Tel Aviv [Israel], January 5 (ANI/TPS): Israeli forces in the northern Gaza area of Beit Hanoun demolished a neighbourhood overlooking Israeli territory used by Hamas commanders as a hideout and command center, the Israel Defense Forces said on Saturday.
High rises in the “Officers’ Neighborhood” of Beit Hanoun overlooked the nearby Israeli city of Sderot. The neighbourhood contained rocket launching sites, anti-tank firing positions, booby traps, shafts and numerous explosives, the IDF said.
Israel has been fighting Hamas‘s efforts to regroup in northern Gaza.
Also on Saturday, Israeli forces targeted Hamas terrorists exploiting Gaza‘s Salah ad-Din Highway. The 45 km road runs the length of the Strip from the Rafah border crossing with Egypt to the Erez Crossing in northern Gaza and is a primary route for humanitarian aid deliveries.
According to the IDF, the attack on Hamas took place far from the movement of trucks without affecting the continuity of aid.
Separately, Israeli aircraft targeted a vehicle in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza carrying four armed Hamas terrorists.
The IDF also said on Saturday that soldiers in the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit located and dismantled an underground tunnel route containing a Hamas weapons manufacturing site in central Gaza.
The complex contained several lathes, as well as processing and cutting machines used, among other things, for the production of weapons. Military equipment was also seized.
At least 1,200 people were killed, and 252 Israelis and foreigners were taken hostage in Hamas‘s attacks on Israeli communities near the Gaza border on October 7. Of the 97 remaining hostages, more than 30 have been declared dead. Hamas has also been holding captive two Israeli civilians since 2014 and 2015, and the bodies of two soldiers killed in 2014. (ANI/TPS)
59 killed in four Israeli attacks in Gaza
Tel Aviv [Israel], January 4 (ANI/WAM): Israeli ‘occupation’ forces killed at least 59 Palestinians and injured 273 others in four attacks targeting families in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours.
According to medical sources in Gaza, a number of victims are still trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings or scattered on roads, as medics and rescuers cannot reach them due to incessant Israeli strikes.
The toll of the 456-day Israeli aggression on Gaza has risen to 45,717 deaths and 10,886 wounded since 7th October 2023. (ANI/WAM)
