As President Joe Biden’s administration is pressuring Israel for a “pause” in its ongoing ground offensive in Gaza, Hamas is using humanitarian concessions to target Israeli soldiers.
On Saturday, Hamas fired mortars and anti-tank missiles at Israeli troops helping civilians to evacuate the battle zone. The Israeli news website Arutz Sheva reported:
Hamas exploited the humanitarian window between 1 pm and 4 pm that the IDF provided to residents of Gaza to allow them to move southwards: During the humanitarian window, the terrorists fired mortars and anti-tank missiles at IDF troops who arrived and operated to open the route.”This incident further proves that Hamas exploits the Gazan population and prevents them from acting in the interest of their own safety,” the IDF said in a statement.
Despite Hamas ambush, the IDF on Sunday will restore the corridor allowing Gaza residents to leave the northern part of the terrorist-infested territory. “The Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee announced that Israel will reopen an evacuation corridor for the Gazan civilians on Sunday. The military is said to allow southward movement via the Salah-al-Din Street between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported.
As Israeli tanks and infantry venture deep into the terrorist-controlled area in northern Gaza, destroying terror infrasture and evacuating civilians, they face sneak attacks from Hamas terrorists dug in for urban warfare. Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported “28 Israeli soldiers and officers killed in Gaza ground offensive.”
According to reports in Hebrew media, Israeli troops operating in one locations in northern Gaza found up to 80 percent of home either booby-trapped or connected to error tunnels, highlighting the extent of Hamas’s penetration of Gaza society.
The IDF targeted Hamas’s leadership, terror tunnels and weapons cache as part of the ground offensive which began last Friday. “Since the beginning of ground operations in the Gaza Strip, the IDF has struck over 2,500 terror targets,” the Israeli military revealed Sunday.
“IDF troops are continuing to eliminate terrorists in close quarter combat and direct aircraft to strike Hamas terrorist infrastructure, weapons depots, observation posts, and command and control centers in the Gaza Strip,” the IDF disclosed. “Overnight, IDF troops directed aircraft to strike a Hamas military compound containing command and control centers, observation posts, and additional terrorist infrastructure.”
On Saturday night, a Hamas killing squad tried to infiltrate into southern Israel. The terrorists were eliminated by the IDF as they approached the border fence. The Israeli news website Arutz Sheva reported Sunday:
Overnight, two terrorists attempted to infiltrate into Israel near Kibbutz Kissufim in the northwestern Negev, The infiltrators were spotted and eliminated by security forces before they could breach the Gaza border fence.Prior to the infiltration attempt, terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired an anti-tank missile at IDF forces in the same area. There were no casualties among the security forces, which returned fire.
IDF on Sunday afternoon releases new intelligence on Hamas’s use of Gaza hospitals for terrorist operation.
The new evidence shows Hamas terrorists used a hospital to launch mortars at IDF ground troops. Speaking at a live-streamed press briefing, IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel “Hagari showed photo evidence of Hamas launchpads adjacent to hospitals across Gaza, with the knowledge the IDF could not strike the launchpads due to collateral damage that would be done to the hospital,” the Jerusalem Post reported.
The Times of Israel reported:
In a briefing to international media outlets, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari reveals new intelligence information and evidence showing Hamas’s use of medical facilities in the Gaza Strip for terror purposes.Hagari presents a video showing an underground entrance from Sheikh Hamad Hospital, which he says connects to Hamas tunnel networks.Another video shows Hamas gunmen opening fire at Israeli forces from the hospital.“If it weren’t enough that we exposed a tunnel under the hospital, the terrorists also shot at our soldiers from within the hospital,” Hagari says.
Lebanon-based Hezbollah is stepping up missile strikes on Israel after Friday’s threats by its chief Hassan Nasrallah. Hezbollah renewed rocket barrage over northern Israel on Sunday morning, the Times of Israel reported:
The Israel Defense Forces says incoming rocket sirens that sounded in the northern community of Mattat a short while ago were caused by an Iron Dome interceptor launch.The IDF says the Iron Dome missile was fired at a suspicious target that entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon. It is unclear what the target was, and whether it was actually intercepted.
The latest Hezbollah attack highlights intensified terrorist activities by Iran-sponsored terrorist groups against Israel. Iran-backed Houthi terrorist militia also continued firing missiles at Israel from its bases in Yemen. Saturday might, Saudi Arabia intercepted a missile fired by the Islamic terrorist group.
Earlier this week, Houthi launched several drones and missiles towards Israel — all of them missing the targets. IDF “fighter jets and its new Arrow missile defense system shot down two salvos of incoming fire hours apart as it approached the country’s key Red Sea shipping port of Eilat,” the Associated Press reported Tuesday.
The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday morning:
Saudi air defenses intercepted a missile fired by the Iran-backed Houthi militia from Yemen on Saturday night, according to initial reports on Saudi social media.Footage reportedly from the village of Alqan in the Tabuk region of northwestern Saudi Arabia showed an explosion in the sky in the distance. No official source has confirmed the report as of yet.
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