He went up Seven The total number Palestinians were killed in Jenin today during an Israeli army invasion. Palestinian news agency Wafa updates it. Local sources report that four of them were Hamas militants and a fifth were Fatah members. Another Palestinian, Wafa added, was killed by the Israeli army in the village of Abwein near Ramallah.
In exactly three months of war, Israel has killed “around 8,000 Hamas terrorists”: This is what the army (IDF) says on its Internet. In the northern part of the Gaza Strip, in a densely populated area with 1.2 million people, a military structure was created consisting of 2 brigades, including 12 battalions, with a total strength of 14,000 men. In total, the armed forces in the Gaza Strip have so far found and destroyed 30,000 to 40,000 weapons and other combat equipment stored in Hamas bunkers, but also in schools, hospitals, mosques and houses.
In the meantime Two journalists were killed in an Israeli raid in Khan Yunis, reports the Wafa agency: They are Mustafa Abu Thraya and Hamza Dahdouh. The latter is said to be the son of a well-known Al-Jazeera journalist, Wael Al-Dahdouh, whose story went around the world: he learned about it while filming a report on Israeli attacks in a hospital when he received the news that a A large part of his family was wiped out in the raid, as the Anadolu news agency recalls.
And the death toll in Gaza continues to rise in the conflict that has been ongoing since October 7, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, with 22,835 deaths so far.
After the heavy bombing raids from Lebanese territory on the Galilee Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a warning to Hezbollah today at the opening of the Council of Ministers: “They should learn what Hamas has already learned in the last few months. No terrorist is immune.”
He added that Israel intends to allow northern residents displaced by the bombings to return safely to their homes. “This is our common goal and we are working responsibly to achieve it. If we can, we will do it through diplomatic channels. Otherwise we will use other avenues.”
At least 16 people died in Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip last night, Palestinian news agency Wafa said. Twelve civilians were killed and 50 others injured in an attack on an apartment in the southern town of Khan Yunis, according to local sources cited by Wafa. According to the Palestinian Agency, another four people died from bombs that fell on a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school in the Maghazi refugee camp in downtown Deir al-Balah.
An Israeli civilian was shot dead north of Ramallah in the West Bank today: The Israeli army announced this, adding that it is hunting down the perpetrators of the attack.
An Israeli airstrike killed six people in Jenin in the West Bank. This was announced by the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The Ramallah-based ministry says the bombing hit a gathering of citizens in the city in the northern Palestinian territory. Israel says those killed were among a group of Palestinian gunmen who threw explosives at troops involved in a counterterrorism operation in the West Bank. In a statement quoted by local media, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) explains that four border police officers were injured by a bomb that was planted on the side of the road in Jenin and exploded as a police vehicle drove past: in the rescue of When the injured officers died, led a helicopter carried out an airstrike against the armed group, which dropped explosives on the troops. The Palestinian Health Ministry said six people were killed in the attack. The IDF says two of the injured officers are in serious condition. Local sources cited by Arabic broadcaster Al Jazeera say at least one of the border guards was taken away by helicopter. According to Al Jazeera, several Israeli ground strikes were carried out in the West Bank this evening. In one of these cases, the army in Nabuls arrested a young Palestinian woman after searching her home. The other West Bank cities affected by the Israeli incursions were Hebron, Qalqilya and Jericho.
Israeli border guard killed in Jenin A border guard who was seriously injured in an explosion in Jenin, West Bank this morning has died in hospital. This was announced by the military spokesman. Three other officers were injured with her, one of whom is in serious condition. According to military radio, a powerful bomb that had been hidden along the road exploded at their unit's entrance to Jenin. The operation was immediately interrupted and the evacuation of the wounded was very difficult. To cover their escape from the city, a helicopter intervened, hitting and killing six militiamen stationed nearby.
The slain officer has been identified Sergeant Shay Garmay, 19 years. His death brings to 60 the total number of police and border guards killed near the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem since October 7. According to the army's reconstructions, the forces were caught in a complex ambush at the entrance to Jenin. The vehicle Garmay was in was hit by an explosion. The officers set off to seek shelter and then a second bomb hidden under the asphalt exploded beneath their vehicle. Typically, forces entering refugee camps are preceded by a bulldozer, whose job is to detonate explosive devices and mines hidden in the ground. This place is considered by the militiamen as the best place to neutralize the army's armored vehicles by hitting them at their weakest point i.e. the base. In this case, however, the Israeli unit was taken by surprise, military radio reported. While the wounded were transported to the hospital by helicopter, other forces were busy recovering the damaged vehicle while facing constant fire from militiamen stationed nearby. The operation, which lasted four hours, required the use of military aircraft, which hit and killed six Jenin militiamen.
