The Israeli army announced it would take “operational control” of the Rimal district in Gaza City. “During inspections in the area, the armed forces discovered an underground terrorist city that is part of the Hamas terrorist organization’s tunnel system and includes a strategic route to other important underground infrastructure in the Gaza Strip,” the military’s statement said, also claiming the same Tunnels were used by Hamas leaders to “manage the organization’s operations” and “ensure daily protected movement through the heart of Gaza City.” Ismail Haniye and Mohammed Deif.
The commander of the 401st Brigade, Bani Aharon, explained that the military continues to fight hard in a densely populated area. “Hundreds of terrorists were eliminated by land and air,” he said. “We will continue to fight the enemy resolutely.”
“Face-to-face” fighting also continues in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, where “dozens of tunnels” have been destroyed and “intelligence material” has been found. The Israeli army explained that the exercise was accompanied by a “precise fire plan, known as a ‘ring of fire'” and that it was using “guided and precise weapons” to attack “hundreds of terrorist targets.” In addition, they found documents on the Islamist group’s “financial expenditures” in 2022, which included investments worth more than one million dollars (around 908,000 euros).
The lieutenant colonel Avijai AdraeeArab spokesman for the Israeli army, announced this Friday that they have begun asking residents of the city of Bureij, in the center of the Gaza Strip, to evacuate and head south to shelters in Deir al-Balah, due to the Israeli ground offensive there expands area.
Adraee warned that Gaza’s main north-south highway, Saladin, remained a “combat zone” in areas northeast of Khan Younis and that it would facilitate the movement of civilians via a bypass along the coast. He also said that for “humanitarian reasons” they would take “tactical pauses in military activities” in the western neighborhoods of Rafa in the southern Gaza Strip between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Victims in Gaza
Health authorities in the Gaza Strip reported that more than 20,000 Palestinians had died in the war between Israel and Hamas, which began after Hamas’s attack on 22 Israeli border communities on the 7th, which killed more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and around 240 were kidnapped. Hamas documented 20,057 dead and 53,320 injured on Friday. It does not distinguish between combatants and civilians and notes that about two-thirds of those killed are women or minors.
That figure represents nearly 1% of the territory’s population before the war, which has displaced more than 80% of Gaza’s population and devastated large swaths of the small coastal enclave in just over 10 weeks.
On the Israeli side, 140 soldiers have been confirmed dead since the ground offensive began on October 27th. Today it was announced that the major general is in the reserve Tal ShuaThe 31-year-old soldier from an engineer battalion was the highest-ranking soldier to die.
According to the Israeli Defense Forces, since the Hamas attack, if those killed in the war are included, the number of dead in the ranks of the Israeli army has risen to 471 and the number of wounded to 1,929, including 771 during the military operation in the Palestinian enclave .
Another Israeli hostage was killed
This was announced by Kibbutz Nir Oz Gadi Haggai, a 73-year-old resident who was kidnapped on October 7, has died. It did not say how it obtained the information, but said Haggai’s body remains in the hands of Hamas in Gaza. He was the father of four children and grandfather of seven children. His wife Judith She remains trapped and is said to have been injured in the attacks.
The two were taking a morning walk through the fields of the kibbutz when the October 7 attacks began. According to the “Hostage and Missing Families” forum, Judith had time to inform her friends by telephone before she was taken away that the two had been shot and Gadi had been seriously injured.
Lebanon suggests
The Lebanese Prime Minister, Najib Mikatiannounced today that it was ready to implement a UN resolution that would help end Hezbollah’s cross-border attacks on Israel if Israel also complies and withdraws from the disputed territory.
The Lebanon-Israel border has been the scene of an escalating exchange of fire since the start of the war between the Israeli army and the Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah, raising concerns of a major conflagration. UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, called for the withdrawal of armed Israeli and Shiite troops across the Litani River in Lebanon, where UN and Lebanese army peacekeepers were stationed.
But the retreat beyond the Litani River of Hezbollah, one of the world’s most heavily armed non-state entities, which has declared on many occasions its open intention to invade the Galilee, has been violated in more cases than reported.
“We are fully ready to commit to implementation, provided that the Israeli side does the same and withdraws from the occupied territory – in accordance with international laws and resolutions,” Mikati’s statement said. The area he is referring to is Mount Dov, also known as the Shebaa Farms, the hills of Kfar Jouba and the Lebanese side of Ghajar village. Meanwhile, Hezbollah announced that 121 members of its group have been killed since it began its attacks on Israel.