In the last 24 hours, several commanders from Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, have been killed, Hagari also said. Two of them were the masterminds of the massacre in Israel on October 7th. Several underground tunnel entrances were also destroyed. Many of them are close to schools, hospitals and humanitarian facilities. Tanks and ground troops discovered a military installation with launch pads for 50 rockets near a mosque.
Palestinian eyewitnesses reported damage to the roof of Shifa Hospital in the Israeli attacks on Monday. Asked whether Israel would also attack the clinic, which the army says also serves as a Hamas command center, the spokesman said: “We will penetrate deeper into Gaza City and reach any place where there are terrorists.” There is “no place where Hamas terrorists are safe from army attacks.” “New means” are also being used to destroy the underground tunnels.
According to an Egyptian border official, six ambulances carrying injured people initially arrived in Egypt from the Gaza Strip. Shortly afterwards he saw the arrival of the first group of people with dual citizenship. Last week, dozens of injured Palestinians and hundreds of foreigners managed to leave the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing. It was closed on Saturday and Sunday after the Israeli army fired on an ambulance in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran and its allies of deliberately trying to torpedo Israel’s rapprochement with the region’s Arab states. A month after the start of the war in Gaza, Netanyahu spoke to more than 100 foreign diplomats on Monday about a “broader war between civilization and barbarism.” Netanyahu said: “Barbarism is led by an axis of terror.” Tehran is at the top and also includes the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, the Islamist Hamas that rules in the Gaza Strip and the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
However, Jordan drew a “red line” in the Gaza war. Attempts to expel Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank, or the conditions to prepare for it, will be seen by the kingdom as a “declaration of war,” Jordanian Prime Minister Damit al-Khasawneh said on Monday. according to state news agency Petra.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres described the situation in the Gaza Strip as a “crisis of humanity”. He reiterated his calls for the immediate release of hostages taken to Gaza and a humanitarian ceasefire. “Gaza is becoming a cemetery for children,” Guterres told reporters in New York on Monday. Several UN organizations had already called for an immediate ceasefire, taking into account the high number of civilian casualties and the critical supply situation in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has so far refused international calls for a ceasefire. Instead, there were several ceasefires during which residents of the northern Gaza Strip were expected to move south. This time window was also mentioned on Monday. According to the Israeli military, 700,000 residents of the Gaza Strip have already responded to repeated calls to evacuate. The United Nations speaks of 1.4 million internally displaced people in the densely populated area.
Although there were new rocket attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip in the morning, there was a knife attack on two police officers in Jerusalem. The 16-year-old attacker was shot after the knife attack at Herod’s Gate, Israeli police said. A 20-year-old police officer was taken to hospital in critical condition, where she later died. A man about the same age was slightly injured. According to police reports, the dead woman was from the USA.
Hundreds of fighters from Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, attacked Israel on October 7 and committed indiscriminate atrocities, especially against civilians, including many women and children, in several cities and at a music festival. According to Israeli data, 1,400 people were killed and more than 240 were taken hostage in the Gaza Strip. Israel then declared war on Hamas and placed the Gaza Strip under constant fire. According to Hamas figures, which cannot be independently verified, 10,022 people were killed, including 4,104 children.