IDF and Shin Bet Eliminate Senior Hamas Officials at Gaza’s Shifa Hospital: Latest Updates and International Response

2024-03-31 00:22:00

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet security agency released the identities of senior officials of the Hamas terrorist group killed by troops during operations in Gaza’s Shifa Hospital.

The IDF stated that troops from the Navy’s Shayetet 13 unit, the Shaked Battalion of the Givati ​​Brigade and the Duvdevan unit eliminated a group of armed Hamas operatives who ran out of the Shifa emergency room.

Among them were senior commander Raad Thabet, the terrorist group’s head of recruitment and supply procurement, and Mahmoud Khalil Zakzuk, deputy commander of Hamas’ rocket unit in Gaza, according to the IDF.

On the other hand, reconnaissance troops from the Nahal Brigade killed senior operatives Fadi Dweik and Zakaria Najib during a chase at the Shifa maternity hospital, the Israeli Army said.

Mahmoud Khalil Zakzuk, Zakaria Najib, and Fadi Dweik (FDI)

According to the IDF and the Shin Bet, Dweik was a senior official in Hamas’s intelligence division. He carried out the 2002 terrorist shooting attack in the West Bank settlement of Adora, which killed four civilians, and was exiled to the Gaza Strip in the 2011 deal, in which Israel freed 1,027 Palestinian terrorist prisoners in exchange for the soldier Israeli captive Gilad Shalit.

Najib, for his part, was a senior Hamas operative in charge of promoting attacks once morest Israel from the West Bank.

He is accused of having participated in the kidnapping and murder of Nachshon Wachsman in 1994, and was also freed in the 2011 Shalit deal.

Likewise, other terrorists were killed by troops in the hospital. Weapons and intelligence documents were also seized, according to the IDF.

The office of the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, confirmed this Friday that the president has given his approval to the sending in the coming days to Doha (Qatar) and Cairo (Egypt) of a “high-level” delegation to discuss a halt the fire in Gaza and the release of the hostages held by Hamas.

“On the issue of negotiations for the release of the hostages, the prime minister spoke with the head of the Mossad and the head of the Shin Bet and authorized delegations on his behalf to travel to Doha and Cairo in the coming days to continue the negotiations. negotiations,” indicated the statement, collected by the Jerusalem Post.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. February 18, 2024. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File

The prime minister has let those responsible for his domestic and international intelligence and security services, David Barnea (head of the Mossad) and Ronen Bar (Shin Bet), know that they will have “room for maneuver” in the upcoming talks.

Barnea will lead the Israeli delegation to the Doha talks while Bar will head to Egypt, Netanyahu’s office adds.

On the other hand, the Government of Israel reaffirmed this Thursday its commitment to International Law and announced that it is intensifying its efforts to increase humanitarian aid to Gaza, coinciding with the decision of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to impose new provisional measures. once morest the country, following a request from South Africa on March 6 due to the humanitarian crisis in the region.

“As has been repeatedly stated, Israel is committed to international law, including with respect to allowing and facilitating the transfer of essential humanitarian aid to the civilian population in the Gaza Strip,” explained Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat. , in a statement released on the social network X.

Lior Haiat, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson (Government of Israel)

The Foreign Affairs representative defended that “Israel does not impose limitations on the amount of essential humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip, including in particular food, water, shelter equipment and medicine,” claiming that “it does not wish any harm to the population.” civil”.

Likewise, Haiat guaranteed that “Israel will continue to promote new initiatives and expand existing ones to allow and facilitate the flow of aid to the Gaza Strip in a continuous and extensive manner, by land, air and sea, together with United Nations agencies and others. partners of the international community.

(With information from Europa Press)

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