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The navy stated Tuesday it had killed one of many leaders of the Oct. 7 Hamas bloodbath in Israel, Nasim Abu Ajina, including that his demise “considerably harms” Hamas efforts to combat off Israeli floor forces.
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The navy stated a soldier captured during Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 incursion was rescued in Gaza – the primary rescue for the reason that weekslong war started. Military officers supplied few particulars however stated in a press release that Pvt. Ori Megidish, 19, was “doing properly” and had met along with her household.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed her residence, saying the “achievement” by Israel’s safety forces “illustrates our dedication to free all of the hostages.”
He additionally rejected requires a cease-fire to facilitate the discharge of captives or finish the struggle, which he has stated will likely be lengthy and tough. “Calls for a cease-fire are requires Israel to give up to Hamas,” he advised a information convention. “That won’t occur.”
Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, an Israeli navy spokesman, declined to touch upon the place Israeli forces are deployed, however stated further forces had entered Gaza and operations would proceed to “increase and intensify.”
The navy stated troops have killed dozens of militants who attacked from inside buildings and tunnels. It stated Monday that, up to now few days, it had struck greater than 600 militant targets, together with weapons depots and anti-tank missile launching positions. Palestinian militants have continued firing rockets into Israel, together with towards its industrial hub, Tel Aviv.
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On Tuesday, the IDF stated it had carried out some 300 extra airstrikes and floor forces had “engaged with militants.”
Hamas stated its fighters clashed with Israeli troops who entered from the northwest. It was not potential to independently affirm battlefield claims made by both facet.
Netanyahu, who faces mounting anger over Israel’s failure to forestall the worst shock assault on the nation in a half century, additionally stated he had no plans to resign.
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Hamas and different militant teams are believed to be holding some 240 captives, together with males, ladies and kids. Netanyahu has confronted growing stress to safe their launch whilst Israel acts to crush Hamas and finish its 16-year rule over the territory.
Hamas, which has launched 4 hostages, has stated it could let the others go in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, together with many implicated in lethal assaults on Israelis. Israel has dismissed the supply, and Netanyahu stated the bottom invasion “creates the chance” of getting the hostages out, including that Hamas will “solely do it underneath stress.”
Hamas launched a brief video Monday purporting to point out three different feminine captives. One delivers a short assertion – doubtless underneath duress – criticizing Israel’s response to the hostage disaster.
It was not clear when the Hamas video was made. CBS News often refrains from reporting particulars of hostage movies as a result of they present people talking underneath duress and are sometimes used for propaganda functions.
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Amos Aloni, whose daughter Danielle appeared within the video, advised reporters that he and his spouse had been shocked to see her on TV however felt “aid from her being alive and seeing her.”
The U.S. is offering weapons shipments on an virtually each day foundation to Israel, Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh advised reporters.
Despite the rising variety of civilian casualties, “we aren’t placing any limits on how Israel makes use of weapons,” Singh stated. “That is admittedly as much as the Israeli Defense Force (IDF).”
The Israeli navy has been imprecise about its operations inside Gaza, together with the placement and variety of troops. Israel has declared a new “phase” in the war however stopped wanting declaring an all-out floor invasion.
Larger ground operations have been launched each north and east of Gaza City. Israel says lots of Hamas’ forces and far of its militant infrastructure, together with lots of of miles of tunnels, are in Gaza City, which earlier than the struggle was residence to over 650,000 individuals, a inhabitants akin to that of Washington, D.C.
Gaza civilians in peril
Though Israel ordered Palestinians to go away the north, the place Gaza City is positioned, and transfer south, lots of of hundreds stay, partly as a result of Israel has additionally bombarded targets in so-called secure zones. Around 117,000 displaced individuals hoping for security are staying in hospitals in northern Gaza, alongside hundreds of sufferers and employees, in keeping with U.N. figures.
The U.N. company for Palestinian refugees, often known as UNRWA, says almost 672,000 Palestinians are sheltering in its faculties and different services, which have reached 4 occasions their capability.
UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini accused Israel of “collective punishment” of the Palestinians and of forcing their displacement from northern Gaza to the south, the place they’re nonetheless not secure.
The demise toll amongst Palestinians handed 8,300, largely ladies and kids, the Hamas-controlled Gaza Health Ministry stated Monday. The determine is with out precedent in a long time of Israeli-Palestinian violence. More than 1.4 million individuals in Gaza have fled their properties.
Over 1,400 individuals have died on the Israeli facet, Israel says, primarily civilians killed throughout Hamas’ preliminary assault, additionally an unprecedented determine.
Lazzarini stated 64 of the company’s employees had been killed up to now three weeks, the newest simply hours earlier than he addressed an emergency U.N. Security Council assembly, when an company safety official was killed along with his spouse and eight kids.
Most Palestinians in Gaza “really feel trapped in a struggle they don’t have anything to do with,” he stated.
Video circulating on social media confirmed an Israeli tank and bulldozer in central Gaza blocking the territory’s fundamental north-south freeway.
The video, taken by an area journalist, exhibits a automotive approaching an earth barrier throughout the street. The automotive stops and turns round. As it heads away, a tank seems to open hearth, and an explosion engulfs the automotive. The journalist, in one other automotive, races away in terror, screaming, “Go again! Go again!” at approaching automobiles.
The Gaza Health Ministry later stated three individuals had been killed within the automotive that was hit.
Hospitals now a hazard zone
Meanwhile, crowded hospitals in northern Gaza got here underneath rising menace.
Gaza’s Health Ministry shared video footage that appeared to point out an explosion and a column of smoke close to the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital for most cancers sufferers. The hospital director, Dr. Sobhi Skaik, stated it had sustained harm in a strike that endangered sufferers.
All 10 hospitals working in northern Gaza have acquired evacuation orders, the U.N.’s workplace for the coordination of humanitarian affairs stated. Staff have refused to go away, saying evacuation would imply demise for sufferers on ventilators.
Strikes hit inside 50 yards of Al Quds Hospital after it acquired two calls from Israeli authorities on Sunday ordering it to evacuate, the Palestinian Red Crescent rescue service stated. Some home windows had been blown out, and rooms had been lined in particles. It stated 14,000 persons are sheltering there.
Israel says it targets Hamas fighters and infrastructure and that the militants function amongst civilians, placing them in peril.
Beyond the preventing, circumstances for civilians in Gaza are frequently deteriorating.
With no central energy for weeks and little gasoline, hospitals are struggling to maintain emergency turbines working to function incubators and different life-saving gear. UNRWA has been attempting to maintain water pumps and bakeries working.
On Sunday, the biggest convoy of humanitarian assist but – 33 vehicles – entered the territory from Egypt, and one other 26 entered Monday. Relief staff say the quantity remains to be far lower than what is required for the inhabitants of two.3 million individuals.
The preventing has raised considerations that the violence may unfold throughout the area. Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have engaged in each day skirmishes alongside Israel’s northern border.
The U.S. blames a spike in rocket and drone assaults — no less than 14 in Iraq and 9 in Syria since October 17 — on Iran-backed forces, and performed strikes final week in Syria on websites the Pentagon stated had been linked to Tehran.
In the occupied West Bank, Israel carried out airstrikes Monday towards militants clashing with its forces within the Jenin refugee camp. Hamas stated 4 of its fighters had been killed there. As of Sunday, Israeli forces and settlers have killed 123 Palestinians, together with 33 minors, within the West Bank, half of them throughout search-and-arrest operations, the U.N. stated.
