacuation order for the “Abbas Center” in western Gaza City, near the Palestinian Legislative Council. The reported evacuation order has not yet been independently confirmed, but people are reportedly leaving the area. If confirmed, strikes could follow, potentially marking the first strikes in Gaza in four days.
The IDF is investigating the possibility that thieves cut through the fence in an attempt to steal a large copper cable in the area.
The search in Zikim is over. No suspects were located. Residents can now leave their homes. IDF troops will remain in the kibbutz for the night as a precaution.
Intense clashes between pro-govt forces and Houthi militants east of #Hodeidah 🇾🇪
Pro-government forces confirm they are engaged in active clashes with Houthi militants east, west and north of Hodeidah, amid an apparent attempt by the Houthis to attack their military positions.
Current situation inside one of the homes in Zikim: kids are playing on their consoles, but slight worry for the parent. They can now leave the shelter, but the directive to remain indoors is still in effect.
Residents of Zikim can leave the bomb shelter, but they must remain in their homes for now.
NOW: Clashes between Houthis and pro-govt forces are underway south of #Hodeidah 🇾🇪
The Hof Ashkelon Regional Council confirms that residents of Kibbutz Zikim have been instructed by the IDF to lock their doors and close windows as forces conduct searches in the border area. The IDF said a cut was discovered along the security fence with the Gaza Strip, though it remains unclear when the breach occurred. The searches are being carried out as a precautionary measure to rule out the possibility that …
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @up_millersisraelvgaza. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 12 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Israel, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria updates via up_millers” (@up_millersisraelvgaza), 1,011 subscribers as measured 12 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/up_millersisraelvgaza.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.