2024-01-06 19:00:00
Israel kills Hamas commanders
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Shin Bet intelligence service announced that the commander of the Nuseirat battalion of the Hamas terrorist group, Ismail Siraj, and his deputy, Ahmed Wahaba, were killed in an airstrike this evening in the Gaza Strip. Loop.
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The IDF explained that the Nuseirat battalion, which operated in the center of the Palestinian enclave, carried out the massacre in Kibbutz Be’eri – where more than 100 Israelis were murdered – and other border communities during the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7. .
And they noted that the battalion has also participated in launching anti-tank missiles and drones against Israeli troops operating in Gaza in recent months.
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Additionally, according to the joint IDF-Shin Bet statement, Siraj was also involved in rocket manufacturing and had previously been a company commander of Hamas’ Nukhba force. Wahaba, his deputy, was appointed to the position after the previous deputy commander of the Nuseirat battalion was killed by the IDF in the first weeks of the war.
Ismail Siraj and Ahmed Wahaba
On the other hand, the Israeli Army also launched this Saturday a series of ground and air attacks against Hezbollah positions in Lebanon, in response to the launch by the Lebanese Shiite group of more than sixty projectiles against an intelligence center of the forces. Israelis.
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In a statement, the Israeli Army explained that the areas of Metula and Margaliot in northern Israel were attacked from southern Lebanon, as well as Meron, where it has one of its main intelligence centers. “In response, an Israeli Air Force drone attacked a terrorist cell responsible for those launches toward Metula,” he noted.
In addition, Israeli aviation and ground forces launched attacks against Hezbollah targets such as missile launch sites, military positions and infrastructure of the Shiite group in several areas of southern Lebanon such as Ayta ash Shab, Yaroun and Ramyeh, according to the statement.
Israeli soldiers and vehicles move through the interior of Gaza, near the border with Israel, this January 6, 2024 (REUTERS/Amir Cohen)
The war between Israel and Hamas has multiplied tensions in the region, where Iranian-backed groups in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen have shown solidarity with the Palestinian terrorist group.
The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, began a tour of the Middle East this Saturday amid fears that the conflict will spread throughout the region. According to the State Department program, Blinken will visit five Arab countries, the Palestinian enclave of the West Bank, Turkey and Greece, in addition to stopping in Israel.
State Department spokesman Matthew Miller indicated that Blinken will speak with Palestinian officials in the occupied West Bank and with Israeli officials, and that he will discuss “immediate measures to substantially increase humanitarian aid to Gaza.”
An Israeli military post seen from the town of Dhira, in Lebanon (Photo: EuropaPress)
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared on Thursday that his country preferred “a political solution” to the border clashes, but stated that “the time window for this is short.”
That Thursday Gallant publicly presented a post-war plan that suggests that neither Israel nor Hamas govern the Gaza Strip and rejects the establishment of Jewish settlements there.
According to the plan laid out by Gallant, the war will continue until Israel has dismantled the “military and governance capabilities” of Hamas. After achieving that goal, Palestinian “civil committees” will begin to assume control of the territory. “The inhabitants of Gaza are Palestinians. Consequently, Palestinian entities will be in charge (of management) on the condition that there is no hostile action or threat against the State of Israel,” he added.
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