2023-10-26 23:33:20
Limited ground incursion and bunker busting bombs on the 20th day of the war
Israel killed two leaders of the “Al-Qassam Brigades” affiliated with the “Hamas” movement, namely the commander of the missile system in the northern Khan Yunis region, Hassan Al-Abdullah, and the deputy head of the “Al-Qassam” intelligence service, Shadi Baroud, and thousands of others, most of them women and children, in intense bombing that day. The 20th anniversary of the war on the Gaza Strip, which also witnessed a limited ground incursion and the targeting of an Israeli plane in the skies of Gaza, and bombing of Tel Aviv and other Israeli areas, and ended with Al-Qassam announcing that 50 Israeli prisoners in the Strip were killed as a result of the continuous Israeli bombing.
Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari announced on Thursday, in joint statements with the Shin Bet Security Service, that “fighter planes guided by intelligence information” had assassinated the leaders of the “Al-Qassam Brigades,” Al-Abdullah and Baroud, indicating that the latter was responsible for planning the attacks that Hamas launched it on October 7, in coordination with Yahya Al-Sanwar, the Hamas official in Gaza.
Destruction as a result of Israeli raids on Khan Yunis today, Thursday (EPA)
By assassinating Al-Abdullah and Baroud, Israel has killed many of the leaders of Al-Qassam, along with members of the political bureau of Hamas, but it has not reached the first level and its most important goal, such as the leader of Al-Qassam, Muhammad Al-Deif, and the leader of Hamas in Gaza. Yahya Al-Sinwar and Marwan Issa, known as the “shadow man,” who is Al-Deif’s deputy, and Israel considers them the three most important goals it wants to reach in Gaza.
Al-Qassam leaders were killed in two attacks out of 250 attacks launched by Israeli aircraft during the past 24 hours in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army said that it attacked 250 Hamas targets, including “infrastructure, operational command headquarters, tunnel openings, and rocket launchers installed in a civilian environment.”
Israeli media confirmed that the Israeli army used types of bunker-busting bombs in its raids, in order to attack Hamas underground, including tunnels.
Displaced Palestinians in a UN-run camp in Khan Yunis today (AFP)
But most of the victims who arrived at hospitals were women and children. The Palestinian Ministry of Health, affiliated with Hamas in Gaza, accused Israel of committing 43 massacres in 24 hours, killing 481 Palestinians, the majority of whom were displaced to the southern Gaza Strip, which Israel says is a “safe” area to which residents of the northern part of the Strip must move.
The Ministry of Health announced that the toll of the Israeli attacks on Gaza “reached 7,028 martyrs; Among them are 2,913 children, 1,709 women, and 397 elderly people, in addition to 18,484 citizens sustaining various injuries since October 7th. The Ministry explained that 70 percent of the victims were children and women, noting that “149 Palestinian families lost 10 or more of their members in the occupation’s aggression once morest Gaza, while 123 families lost between 6 and 9 members, and 416 families lost between two and five of their members.” Its members.”
Destruction in Gaza City Thursday (AP)
Minister of Works and Housing, Muhammad Ziara, spoke regarding Israel’s destruction of regarding 200,000 housing units, which represents more than 25 percent of the populated areas in the Gaza Strip, which left 1,950 people missing under the rubble, in addition to the announced victims’ numbers.
By bombing citizens’ homes, Israel seeks to force them to displace and evacuate their homes by force.
Although there are one million and four hundred thousand displaced people in Gaza, according to official figures, Israel wants a complete evacuation of the northern region, including hospitals there, in preparation for the postponed second phase, which is the ground invasion.
At dawn on Thursday, Israel carried out a limited tank incursion into the northern Gaza Strip, led by the “Givati Brigade,” as part of “preparing conditions in the region in preparation for the subsequent stages of the fighting.”
Part of the funeral of victims of Israeli raids on Khan Yunis on Thursday (Archyde.com)
The army statement said, “As part of the activity, the forces detected and targeted many saboteurs, destroyed terrorist infrastructure and anti-tank missile launch sites, carried out work to tidy up the area, and left following completing the mission.”
The Al-Qassam Brigades did not comment on the Israeli statement, which was attached to aerial photos, but said that it targeted a helicopter east of Bureij with a Sam-7 missile and hit it.
The “Al-Qassam Brigades” also announced the bombing of Tel Aviv, the Third Eye, Ashkelon, Ashdod, and the Nirim site with missiles early Thursday, and then launched a large salvo in the evening that struck Tel Aviv and its suburbs, Ben Gurion Airport, Beersheba, and towns and cities around the Gaza Strip, “in response to the targeting of civilians in the Strip.” ». She said that the Israeli raids killed approximately 50 prisoners in the Gaza Strip out of regarding 240 prisoners.
The Al-Qassam announcement came at a time when Egyptian and Qatari mediators were trying to reach an agreement guaranteeing the release of civilian prisoners from Gaza in exchange for a humanitarian truce.
Israeli tanks during training in the Galilee on Thursday (AFP)
The Gaza Strip is experiencing an unprecedented crisis with the interruption of fuel, electricity, water, medicine, food, and basic needs, and all of this heralds the collapse of the most important sectors, including the health sector.
Oxfam said that Israel is using the starvation policy as a weapon of war once morest civilians in Gaza, and renewed its call to allow food, water, fuel and other necessities to enter the Gaza Strip. Oxfam’s regional director in the Middle East and North Africa, Sally Abi Khalil, said: “The situation is absolutely horrific!” Where is humanity? Millions of civilians in Gaza are being subjected to collective punishment in full view of the world. There can be no justification for using starvation as a weapon of war. “World leaders cannot continue to sit and watch. They must act, and act now.”
For its part, Hamas called for a mass Palestinian, Arab and Islamic movement, on Friday, to demand the opening of the Rafah crossing and an end to the “war of extermination” that Israel is waging once morest the Gaza Strip.
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