Israel’s Military Offensive: Isael Destroyed Hamas Command Post in Gaza, Recovered Abductees and Netanyahu Maintains Dispute

2023-12-15 08:32:00

Israel destroyed a Hamas command post in Gaza

Smoke following an Israeli bombing in the Shejaiya district of Gaza. EFE/EPA/ATEF SAFADI

Israel claimed this Friday to have destroyed a command post of the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza, in its military offensive in the Palestinian Strip.

”The command and control center of the Hamas Shejaiya Battalion was destroyed,” according to a statement from the Israeli Army.

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) claimed to have killed members of the terrorist group at the scene, without detailing how many, and to have destroyed a tunnel used by Hamas.

Israeli aviation, tanks and ground troops participated in the operation, with support “for the first time” in the Israeli military offensive in the Palestinian enclave of a Maoz drone to attack Hamas, according to the statement.

Israel recovered the bodies of two other soldiers kidnapped in Gaza

Israel recovered the body of two other abductees in Gaza, in an operation in the Palestinian Strip, the Army reported this Friday.

The bodies, which were taken to Israel to be identified, correspond to Sergeant Ron Sherman, 19, and Private Nik Beizer, of the same age, according to an Army statement.

Both were kidnapped when they were on duty in a unit that guarded crossings between Gaza and Israel, in the attack launched on October 7 by the Hamas terrorist group in Israeli territory, according to this source.

A ship caught fire following being hit by an “unknown object” in the Red Sea: the US blamed the Houthi rebels

The cargo ship ‘Galaxy Leader’, seized by the Houthis off the coast of the Yemeni port of Al Salif in the Red Sea on December 5, 2023 EFE/EPA/YAHYA ARHAB/File

The British Navy said today that an “unknown object” hit a ship, causing a fire on board, with no casualties reported so far, in one of the latest incidents this Friday on the strategic trade route.

This attack takes place regarding 60 miles southwest of Al Hodeida, one of Yemen’s main ports on the Red Sea, according to the source.

Furthermore, the British Navy has updated its information on another incident that took place today in the vicinity of the Bab al Mandeb Strait, regarding 50 miles north of the port of Mokha, in Yemen.

The informant indicated that “a small white boat with a black hood with 10 people on board who declared themselves to be Yemeni authorities ordered a ship to alter course towards Yemen.”

On previous occasions, it is Yemen’s Shiite Houthi rebels who have declared themselves as “Yemeni authorities” in their campaign to attack any ship heading towards Israel.

So far, no group has claimed responsibility for these incidents and further details of the two ships that have been attacked are unknown.

Israel recovered the body of one of those kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip

The identification of the body was coordinated between military doctors, the Institute of Forensic Medicine and the Israel Police (EUROPA PRESS/ARCHIVE)

Israel recovered the body of one of those kidnapped in Gaza in a military operation in the Palestinian Strip, the Israeli Army reported this Friday.

The body of Elia Toledano, 28, was taken to Israel following being recovered by special forces of its Army, as detailed in a statement.

The identification of the body was coordinated between military doctors, the Institute of Forensic Medicine and the Israel Police.

Israeli media indicated that Toledano was kidnapped by the Islamist group Hamas in the attack once morest Israel on October 7 when he was participating in a party with a friend, who was also taken hostage but was later one of those released in an exchange with Palestinians. prisoners in Israel.

At that party, many of the nearly 1,200 killed by the attack died and several of the 240 hostages taken to the Strip were captured.

With the recovery of Elia Toledano’s body, 134 hostages remain in Gaza in the hands of Hamas and other militias, 18 of them already deceased.

Among those kidnapped are 123 Israelis, 8 Thais, a Nepali, a Tanzanian and a French-Mexican, according to data from the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel.

Netanyahu insisted that the fighting in Gaza will not end “until Hamas is eliminated”

The Israeli premier held a meeting with the US national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, whom he recognized for Washington’s support in the midst of the war once morest terrorists

Netanyahu insisted that the fighting in Gaza will not end “until Hamas is eliminated” (REUTERS/FILE)

The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, insisted once more this Thursday in a meeting with the US national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, that the war in the Gaza Strip will not end “until Hamas is eliminated,” before the discrepancies that have arisen in recent days between both countries in this regard.

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