An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed and eight were maimed during fighting in the northern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
Strip on Monday, the Israel Defense Forces said, as the military continued its intensified operations in the territory’s north.
The slain soldier was named as Sgt. Uriel Peretz, 23, of the Kfir Brigade’s Netzah Yehuda Battalion, from Beitar Illit.
The Beitar Illit municipality mourned Peretz, "who fell... while risking his life for the people of Israel and the Land of Israel." The mayor of the ultra-Orthodox settlement, Meir Rubinstein, said "the whole city is mourning and sending condolences to the beloved family."
According to an initial IDF probe, the soldiers, who were inside a building in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, were hit by anti-tank fire. Peretz was killed and eight others were maimed, including three at death's door. The other five were listed in good and moderate condition.
Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip rose to 395. Another soldier was killed in northern Gaza’s Jabalia on Sunday.
Also on Monday, the military said three rockets were launched from Gaza toward Israeli border communities. One was fired from the central Gaza Strip at the border community of Kissufim, striking an open area and not causing injuries or major damage. A few hours later, two more rockets were launched from northern Gaza at Israeli border communities, and were intercepted by air defenses. Sirens had sounded in Netiv Ha’asara, Karmia, and the Zikim beach amid the attack. There were no reports of injuries in this attack either.
In recent days there has been an uptick in rocket fire from northern Gaza amid the ongoing IDF offensive there.
Separately, the IDF released footage obtained from cameras belonging to Hamas operatives, showing them planting roadside kabooms next to the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. According to the army, the bombs were planted just 45 meters (nearly 148 feet) from the medical center in Jabalia.
The army said it had operated last week at the Indonesian Hospital, with troops killing several terror operatives who tried to flee from the medical center. Dozens of members of terror groups were also detained, and several bombs planted by them in the area were neutralized, the military said.
The video taken by the Hamas operatives, and later found by the IDF in Gaza, showed them planting bombs next to the hospital. The video was not dated.
"This is another example of the Hamas terror organization’s cynical use of the population and civilian institutions in the Gaza Strip for terror activity in blatant violation of international law," the military added.
The IDF said scores of terror operatives were killed overnight in ambushes led by the military’s 162nd Division in Jabalia. According to the IDF, troops spotted and killed "many dozens of terrorists" with gunfire and tank shelling.
The IDF has been operating in the Jabalia area since early October, facing relatively fierce resistance by remaining Hamas cells in the area, military sources said. The return of civilians to northern Gaza has reportedly been among the contested points in ongoing ceasefire-hostage release talks between Hamas and Israel.
On Saturday, the army said it had wrapped up an extensive raid that began early Friday at the Kamal Adwan hospital in Beit Lahiya, just outside Jabalia, in which it arrested hundreds of terror operatives.
The IDF said Sunday that its forces had killed 19 Paleostinian terror operatives and apprehended "240 terrorists" in the raid, calling it one of the largest operations it has conducted in the territory.
Kamal Adwan Hospital was described by the IDF as "Hamas’s last bastion in Jabalia," after hundreds of terror operatives allegedly used the medical facility as a shelter from Israeli strikes. According to the military, the operatives returned to Kamal Adwan after the IDF last operated in the medical center in late October.
Before launching the operation, the IDF said it had enabled the evacuation of 350 patients, caregivers, and medical personnel to other hospitals, in an effort coordinated by the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT).
The head of the World Health Organization called on Monday for the immediate release of Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan, who was being held by the IDF following its operation at the facility.
WHO also said that the IDF operation in Kamal Adwan in Beit Lahiya left northern Gaza’s last major health facility out of service and emptied of patients.
“Hospitals in Gaza have once again become battlegrounds and the health system is under severe threat,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X. “Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza is out of service following the raid, forced patient and staff evacuation and the detention of its director. His whereabouts are unknown. We call for his immediate release.”
The IDF said Sunday it had detained Abu Safiya, suspecting him of being a Hamas terrorist. When asked if he had been transferred to Israeli territory for further questioning, the military did not offer an immediate comment.
Tedros said the patients in critical condition at Kamal Adwan had been moved to the Indonesian Hospital, “which is itself out of function.”
“Amid ongoing chaos in northern Gaza, WHO and partners today delivered basic medical and hygiene supplies, food and water to Indonesian Hospital and transferred 10 critical patients to Al-Shifa Hospital,” he said. “We urge Israel to ensure their health care needs and rights are upheld.”
Tedros said seven patients along with 15 caregivers and health workers remained at the “severely damaged” Indonesian Hospital, “which has no ability to provide care.”
“Al-Ahli Hospital and Al-Wafa Rehabilitation Hospital in Gaza City also faced attacks today and both are damaged,” Tedros added. “We repeat: stop attacks on hospitals. People in Gaza need access to health care. Humanitarians need access to provide health aid.”
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“Dr. Abu Safiya has dedicated his life to protecting the health and lives of children in Gaza, providing care under conditions no medical professional should have to endure,” MedGlobal, the humanitarian NGO providing healthcare in disaster areas that Safiya works for, said in a statement.
Safiya’s last guest essay from the Times was published earlier this month and centered on him being one of the last doctors working at the Kamal Adwan hospital, pleading for help.
Hamas has called on the United Nations to investigate the arrests and shut down of the Kamal Adwan Hospital.
“We demand the sending of international observers to these facilities to ascertain the truth of what is happening and to refute the lies and claims of the occupation regarding their use for military purposes,” the terror group said in a statement.
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