With Iran vowing to retaliate for a strike earlier this week on one of its consular buildings in Damascus that it blames on Israel, the IDF on Thursday said it had halted home leave for all combat troops following a fresh assessment.

“The IDF is at war and the issue of the deployment of forces is constantly reviewed as needed,” the IDF noted in its announcement.

While Israel has not claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed Iran’s top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps general in Syria along with his deputy and five other IRGC officers, Tehran has blamed Jerusalem and vowed revenge.

On Wednesday night, the IDF said it was bolstering air defenses and calling up reservists, following an assessment.

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said earlier Wednesday that Israel is “increasing preparedness” in the face of threats from across the Middle East. Gallant said the defense establishment is “expanding our operations against Hezbollah, against other bodies that threaten us,” and reiterated that Israel “strikes our enemies all over the Middle East.”

Meanwhile, residents of central Israel reported widespread disruptions to navigation apps such as Google Maps, Waze, and other systems that use global positioning system (GPS), with many Tel Aviv motorists being shown that they were in Beirut on Thursday.

Apart from the navigation problems, delivery and transport apps like Wolt and Gett were also reported to be experiencing disruptions and warned customers of delays.

The GPS disruptions have been going on for months in northern Israel or areas close to Gaza, but have been less common in central Israel. They have previously been blamed on the IDF blocking some GPS signals amid the ongoing war with Hamas in the Strip and deadly clashes with Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

There was no immediate IDF comment on the disruptions.

Both Iran and its proxy Hezbollah have vowed that Israel will not go unpunished for the Monday attack on a consular building next to Iran’s embassy in Damascus, which killed Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ most senior official in Syria, along with his deputy, five other IRGC officers, and at least one member of the Hezbollah terror group.

Since October 8, Hezbollah-led forces have attacked Israeli communities and military posts along the border on a near-daily basis. So far, the skirmishes on the border have resulted in eight civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of 10 IDF soldiers and reservists. There have also been several attacks from Syria, without any injuries.

Hezbollah has named 267 members who have been killed by Israel during the ongoing skirmishes, mostly in Lebanon but some also in Syria. In Lebanon, another 50 operatives from other terror groups, a Lebanese soldier, and at least 60 civilians, three of whom were journalists, have been killed.