On Monday, maintaining the psychological stress, Hamas launched a video clip that includes the faces of the three hostages and providing three choices: all three are killed, “some are killed, some are injured”, or all three are spared.
It ended with the message: “Tonight we’ll inform you of their destiny.”
Israeli troopers pictured within the southern Gaza metropolis of Khan Younis, the place floor operations have been more and more directed.Credit score: AP
Gaza preventing
Israeli forces continued bombarding targets throughout the Palestinian enclave on Monday and clashing with the militants in southern and central areas.
Twelve Palestinians had been killed and others wounded in an Israeli airstrike in a single day on a home in Gaza Metropolis within the north, well being officers mentioned, whereas plumes of smoke rose above the primary southern metropolis of Khan Younis shelled by Israeli tanks.
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The Hamas-affiliated Palestinian Press Company SAFA reported fierce preventing between Hamas militants and Israeli forces in Khan Younis, whereas Israeli tank barrages had been additionally reported close to the Al-Bureij and Al-Maghazi in central Gaza.
Palestinian well being officers in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis mentioned afterward Monday seven folks had been killed and others damage in an Israeli missile strike close by the medical facility.
The October 7 assault, wherein Israel says greater than 1200 folks had been killed, has turned a lot of Gaza right into a wasteland and killed, well being officers say, some 24,100 folks and wounded almost 61,000.
Well being officers mentioned 132 had been killed prior to now 24 hours, suggesting to Palestinians that there was little let-up within the depth of Israel’s offensive regardless of its announcement of a shift to a brand new, extra focused part.
Israel’s army mentioned it had withdrawn one other division of troops as a part of plans for extra focused operations towards Hams leaders within the south after an preliminary all-out offensive centred on the closely built-up northern finish of the Strip.
Virtually two million displaced individuals are sheltering in tents and different short-term lodging in southern Gaza amid the preventing, and are dealing with elevated dangers of hunger and illness as a consequence of power shortages of meals, gasoline and medicines.
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