In recent days, Hamas released a video with images of three hostages whose bodies were later recovered by the army. They are Elia Toledano (28 years old), Ron Sherman and Nik Beizer, both 19 year old soldiers. All were kidnapped in the attack on October 7th: the first at the music festival in Reim, the others kidnapped from a base. In the caption of the video posted on Telegram, Hamas claimed: “We tried to keep them alive, but Netanyahu insisted on killing them.” Israeli media – which did not publish the video – described it as “propaganda.”
No dialogue on prisoner exchange agreements until Israeli “aggression” ends. They supported this in a statement Hamas and Palestinian factions in Gaza, according to Israeli media reports, among them Haaretz. The Hamas government also announced that Israeli attacks on a border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel killed four people, including Bassem Ghaben, who was in charge of the Karam Abu Salem border crossing. “Israeli aircraft targeted the infrastructure,” said the administration responsible for the border crossings and the Hamas Ministry of Health.
Israel's goal of “eliminating resistance forces will not be realized.” Abu Obeida, spokesman for the Islamic faction's military wing, said the following: as Haaretz reported. “If Israel – he added – wants its prisoners to live, it has no other option than to stop the aggression and the war.”
Missile warning sirens from Gaza have sounded again in Tel Aviv and central Israel Send people to emergency shelters. Due to missile interception by the Iron Dome defense system, numerous explosions were heard in the air. The media reported a powerful volley of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip. The last alarm in the city was two days ago.
Alarm sirens also sounded again in Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip, particularly in Nirim. The army made it known. The pause in rocket fire was the longest in the entire war, with the exception of the ceasefire period. The army also announced that this had happened in the last 24 hours around 230 attacks against Hamas targets in the strip. And that “strong fighting” is taking place in the stronghold of the Islamic faction Jabalya, in the north of the Palestinian enclave. In Jabalya in particular, the army found “numerous weapons” belonging to Hamas activists in a school where displaced civilians had sought refuge. In addition, air strikes “eliminated identified terrorists” in the area of the al-Shati refugee camp. Last night they were, by the way “Hezbollah’s terrorist infrastructure” hit in southern Lebanon and a firing range that was used “yesterday to shoot” into the territory of the Jewish state. This was announced by the military spokesman.
Hamas Yesterday he rejected the proposal Israel for a week's ceasefire in exchange for 40 hostages and stated that negotiations would begin only after a ceasefire began. Meanwhile, the vote on a Security Council resolution was again postponed until today U.N. on Gaza. The Glass Palace resolution would provide for one “Suspension of hostilities”, in the formula that would avoid a new veto by the United States, which does not intend to give Hamas a breathing space. In the final draft, the Security Council calls for “urgent and extended humanitarian breaks and corridors” as well as the release of all hostages, and calls on the “parties to the conflict in Gaza to comply with their obligations under international law to protect civilians” and “refrain from providing basic services to the civilian population in the Gaza Strip.” and withholding humanitarian aid essential to their survival.”
Yesterday's Israeli bombings left at least 36 people dead and dozens injured Rafah And Khan Yunis, according to Palestinian sources. In particular, local media reported “a house and a mosque attacked a hundred meters from the Kuwaiti hospital” in Rafah, with twelve victims; and of 24 civilians killed and several others injured in yesterday's raids in Khan Yunis, where, among other things, Israel had ordered the evacuation of about 20% of the southern Gaza Strip's largest city.
Meanwhile, three Israeli soldiers were killed yesterday during fighting in the northern Gaza Strip. This brings the number of soldiers killed since the ground operation against Hamas began to 137. The latest victims are a 19-year-old sergeant and two lieutenants aged 20 and 21, according to a statement cited by local media the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). The army now says it is in a “significant phase of the war in new areas” of the Gaza Strip. According to the head of the Southern Command of the Israeli Army (IDF), Major General Yaron Finkelman, this offensive will continue and will be further advanced: “The pressure against the enemy on the surface and underground will continue. We will continue to move forward.” “To make progress here and in other areas where we have not yet maneuvered,” he said, speaking to soldiers of the 98th Division in Khan Yunis (Gaza), as shown in an IDF video.
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Hamas suicide bomber blows himself up in Gaza, soldiers remain unhurt
For the first time since the start of the war, the army announced that a suicide bomber had attacked soldiers. As Yediot Ahronot reports, a man in his 60s near the Indonesian hospital in the northern part of the Gaza Strip ignored the soldiers' warnings, approached them and immediately activated an explosive device. The man, the newspaper said, was killed while the soldiers were unhurt. According to Yediot Ahronot, the army is considering the possibility that Hamas has organized additional bombers to use against the ground forces.
Israel: “Over 2,000 terrorists killed after ceasefire ends”
Since the end of the ceasefire in Gaza, Israeli forces have eliminated “over 2,000 terrorists” from Hamas. “This happened from the air, from the sea and from the land,” said military spokesman Daniel Hagari. Military bomb disposal units, he added, had blown up Hamas's political and military “leadership district”: “We have destroyed this huge network of tunnels, a strategic terrorist structure built by Hamas in the center of Gaza city.” Meanwhile, in Khan Yunis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, has five army brigades committed to the fight against Hamas, “particularly underground.”
Israel: “After Hamas, the PNA must be fundamentally reformed”
“A reform based on the Palestinian Authority and its commitment to educate the new generation of Gaza, Ramallah, Jenin and Jericho in the values of moderation and tolerance, without further incitement against Israel.” This is one of the components of the Israeli vision the war in Gaza, as outlined in the Saudi newspaper Elaph by the Israeli National Security Advisor Zahi Hanegbi (Likud). This was reported by the Israeli public radio station Kan.
“After defeating Hamas,” said Hanegbi, it is necessary to finally free the Israeli civilian population from the fear of terrorist attacks and to ensure that Gaza’s two million residents can look to the future with confidence. Israel, Hanegbi adds, is studying how to rebuild Gaza and create a new reality there, also thanks to the involvement of regional and international forces. Israel wants to guarantee the security of its people, but, he asserts, “it has no interest in regulating civil affairs in the Gaza Strip.”
Therefore, it will be necessary to “form a moderate element of the Palestinian government that enjoys popular support and broad legitimacy.” “We will not be the ones who decide on its formation.” Israel, Hanegbi concludes, understands the international and regional willingness to include the PNA in the “day after”: “But the matter – he specifies – requires reform from the ground up” and his commitment not to stir up further hostility towards Israel.
WHO alert: “Northern Gaza Strip lacks functioning hospitals”
There were no functioning hospitals in northern Gaza. This is what the WHO said, according to Haaretz reports. The World Health Organization in Geneva says that this is the reason for the failure of hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip Lack of fuel, personnel and supplies. In addition, according to the WHO, only nine of 36 health facilities in the entire Gaza Strip are still partially functioning, and they are all located in the south of the Gaza Strip. Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative in Gaza, made this clear to journalists via video link from Jerusalem, writes Portal on its website. The “Al-Ahli” hospital was the last to “continue to operate” and “now treats existing patients but does not accept new ones.”
According to the description, the facility currently has “approximately ten staff members, all physicians and nurses, who continue to provide basic first aid, pain management and wound care with limited resources,” it said. “Until two days ago, this was the only one.” “The hospital in northern Gaza where the wounded could be operated on was overcrowded with patients in need of emergency care,” Peeperkorn added.
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