Hamas deputy political bureau chief Saleh Arouri was killed in an Israeli strike in a Beirut suburb. Hezbollah security forces told the French-Lebanese newspaper “L'Orient de Jour”.
Hamas television has confirmed Israel's “assassination” of the group's deputy leader in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Saleh al-Arouri was killed in a “cowardly Zionist attack,” Hamas said on its official channel.
It was announced this morning that Israel's War Cabinet met at the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv. So far there has been no comment from the Israeli side about the attack in Beirut.
Hamas is “open” to the idea of a Palestinian unity government for the West Bank and Gaza Strip: the movement's leader, Ismail Haniyeh, said in a televised speech.
The Hamas Ministry of Health announces a new death toll of 22,185 in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli air and tank attacks in the southern Gaza Strip intensified overnight, residents said, the Times of Israel reported.
According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, 15 Palestinian civilians were killed and several others injured last night in an Israeli shelling that hit a house in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Media: Israel attacks Hamas office in Beirut
According to Lebanese state media, Israel attacked a Hamas office on the outskirts of Beirut. An Israeli drone hit a Hamas office in the southern suburbs of Beirut today. Lebanese state media reported this, adding that some people were injured.
“A hostile Israeli drone targeted a Hamas office in Al-Musharrafiya, near Al-Sharq Sweets, and a number of people were injured,” in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of Iran-backed Hezbollah, it said the National News Agency of Lebanon (NNA). ).
Haniyeh, we will only release hostages on Hamas' terms
Israeli hostages held in Gaza will only be released under “conditions” set by Hamas. Their leader Ismail Haniyeh said this in a televised speech today. “The enemy’s prisoners will only be released under the conditions set by the resistance,” Haniyeh said.
Gallant: “The feeling that we are about to stop is wrong”
“The feeling that we are going to stop right away is not right.” “If we don't assert ourselves clearly, we would not be able to resist in the Middle East,” said Defense Minister Yoav Gallant during an inspection in the Gaza Strip today. “The war,” he added, “is now in Khan Yunis.” We are trying in several passages, both above the tunnels and in the depths. “We come (to the leaders of Hamas, editor’s note) from all directions.”
The army has ordered residents of Nusseirat (in the southern part of the Gaza Strip) to move further south towards Deir el Ballah as it expands its operations.
Israel, Hamas command taken over in eastern Gaza
At the end of a series of battles, some of which took place at close range, Israeli forces managed to take control of the Hamas military command in the east of the Gaza Strip. This was announced by the military spokesman. It consists, he specified, of 37 buildings within a civilian residential area that includes hospitals, schools and condominiums. The Hamas command was connected to a network of tunnels. The military found the entrances to five important tunnels. The command bunker from which Hamas managed the phases of the war was located 20 meters underground.
During the patrols, the soldiers of the elite Shaldag unit engaged in firefights and destroyed the Hamas troops on the spot. The underground area was then blown up. During this operation there were three fatalities in Israel: an officer and two non-commissioned officers.
The first British ship carrying humanitarian aid has arrived in Egypt
The first British humanitarian aid ship for Gaza has arrived in Egypt carrying around 90 tonnes of thermal blankets and medical supplies. The Foreign Office announced this in a statement. The cargo arrived in Port Said aboard the Lyme Bay and will then be distributed to the population of the Gaza Strip through the UN agency UNRWA. “Much more aid needs to reach Gaza to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people. The UK will continue to work with our partners in the region to open more routes to Gaza, including via the proposed maritime corridor between Cyprus and Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories, “said British Foreign Secretary David Cameron.
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