Past a year after the start of the warIsrael will “continue to fight” until the hostages return home. And so does Hamas, which promises to continue with “a long and painful battle of attrition with the enemy”. After the commemorations for the massacre of October 7, 2023, the Jewish State and the Palestinian terrorists do not retreat an inch. AND while new attacks with rockets, drones and missiles arrive from Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen against Tel Aviv, the Israeli ground operation in the Land of the Cedars continues, but also the one in the Palestinian enclave.
Netanyahu: “Forward as long as hostages are in Gaza”
October 7 “will represent for generations the price of our rebirth, it will express for generations the greatness of our determination and the strength of our spirit”. Thus the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a message recorded yesterday, on the occasion of the ceremony to commemorate the attack in Israel a year ago.
Meeting wounded Israeli soldiers and grieving families, Netanyahu said, “we always hear the same message: the (military) campaign must not be stopped prematurely.” And, he said, “as long as the enemy threatens our existence and the peace of our country, we will continue to fight.” “As long as our hostages are in Gaza – he insisted – we will continue to fight”.
“Until our citizens return to their homes safely, we will continue to fight – continued Netanyahu – Together we will continue to fight and together, with the grace of God, we will win”. The prime minister repeated the “objectives of the war” starting with the desire to “overthrow Hamas”, which took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007.
“Bringing home all our hostages, both alive and dead, is a sacred mission, which we will not abandon until we have completed it”, he further stated, reiterating that he wanted to “thwart any future threat from Gaza” and to wanting to “bring residents of the south and north back to their homes safely”.
Hamas: “Continuous battle”
“Our choice is to continue a long and painful battle of attrition with the enemy, and the battles have demonstrated the success of this option”, assured Abu Obeida, the spokesman for the al Qassam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing in the Strip. from Gaza, also in a video message broadcast by the broadcaster Al Jazeera. “If the targeted killings were a victory, the resistance against the occupation would already be over,” he argued.
“It has been a year since the most professional and successful operation of the modern era” which took place after “the enemy was engaged in settlement, Judaization and aggression against Palestinian prisoners”, Obeida’s words.
Hezbollah: “We fight against aggression”
Hezbollah, meanwhile, also vows to “continue to fight against Israeli aggression”. Hezbollah and the Lebanese paid a “heavy price” for the group’s decision to open a “support front” in Gaza, but “we are confident… in the ability of our resistance to oppose Israeli aggression,” the group says, in a statement reported by the Times of Israel in which he called Israel “a cancerous gland that must be eliminated.”
Rockets from Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen. Tel Aviv’s response
Sirens sounded three times yesterday in central Israel, following rocket fire from Gaza in the morning, a ballistic missile from Yemen in the afternoon and rockets from Lebanon in the evening.
According to what the IDF announced yesterday in a statement, Hamas had “planned to launch a large barrage of rockets at Israel this morning”, but his plans were foiled “after detecting preparations by the terrorist organization Hamas to open fire on Israel”.
Israeli fighter jets hit several rocket launchers and tunnels across Gaza shortly before 6.30am, the time Hamas had planned to launch the rockets. The Islamist group managed to launch only four rockets in the Sufa area, three of which were intercepted while the fourth fell in an open area. Warning sirens went off in Tel Aviv following rocket fire from the Strip, Israeli media reported, noting that Hamas claimed responsibility for the launch of two M90 rockets against the Jewish state’s capital on the first anniversary of October 7. Two people were injured, reported Magen David Adom – the Israeli national first aid service – specifying that they were two women in their 30s who were taken to Asaf Harofeh hospital.
The rocket fire against Tel Aviv is part of the “ongoing battle of attrition” and is a response to the “massacres of civilians” by the Israeli army and the “deliberate displacement of our people”, the Al-British Brigades later said. Qassam, the military wing of Hamas, in their Telegram claim of the attack with a volley of Maqadmeh M-90 rockets launched from southern Gaza against Tel Aviv.
In the meantime, 140 rockets were launched yesterday Hezbollah from Lebanon in the direction of Israel, the Israeli forces announced as reported by the BBC. According to the IDF, five long-range rockets were launched from Lebanon towards central Israel in last night’s attack alone. Some were intercepted by air defenses and the rest hit open terrain, according to the army. There were no reports of injuries or serious damage. The IDF adds that there are no changes to the guidelines for civilians following the attack. Hezbollah then claimed responsibility for rocket fire on Israel: “We carried out a rocket launch operation on the Glilot base of Military Intelligence Unit 8200, which is located on the outskirts of Tel Aviv,” the Iranian-backed group says.
Precisely on the Lebanon front, the Israel Defense Forces announced that the 91st ‘Galilee’ regional division began ground operations in the south of the country on Sunday evening, joining two other divisions already operating there against Hezbollah. “More than 120” Hezbollah targets in the south of the country were bombed within an hour, the IDF confirmed meanwhile, giving news of a “large-scale air operation” in the south of the Country of the Cedars.
“One hundred Air Force jets – they say – attacked more than 120 terrorist targets of units of the Hezbollah terrorist organization for an hour”, including “targets of the Radwan force” and “the Hezbollah intelligence headquarters in south of Lebanon”.
Six Israeli raids hit the southern outskirts of Beirut, Lebanese media reported, having previously reported a series of operations in the area known to be Hezbollah’s historic stronghold in the Lebanese capital.
Yesterday, a surface-to-surface missile launched by the Yemen in the direction of Israel, the Israeli forces (IDF) announced after the anti-aircraft alarm sirens sounded again in the central part of Israel. The missile was shot down with the Arrow defense system intercepting the projectile while it is still outside the atmosphere. The missile launched by Yemen’s Houthis was aimed at Tel Aviv, the IDF specifies. The Houthi rebels then claimed responsibility for launching missiles and drones against the Jewish state.
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