Family of Hamas leader killed in Gaza. Israel deploys 300,000 soldiers

The brother of the spokesman for the Ezzedin al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, Mohammed al-Deif, lost his life this morning in an Israeli air strike. With him, three other family members of the Hamas exponent lost their lives, who since last Saturday took responsibility for the group’s actions and issued threats and ultimatums to Israel. A Palestinian source told al-Arabiya that Abdel Fattah Al-Deif (60 years old), Medhat Abdel Fattah Al-Deif (40 years old), one of his nephews, Baraa Medhat (two and a half years old), and his wife of one of his other sons, were killed as a result of Israeli bombing. A private source from Muhammad al-Deif’s family revealed today that the Israeli bombing of the home of the well-known family of the Hamas exponent took place in the city of Khan Yunis. The Israeli bombing targeted the three-story house in Qizan Al-Najjar. The daughter of the woman killed in the operation is currently hospitalized in intensive care at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis. The search for other family members continues. The Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post confirmed that the Israeli army bombed the house of the father of the commander of the Qassam Brigades. However, the Palestinian News and Information Agency reported that at least 4 Palestinians were killed in the early hours of today following the Israeli attack that targeted the Al-Deif family home in Qaizan Al-Najjar.

Meanwhile, Israel is preparing an all-out ground offensive in Gaza and is deploying 300,000 reservists in the south of the country after the Israeli Defense Forces struck hundreds of “targets” in Gaza overnight. Eighty locations were hit in the neighborhood of Beit Hanon, a city in the extreme northeast of the Strip, more than 450 in the neighborhood of Al-Furqan, another 70 in the neighborhood of al-Daraj, in locations that, according to the Israeli army, were used by the Hamas to direct attacks against Israel. Israel’s military objective is to destroy Hamas’ military capabilities, said Israel Defense Forces spokesman Lt. Col. Conricus: the mission is “to ensure that Hamas, at the end of this war, does not have any military capabilities.” . Israeli civilians.” Conricus himself added that around 300,000 reservists were deployed to the south of the country, towards Gaza. According to the UN, more than 260,000 people were forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip, as heavy Israeli air, land and sea bombardment continues to hit the Palestinian enclave. “More than 263,934 people in Gaza are believed to have fled their homes,” UN aid agency OCHA said overnight, warning that “this number is expected to grow even further”.

The number of Israeli deaths is rising, rising to 1,200: they are “mostly civilians”, said the army spokesman. More than 2,700 people were injured. The increase in the death toll “is not due to the fact that there was fighting”, but rather because “now that time has passed, we are discovering bodies of dead Israelis in the various communities where Hamas infiltrated and where it carried out its massacres”. ”, explained Conricus. The most recent Palestinian toll provided by Gaza health authorities speaks of 900 casualties in the enclave as of Saturday. Among the dead were 260 children and 230 women. Israeli Defense Minister Yoavv Gallant has hinted that a ground offensive in Gaza is imminent. «Hamas wanted change and they will achieve it. What was in Gaza will no longer be there. We started the offensive from the sky, then we will also arrive from the ground,” he added, speaking to the soldiers. Meanwhile, the United States is discussing with Israel and Egypt the idea of ​​a humanitarian corridor to displace civilians from Gaza, said U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan. “We are focused on this issue, consultations are ongoing,” Sullivan told reporters at the White House. “But the details are being discussed among the operating agencies and I don’t want to share much of that publicly at this time,” Sullivan said.

Source: IL Tempo

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