Middle East, Israel: 450 targets hit in Gaza – video

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have carried out attacks on more than 450 targets of the Islamist armed groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip and ground operations are ongoing. This was announced by the IDF, according to which military sites, observation points and weapons depots were hit.

Israeli Air Force drones killed “numerous” Hamas members in targeted attacks Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. In another operation, one of the arrested militiamen revealed the presence of a location from which rockets were fired at Israel. The operations of the Israeli Navy which hit Hamas sites in the central and southern Gaza Strip.

Two months after the start of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, fighting continues Gaza Strip and particularly in the south, where the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have increased their attacks. But that’s not all: Tensions also remain high on the border between the Jewish state and Lebanon, where clashes continue between the IDF and the pro-Iranian Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah. During an operational assessment with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Chief of Staff General Herzi Halevi, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahusaid that if Hezbollah “decides to launch an all-out war, it will single-handedly turn Beirut and southern Lebanon, not far from here, into Gaza and Khan Yunis.” The head of Israel’s executive branch was referring to the air and ground operation in Gaza, which the IDF launched after the Palestinian Islamist group’s attack on October 7.

Meanwhile, the head of Hamas’ political bureau said, Ismail HaniyehHe told Egypt’s Al Qahera News that a possible new phase of negotiations with Israel “depends on the complete cessation of Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip.” “We are ready to resume negotiations for the exchange of all hostages as part of a comprehensive agreement as soon as the aggression and bombing stop,” Haniyeh said, adding: “If the Israeli occupation completely ceases fire and withdraws from all areas of the Gaza withdraws, at what point.” Negotiations could begin through our brothers in Egypt and Qatar. Negotiations are not possible under enemy fire.”

Following the Hamas terrorist attack in Israel on October 7, Israeli forces attacked the infrastructure of armed Islamist groups in the Gaza Strip. Then on November 24, Israel and Hamas, brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the United States, reached an agreement that would see the release of about 100 Israeli hostages from Gaza – where 138 are still held – in return for the release of about 300 enabled Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons. However, due to differences between the parties, the Israeli military operation in Gaza was suspended last Friday, December 10. December, with armed groups firing volleys of rockets.

At least 89 IDF soldiers died during the ground operation in the Gaza Strip. Among them was the XNUMX-year-old sergeant Gal Meir Eisenkot, son of former Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, member – the latter – of Israel’s current emergency government. Meanwhile, at least 17,177 Palestinians have died and 46,000 have been injured since Israel’s military offensive began in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run exclave’s health ministry said. However, there have been at least 308 attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians and their property in the West Bank since the start of the war. According to the Palestinian Authority (PNA) Ministry of Health, these attacks displaced more than 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank, including 388 children.

Osama Hamdana senior official in the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas Speaking to journalists in Beirut, he stressed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have not achieved any political or military goals and “will never achieve them.” Hamdan also said that the “actual number” of Israeli soldiers killed and wounded by Hamas was “much higher” than the figures given by Israel. According to the official, the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement, destroyed 72 Israeli army vehicles in the Gaza Strip “in whole or in part” in the last 135 hours.

Addressing the families of Israeli hostages held in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas official said: “Your military’s ongoing war campaign against our people will not give you back your children. “They will not return if the aggression does not stop.” According to Hamdan drive About 100 trucks loaded with aid enter the Gaza Strip every day, “but the Strip needs 600 trucks a day.” “Aid is still not distributed evenly among Gaza residents,” the official added, and for this reason “fulfill The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the Palestinian Red Crescent are not carrying out their tasks adequately.”

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