As Israel’s ground forces reach the heart of the terrorist-infested Gaza City after more than two weeks of fighting, the Israeli military is hunting for Hamas’ chief Yahya Sinwar.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is operating in “heart of Gaza City,”the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported Saturday. “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel will find Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza.”
With Hamas terrorists firing missiles and mortars from underground tunnels, the Israeli soldiers are fighting their way in house-to-house combat in search of Hamas chief Sinwar and other wanted terrorists responsible for the October 7 massacres.
“The IDF’s 7th Armored Brigade raided an office belonging to Muhammad Sinwar, the brother of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, and confiscated terrorist equipment and Hamas pamphlets, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said Friday,” the Jerusalem Post reported.
“The IDF said it conducted a series of raids on Hamas facilities located in the heart of a civilian district in Gaza, and killed two Hamas Nukhba Force commanders who took part in the October 7 assault,” the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
An Israeli airstrike took out a senior Hamas commander who previously took 1,000 civilians hostage inside a hospital and prevented them from leaving the combat zone in northern Gaza, the military reported Saturday morning.
The IDF disclosed the details of the operation in a press release:
Based on precise IDF and ISA intelligence, and with the direction of IDF ground troops, IDF aircraft struck Ahmed Siam, a company commander of the Naser Radwan Company of the Hamas terrorist organization. Two days ago, the IDF spokesperson exposed that Siam held hostage approximately 1000. Gazan residents at the Rantisi Hospital and prevented them from evacuating southwards for their safety.Ahmed Siam was killed while hiding in the “al Buraq” school, where additional terrorists under this command were also hiding and were killed. Ahmed Siam demonstrates once again that Hamas uses the civilians of the Gaza Strip as human shields for terror purposes.
In a bizarre twist of fate, a misfired Palestinian rocket on Friday slammed into Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, Hamas’ headquarters and weapons storage site. Several wanted terrorists, including Hamas’s top brass, are believed to be hiding beneath the hospital which is build over a vast underground terrorist compound.
“Below ground lies a clandestine bunker network that serves as a sanctuary for top Hamas officials,” the Israeli news website Ynet reported Thursday. “It also features entry points to a labyrinth of terror tunnels, dubbed the Gaza Metro, which spans for miles below the Palestinian enclave.”
The IDF on Friday confirmed that the rocket that hit the hospital was a failed Hamas missile from inside Gaza. The Jerusalem Post reported:
Avichay Adraee, the IDF spokesman in Arabic, said on Friday that the rocket that hit Al Shifa Hospital in the Gaza Strip was caused by “a failed launch by the terrorist organizations that tried to fire at Israel,” according to a post on his X account. (…)In another tweet, he wrote “according to the information available to the IDF, the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip are responsible for launching the failed missile that hit the hospital.”
The Israeli military struck terrorist targets in Syria and Lebanon as Iran’s foreign minister threatened to widen the conflict.
The Times of Israel reported the Iranian threat:
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has reportedly told his Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, that the expansion of the Israel-Hamas war is “inevitable.”“Due to the expansion of the intensity of the war against Gaza’s civilian residents, expansion of the scope of the war has become inevitable,” Iran’s Press TV quoted Amir-Abdollahian as saying in a phone call Thursday.
The IDF once again hit terrorist targets in Syria, a base of operation for Hezbollah and other Iran-sponsored terrorist groups. “Israeli forces struck targets in Syria overnight in response to a UAV aerial attack on the southern city of Eilat on Thursday,” the i24NEWS TV channel reported Saturday. “In rare acknowledgment of their operation, the IDF said they hit targets in Syria as a direct response to the drone attack on southern Israel.”
With its ground offensive in full swing in Gaza, Israel is also taking measures to counter a direct military threat from Iran and its proxy terrorist forces fanned across in the Middle East. “The IDF is preparing for the possibility of an attack from Iran and Iraq if the fighting in the Gaza Strip continues,” the Haaretz newspaper reported citing IDF sources.
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