He Israeli army reported this Thursday in a statement that he killed Hussien Fiad, an alleged commander of the Beit Hanoun battalion of Hamasin a tunnel Jabalia, in the north of the Gaza Strip.
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“The elimination of Fiad is part of our Army’s operational activity underground to locate tunnels and eliminate terrorists operating within them,” they added in the statement.
The Hebrew troops resumed their attacks in the north of the enclave on May 12 under the premise that Hamas had regrouped again in that area.
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This Thursday, the Gaza Health Ministry, controlled by Hamas, reported the death of 91 people following Israeli attacks in the last 24 hours, raising the total number of deaths since the start of the war in the devastated Palestinian enclave to 35,800.
It is estimated that some 10,000 bodies of missing people are still buried under the rubble of the Strip.
Israeli troops today advanced deeper into Rafah, in the southern tip of Gaza, and killed several suspected Hamas militiamen in hand-to-hand combat, while the Army maintains airstrikes on almost the entire enclave.
Yoav Gallant and Benny Gantz, members alongside Netanyahu of Israel’s war cabinet, have criticized Netanyahu for not having a plan for Gaza when the conflict ends.
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Israel gives green light to resumption of negotiations to free hostages in Gaza
The decision was made by the war cabinet, which met on Wednesday night.
Shortly before, the Israeli media broadcast a video, authorized by the families of the hostages, of five female soldiers at the time of being kidnapped on October 7, during the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Israel, which sparked the war.
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In response to the video, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that he will continue to fight Hamas to “ensure that what was seen tonight does not happen again.”
The Egyptian channel Al Qahera News – close to the intelligence services of its country – stated on Thursday, citing a “high-ranking source”, that “the Israeli position is still not conducive to reaching a ceasefire agreement and the release of hostages”.
Indirect talks for a truce, mediated by Qatar, Egypt and the United States, ran aground in early May due to disagreements between both sides.
26 dead in Gaza City
The fighters also kidnapped 252 people. Israel claims that 124 remain in Gaza, of whom 37 have reportedly died.
In response to the attack, Israel launched an offensive against the Gaza Strip, governed since 2007 by Hamas, an organization considered terrorist by Israel, the European Union and the United States.
At least 35,800 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed in this offensive, according to the Hamas government’s Health Ministry.
Shelling and artillery fire continued throughout the Palestinian territory, according to AFP teams, doctors and witnesses.
The Gaza civil defense said 26 people, including 15 children, were killed in Gaza City, in the north of the Palestinian territory, in two Israeli bombings before dawn.
The Israeli army has not yet commented on that report.
The streets of Jabaliya, also in the north, were the scene of fighting between Israeli forces and militiamen from the armed wing of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement.
“We only heard the noise of explosions and gunshots in the Jabaliya refugee camp,” a displaced Palestinian, Mahmoud al Sharif, 31, told AFP.
A senior Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip, Diaa al Din al Sharafa, was killed in an Israeli strike Thursday morning in the center of the Strip, the Palestinian territory’s Interior Ministry announced.
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