2023-12-15 11:31:10
On Friday, the Israeli army announced that it had targeted sites in the Gaza Strip near the border with Egypt, using military fighters and air force drones.
The Israeli army revealed, in a statement, that during this week, combat aircraft, combat helicopters and air force drones destroyed military sites, guard points, observation points, weapons depots, and command and control rooms belonging to Hamas’s public security services, in the border area between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
The army statement explained, “Hamas militants were operating from the sites that were attacked in the Rafah area,” noting that these sites “assisted in the smuggling operations carried out by the movement, which included smuggling combat equipment and exposing army soldiers working in the Gaza Strip and Israeli citizens as general danger.”
The statement indicated that targeting these infrastructures “harms the terrorist organization’s ability to smuggle more weapons into the Gaza Strip.”
The same source stated that the security services affiliated with Hamas “exploit their presence and work with the aim of plundering the humanitarian resources entering the Gaza Strip, and to support efforts to smuggle more weapons, not to mention the participation of members of these services in the terrorist operations carried out by Hamas against the Israeli army forces in the Strip.” Gaza”.
Areas in southern Gaza were subjected to Israeli artillery shelling and intense raids, on Friday night and morning, resulting in the killing of 18 people in Rafah, and 33 others in an artillery bombardment in Khan Yunis, according to Al Hurra’s correspondent.
The correspondent revealed that other separate raids were recorded in the neighborhoods of Al-Daraj, Al-Shuja’iya, and Al-Zaytoun, east of Gaza City, and severe clashes in Sheikh Radwan, west of Gaza City.
She reported that the Nasser Medical Complex in the city of Khan Yunis faces “major challenges” due to the intensive Israeli operations, the high number of injured people, and the continued bombing.
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said, “Vaccinations for children have completely run out, and hospitals in the north are out of service.”
The Ministry revealed, “The conditions of hospitals in the south are very difficult, as the wounded are crowded together in the corridors of hospitals.”
For the second day in a row, communications and Internet services continue to be interrupted in the central and southern Gaza Strip, and in parts of Gaza City in the north.
The Palestinian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology announced, on Thursday, a complete interruption of all communications and Internet services for Paltel and Ooredoo in the central and southern Gaza Strip, due to the ongoing Israeli bombing of the Strip.
Paltel and Ooredoo, the two main companies in Gaza, confirmed that communication and Internet services had “completely stopped.”
They said in a statement: “We regret announcing a complete interruption of all communications and Internet services with the Gaza Strip due to the ongoing aggression.”
The Palestine Red Crescent Society revealed that it “completely lost contact with the operations room in the Gaza Strip, and with all its crews working there, in light of the Israeli authorities completely cutting off landline, cellular, and Internet communications networks, for the fifth time since the beginning of the bombing.”
The Israeli army announced on Friday that it had been recovered during an operation in the Gaza Strip، The bodies of two Israeli soldiers were taken hostage.
The army stated, “During an operation in Gaza, Israeli soldiers recovered the bodies of the two hostages, Nick Beiser (19 years old), and Ron Sherman (19 years old), and they were transferred to Israel.”
The army had previously announced that it had recovered the body of the French-Israeli hostage, Elijah Toledano, who was kidnapped during the Tribe of Nova music festival in southern Israel.
The army has recovered eight bodies so far and estimates the number of hostages, living or dead, still in the Gaza Strip at 132.
The Israeli army also announced, on Friday, the killing of a soldier who died on Thursday fighting in Gaza, bringing to 117 the number of soldiers killed since the start of its ground attack in the Strip on October 27.
A seven-day truce that ended on December 1 allowed 105 to be released.
The war broke out between Israel and Hamas after a surprise attack launched by the movement on military sites and residential areas adjacent to the Gaza Strip, which led to the killing of 1,200 people, most of them civilians, including women and children, and 239 people were kidnapped, according to the Israeli authorities.
Israel responded with intense air, sea and ground bombardment on the besieged Gaza Strip, followed by a ground operation. Since the start of the war, 18,787 people have been killed in Gaza, most of them women and children, and 50,897 were injured, according to what the Hamas Ministry of Health announced in its latest figures, Thursday.
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