An Israeli man in his 30s was shot dead today by gunfire as he drove a car near the settlement of Ofra in the Ramallah area, in the West Bank. This was reported on military radio, according to which the hypothesis of an attack emerged as the car had an Israeli license plate. At the same time, the broadcaster added, other information was also being examined since the person killed was an Arab citizen of Israel.
Israel continues to behead Hamas. This was announced by the army and the internal intelligence agency Shin Bet The commander of Hamas' Nuseirat Battalion, Ismail Siraj, and his deputy Ahmed Wahaba, responsible for the massacres at Kibbutz Beeri and other locations, were killed Saturday evening in an airstrike in Gaza. But not only. The IDF also claimed to have now dismantled Hamas' entire military network in northern Gaza. The news comes as the spotlight turns north, where “the first reaction” to the killing of Hamas number two, Saleh al-Arouri, arrived in Beirut: dozens of rockets rained down from Lebanon, at least 62 from Hezbollah, but also fired by Hezbollah The Sunni group Jama'a Islamiya, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, targeted the town of Kiryat Shmona. There were no casualties and the Israeli response was immediate: warplanes attacked a number of Hezbollah sites in the Aita al-Sha'ab, Yaron and Ramya areas.
Preventing the conflict from spreading is one of the main goals of the US Secretary of State's mission in the region Antony Blinken, who began his trip in Turkey, met first with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan and then with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and then flew to Greece for talks with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The State Department said Blinken “emphasized the need to prevent the conflict from escalating” during talks with Erdogan that lasted more than an hour. He stressed the need to “work toward a more comprehensive and lasting peace in the region that ensures Israel's security and advances the creation of a Palestinian state.”
A Turkish diplomatic source said this Foreign Minister Fidan reiterated to Blinken the need for an “immediate ceasefire.”“To ensure the regular delivery of aid. “We want to prevent the conflict from spreading” and “we are making sure that there is no escalation between Israel and Lebanon,” Blinken himself said from Greece, “we are examining the diplomatic channels for this.” Try to reduce these tensions.” Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh addressed him in a video message, calling on him to use his mission in the region to “stop the aggression against the Palestinians” and ensure that it ends the “occupation of the Palestinian territories.” in the last three months,” adding that U.S. support for the Israeli operation in Gaza “has caused unprecedented massacres and war crimes against us.” After Istanbul and Greece, the US Secretary of State will be in Israel, Jordan, the West Bank, Qatar, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, also joins Blinken's appeal, hoping that Lebanon is not “engaged in a regional conflict. It is absolutely necessary to avoid regional escalation in the Middle East, it is absolutely necessary to prevent Lebanon from being drawn into a regional conflict,” he said while speaking to his Lebanese counterpart in Beirut. “I send the same message to Israel: no one will emerge victorious from a regional conflict. The only way is the creation of a Palestinian state,” the only “horizon of hope” for the Palestinians. A hope that currently seems distant: almost 90% of the Gaza Strip's 2.4 million residents have been “forcibly displaced and are left with nothing,” said UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, who face hundreds of thousands of severe problems due to lack Food, water, medical supplies and fuel. According to UNRWA, 1.9 million Palestinians have been displaced across the Gaza Strip, of whom 1.88 million have found refuge in and around the organization's 155 facilities. Palestinian casualties amounted to 22,722 dead and 58,166 wounded. A dramatic situation that forced Doctors Without Borders to evacuate its staff from Al-Aqsa Hospital after days of fighting and the evacuation order from the Israeli Defense Forces: “With a heavy burden on our hearts, we are forced to evacuate,” Carolina Lopez, the Médecins Sans Frontières emergency coordinator at the hospital announced this. What's more, the bombing doesn't seem to be stopping any time soon: “The war must not end until all objectives are achieved,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated on a day when thousands took to the streets to protest against his line and demand early elections. The families of the hostages are on the front lines: “It has been three months since Nimrod was kidnapped and it is like a long and tiring day that never ends,” cried Rumi Cohen, twin of Nimrod, who was kidnapped in Gaza.
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