2023-11-03 09:16:52
In the largely evacuated border town of Kissufim, warning sirens wailed early in the morning. There were initially no reports of injuries or damage. According to the military, more than 8,000 rockets have been fired at Israeli towns from the Gaza Strip since the start of the war. The Islamist Hamas, which rules in the coastal area, took responsibility for a large part. It is classified as a terrorist organization by the USA and the EU.
Israel said terrorists fired anti-tank missiles, detonated explosive devices and attempted to climb onto Israeli soldiers’ vehicles in the Gaza Strip. They were killed in the process. At the same time, the emergency services launched air strikes with combat aircraft and artillery, it said. The terrorists were killed and the danger to the troops was averted. “The result was that they (the terrorists) were killed and we continue our operation. Until victory,” the army continued.
According to two insiders, the USA is flying surveillance drones over the Gaza Strip in search of Israeli hostages. The drone flights have been underway for over a week, according to one of the people familiar with the matter. The United States believes that there may be ten Americans among the more than 200 hostages kidnapped by Hamas whose whereregardings are unknown.
The Secretary General of the Shiite Hezbollah in Lebanon wants to address the public on Friday followingnoon for the first time since the beginning of the Gaza war. Preparations were underway across the country for Hassan Nasrallah’s eagerly awaited speech. This might mark a turning point in the current Gaza war. Hezbollah is backed by Iran and is allied with the Palestinian militant organization Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. A memorial ceremony for the killed Hezbollah fighters has been officially announced – but Nasrallah’s statements might also indicate whether the Hezbollah militia will increasingly join the war between Israel and the Islamist Hamas. Nasrallah lives in secret and rarely appears in public. It was initially unclear whether the Hezbollah leader himself would appear publicly. The speech will be broadcast on live television. On Thursday evening, the pro-Iranian Shiite organization released two promotional videos for the appearance.
Meanwhile, the United Arab Emirates warns of the risk of regional spillover from the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “As we continue to work to stop this war, we cannot ignore the regional impact and the need to cool the overheated situation,” Noura al-Kaabi, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, told a political conference in the capital Abu Dhabi . The risk of regional spillover and further escalation is real, as is the risk that extremist groups will use the situation to spread ideologies that trap everyone in a cycle of violence.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once once more criticized Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip. “Crimes once morest humanity have been committed in Gaza for exactly 28 days,” Erdogan said on Friday. The Turkish head of state had previously described the Islamist Hamas as a liberation organization and accused Israel of “barbarism”.
After increased attacks on the Gaza Strip in recent days, the Israeli army says it has surrounded Gaza City. “Our soldiers have completed the encirclement of the city of Gaza, the center of the terrorist organization Hamas,” military spokesman Daniel Hagari said on Thursday evening. Hamas, for its part, threatened that Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip would return home “in body bags.”
Thousands of Gaza workers working in Israel and the West Bank were sent back to the Gaza Strip this Friday, according to eyewitnesses. Some of them returned to the coastal strip via the Kerem Shalom border crossing.
Since Hamas’s bloody terrorist attacks began on October 7, which left 1,400 dead, Israel says it has attacked more than 12,000 targets in the Gaza Strip. Israeli ground troops are now also advancing there once morest Hamas terrorists and military targets. Hamas continues to fire rockets into Israeli territory. According to the Ministry of Health, which it controls, more than 9,000 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip so far.
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