Hamas’ Gaza-based chief Yahya Sinwar triumphantly declared that “we have the Israelis right where we want them” as President Joe Biden’s administration is pressuring Israel to agree on its ceasefire deal.
Hamas’ Gaza-based chief boasted of the terrorist group’s ability to wage war against Israel for months. “As long as fighters are still standing and we have not lost the war,” Sinwar claimed in a letter to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who is currently hiding in Qatar. “We have the capabilities to continue fighting for months,” the terror chief declared.
Hamas chief’s claims come to light as the Biden administration is rallying support for its ceasefire deal at the United Nations, a body with a long history of harboring anti-Israel positions.
The 15-member UN Security Council on Monday overwhelmingly passed a Biden-backed ceasefire resolution that seeks an end to the Israeli military operation in Gaza. The permanent ceasefire proposed by President Biden will likely allow Hamas to stay in power.
The i24NEWS reported Sinwar’s remarks:
Hamas chief in Gaza Yahya Sinwar in correspondence with his compatriots and mediators has expressed an opinion that the civilian losses in the Strip during the Israel-Hamas war are a “necessary sacrifice” for the Palestinian cause, reported The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), familiar to the letters.“We have the Israelis right where we want them,” the article cited Sinwar’s recent message to Hamas officials seeking to broker an agreement with Qatari and Egyptian officials.In a letter to the political leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, after three of his adult sons were killed in an Israeli airstrike, Sinwar wrote that their deaths and those of other Palestinians “will inject life into the veins of this nation, and bring it to its glory and honor.”
After Saturday’s daring rescue of four Israeli hostages, the military continued operations against Hamas terrorists in Rafah and the rest of Gaza. “IDF troops are continuing intelligence-based, targeted operations in the area of Rafah,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a press release Tuesday. “Over the past day, the troops eliminated armed terrorist cells in close-quarters encounters and located intelligence materials in several targeted raids in the area.”
The Israeli Air Force (IAF), supported by the ground troops, carried out precession strikes on Hamas terror targets. “Over the past day, IAF fighter jets and additional aircraft struck and dismantled approximately 35 terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including military structures, weapons storage facilities, launch sites, observation posts, terrorist cells, and additional military infrastructure,” the IDF disclosed.
Four IDF soldiers were reported killed when a booby-trapped building collapsed during a reconnaissance operation in the Hamas terror stronghold of Rafah.
One of the soldiers killed in the explosion, 19-year-old Sgt. Yair Levin was the grandson of noted Israeli social activist and former Likud party lawmaker Moshe Feiglin.
The Times of Israel reported:
Four soldiers were killed and another seven were wounded in the Gaza Strip when a booby-trapped building collapsed on them, Israel said Tuesday as troops continued to battle Hamas in the south and center of the Palestinian enclave.The slain soldiers were named as Maj. Tal Pshebilski Shaulov, 24, from Gedera; Staff Sgt. Eitan Karlsbrun, 20, from Modiin; Sgt. Almog Shalom, 19, from Hamadia; and Sgt. Yair Levin, 19, from Givat Harel. (…)All four soldiers served in the Givati Brigade’s reconnaissance unit. Shalom and Levin were still in their training period, and Shaulov was their company commander. Levin is the grandson of former Likud MK Moshe Feiglin.
The Israeli Air Force conducted a night-time raid on a significant Hezbollah terror complex located deep inside Lebanon.
“Fighter jets struck what Israel’s military described as a significant Hezbollah compound deep in Lebanon overnight Monday-Tuesday after the terror group downed an Israeli drone,” The Times of Israel reported. “Lebanese media reported that strikes took place in the Hermel District, near Baalbek in northeastern Lebanon, and sources in the terror group told AFP that three Hezbollah members were killed.”
“Overnight, IAF fighter jets struck a military complex of the Hezbollah 4400 unit, the logistical reinforcement unit of the Hezbollah terrorist organization,” the Israeli military revealed. “The unit is used to smuggle weapons to and from Lebanon.”
The airstrike comes amid relentless Hezbollah rocket and drone fire from its positions in Lebanon into northern Israel.
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