Israel's steps to enable aid Gaza I am “far below what is necessary“said the special coordinator of United Nations For the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland speaks before the UN Security Council in the Gaza Strip.
“Israel is ready for a further humanitarian pause and other assistance to enable the release of the hostages,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog said at a meeting with foreign ambassadors, emphasizing that “the responsibility now lies entirely with Sinwar and the United States . “Leadership of Hamas”.
The Israeli army is conducting a targeted operation in the center RafahSouth of Gazahe eliminated Subhi Ferwanais considered, along with his brother, one of the largest financiers of Hamas. The military spokesman said that Ferwana “has been involved in transferring tens of millions of dollars to the terrorist organization Hamas and its military wing in recent years through his money exchange company 'Hamsat'.”
“Hamas and its military wing – added the military spokesman – rely on these resources, without which their capabilities are limited.” Ferwana was “able to transfer funds to the military wing of Hamas, as the war required “, he continued. The funds, he explained, were used “to pay salaries to terrorists during the war and to finance the Hamas war.” According to the military spokesman, the Islamic faction “uses financiers to receive funds transferred from Iran and various other collection points abroad. Money changers carry out the transfers using the money cleaning and money laundering method, bypassing the international financial system.”
The Palestinian Agency Wafa He also reported that “at dawn this morning, Israeli bombings focused on Rafah and….” Khan Yunisin the south of the strip.” Medical and local sources – reported by Wafa – reported at least 25 Palestinian civilians killed.” Including – he added – “women and children” in the raid that hit “three houses” of two families became.
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The Israeli army says there is a particularly busy situation in Khan Yunis, the capital in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. According to the military spokesman, in the morning there was a firefight with a group of armed men equipped with RPG rocket launchers who were eliminated. In Gaza City's Shejaiya district, army bomb squads managed to defuse a bomb hidden in a clinic not far from a school. During searches in the area, numerous weapons (including Kalashnikov rifles) and ammunition were found. According to the army, another Hamas military tunnel has been identified along the coastal road in Gaza City. Its entrance was shelled by warplanes, “resulting in the deaths of a large number of terrorists.”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) also announced that they had destroyed the house in Aqraba during the night West Bank, a Palestinian believed to be responsible for the murder of two Israelis – father and son – last August in a garage in Huwara, a town in the territories. Shai (60 years old) and Aviad Nigarkar (28) were originally from Ashdod and were hit by the Palestinian while they were getting their car washed. As part of the operations in the West Bank, the military spokesman announced the arrest of ten wanted Palestinians, including four suspected of having ties to Hamas, as well as the confiscation of weapons and money.
On television, the army simulates a massacre of Jews in a colony in the West Bank
The Israeli army recently faked a massacre of Jewish civilians by armed Palestinians in remote locations near Jenin (northern West Bank). This was reported by the commercial television channel Channel 12. The scenarios took into account the possibility that such a massacre could take place not only in the Jewish settlements near Jenin, but also in areas of Israeli territory just a few kilometers from the West Bank: for example on the slopes of Mount Gilboa or in Wadi Ara.
Channel 12 added that this exercise, conducted by a brigade operating in Jenin, did not simulate another emergency situation: that is, that the Palestinian Authority security apparatus would have opened fire on Israelis in the area. However, according to the broadcaster, such a development is being considered by the Israeli government.
Meanwhile, the distribution of weapons has increased in recent weeks “Emergency teams”made up of volunteers organized in every West Bank settlement and border towns.
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