The war in Gaza will “continue for many more months”. This was said by Israeli chief of staff Herzi Halevi, who visited the Strip today and spoke with commanders and soldiers. According to Halevi, the army said, “There is no shortcut to dispersing the terrorist organization” and “is close to completing the disbandment of Hamas battalions.”
According to other information from Gaza, the filming HaaretzThe Israeli army killed Hamas legislative council member Hamis al-Najar in a raid on Khan Younis in the south of the Strip in the past few hours. According to the same information, his wife, two children and many grandchildren also lost their lives in the attack.
All communications are suspended
Israeli air strikes in Gaza continue. STelephone and internet communications were cut off for the fourth time. Palestinian telecommunications company PalTel said, “We regret to announce that the telecommunications and internet services that were restored in the Gaza Strip due to the Israeli attack have been completely cut off.” said.
More than 100 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Christmas Day, according to Palestinian health officials. reports this Al Arabiya It describes one of the bloodiest raids carried out by Israel since the war against Hamas began on October 7.
Ministry of Health spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra said that most of those killed in Maghazi were women and children. Eight more people were killed in dozens of attacks by Israeli planes and tanks on homes and streets in nearby Al Bureij and Al Nuseyrat, health officials said. Israel denies targeting civilians and accuses Hamas of using civilians as human shields by building tunnels and military infrastructure in civilian-populated areas.
An employee of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) described what he saw at the nearby Al-Aqsadi Gaza hospital as “absolute carnage”. Gemma Connell told the BBC that many seriously injured people could not be treated because the hospital was “completely overwhelmed”.
More than 20 thousand dead since the beginning of the last war
The war began on October 7, when Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on communities in Israel, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking approximately 240 hostages. Israel says 132 of them are still detained.
Some 20,674 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombardment since then, Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Monday. L.Most of the victims are children and women.
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