Israel’s army According to his own information, there was one on Thursday night Military operation in the central section of the Gaza Strip started.
In a statement from the army there was talk of a “precise operation based on intelligence information, with the aim of eliminating terrorist operatives and targeting terrorist infrastructure in the central sector of Gaza.
Before the advance of ground troops, combat aircraft attacked terrorist targets above and below ground. At least five Palestinians were killed in an airstrike on a home in the Nuseirat refugee neighborhood in the central part of the Gaza Strip, medics said.
Armed terrorist identified
The army said that during the night’s operation, soldiers “identified an armed terrorist who came out of a terror tunnel near Israeli troops and went into a military installation.” A fighter jet hit him as he approached the troops. Several rocket launch pads were also found. The Navy also fired on several targets in the area.
According to the Hamas-controlled health authority, 33,482 people have been killed and more than 76,000 others injured in the Gaza Strip since the Gaza war began more than six months ago. The numbers, which do not distinguish between fighters and civilians, cannot be independently verified.
USA is “ironically” loyal to Israel
The US has pledged its support to Israel in the face of threats from Iran. Like he is Israel’s head of government Benjamin Netanyahu said the US commitment to Israel’s security “is ironclad against these threats from Iran and its proxies,” said US President Joe Biden on Wednesday. “Let me say it again: ironclad.”
Also his foreign minister Antony Blinken reiterated in a conversation with the Israeli Defense Minister Joav GalantUS State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said late on Wednesday evening (local time) that the US would stand by its ally Israel in the face of “any threats from Iran and its proxies”. US intelligence reports indicated that an attack on Israeli facilities by Iran or its proxies could be imminent, reported the same day Wall Street Journal citing U.S. officials.
Report: Hamas rejects US ceasefire proposal
A compromise proposal put forward by the United States in the indirect ceasefire negotiations was largely rejected by Hamas Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed intermediaries.
The terrorist organization is instead planning to submit its own counterproposal. Meanwhile, Hamas circles in the Lebanese capital Beirut said that the negotiations remained in the status quo. Israel rejects a permanent end to the war without a decisive victory over Hamas. There is currently no official information on the current status of negotiations. After talks in Cairo, Hamas representatives left the Egyptian capital on Monday for consultations with their leadership.
Biden warns Netanyahu: aid deliveries for Gaza are not enough
US President Biden called on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to keep his promises to improve humanitarian care in Gaza. The relief supplies reaching the coastal area are not yet enough and must be increased, Biden said on Wednesday. At the press conference with Kishida in Washington, he responded to the question of what consequences he would draw if Netanyahu did not change his course and whether he would consider attaching conditions to further arms deliveries to Israel if in doubt.
The Democrat said: “We will see what he does to keep the promises he made to me.” Biden had recently sharply criticized Netanyahu publicly on several occasions and accused him, among other things, of saying that his actions in Gaza were a “mistake “.