2023-11-01 06:30:38
According to the Israeli military, 11 soldiers were killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. It is the biggest single-day loss for the armed forces since Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7, killing regarding 300 soldiers and 1,100 civilians. Most of the Israeli soldiers killed in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday were infantrymen whose vehicles were hit by anti-tank missiles, Archyde.com reported.
On the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) entered the West Bank to arrest senior members of the local branch of the Palestinian organization Fatah. The house of Fatah’s general secretary in Jenin, Ata Abu Ramila, was surrounded. Shootings are said to have occurred in several places in the city. Two Palestinians were killed and several injured in the fighting, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported online, citing Palestinian sources. On Monday, Fatah declared a “Day of Rage” across the West Bank and called on Palestinians to protest.
Late Tuesday evening, another drone or missile suspected of being fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels was intercepted off the coast of Israel’s southernmost city of Eilat. As the IDF announced on Twitter (X) on Wednesday night, an “air threat” had been intercepted south of the port city of Eilat. There was no danger to the civilian population and no infiltration of Israeli airspace, the report continued.
Just a few hours earlier, Houthi rebels said they had launched drone strikes once morest Israel. Israel said it had repelled a rocket from an area on the Red Sea. The Houthis, like Hamas in the Gaza Strip and other Shiite militias in Syria and Iraq, are supported by Iran.
The communication networks in the Gaza Strip have been completely cut off from the outside world since the night hours. The Internet and telephone connection was disconnected “from outside,” the largest telecommunications provider in the Palestinian territories, Paltel (Palestine Telecommunications Company), announced on Twitter (X) on Wednesday night. Just last week, the network was temporarily completely interrupted until it was restored over the weekend.
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