How Goes The War
"Hamas's end is near. For your future.""Anyone who can present information that could help us arrest the individuals who brought destruction and ruins to the Gaza Strip will be rewarded."Israel Defense Forces"[Jerusalem cannot comment on the] various intelligence means [used to keep tabs on Sinwar and other terrorists].""We certainly will continue making every effort to bring them to justice and to get our hands on all of the monsters responsible for the October 7 massacre."Israeli PMO spokesman Eylon Levy
During
an operation in the northern Gaza Strip, in the area of Kamal Adwan
Hospital, some 70 terrorists with Hamas surrendered to Israeli forces,
laying down their weapons in the process. Soldiers had located a
building used by Hamas operatives and a 'military' officer and after a
fight the terrorists were killed. In Gaza City Shejaiya neighbourhood
and Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip battles continue to rage, the IDF
reporting "many terrorists" killed.
Soldiers searched a school complex in Shejaiya "that served as a central focus of the fighting of the Hamas Shejaiya Battalion"
and proceeded to destroy the compound's infrastructure, as well as
engaging with the Hamas operatives there as well. IDF soldiers
discovered weapons and grenades in the Khan Yunis area where they
destroyed two tunnel shafts, a rocket launch pit, and a weapons
warehouse.
Terrorist
infrastructure was demolished by the IDF near the Jabalia refugee camp,
and weapons were located and destroyed. A Hamas sniper identified by
ground forces was eliminated by a helicopter gunship. Hamas and
Palestinian Islamic Jihad continue to fire rockets into Israel, leading
to warning sirens sounding in border communities.
The
death toll for Israeli soldiers killed since the ground operations in
the Gaza Strip began on October 27 rose to 116 with the death of Maj.
Elisha Levinshtern, 38, killed in action. Since the conflict began on
October 7 -- that fateful day when terrorists and ordinary Palestinian
civilians flooded across the broken border from Gaza into southern
Israel to attack border towns and villages, slaughtering at will, raping
and mutilating, taking hostages back into Gaza -- a total of 445
Israeli troops have perished.
The
Israel Defense Forces dropped flyers in the coastal enclave, urging
Palestinians to help remove Hamas from the enclave's leadership,
promising up to $400,000 in reward money for information leading to the
apprehension of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar; $300,000 for intelligence on
his brother, commander Muhammad Sinwar; $200,000 for information on
Rafa'a Salameh, commander of the Khan Yunis Battalion; and $100,000 for
information leading to Mohammed Deif, commander of Hamas's al-Qassam
Brigades 'military' wing.
The
reward-offering flyers promised strict confidentiality, included an
Israeli telephone number to call, and the username of an account on the
Telegram messaging app. IDF troops last week had surrounded the
residence in Gaza of Sinwar, believed to live in Khan Yunis in the
southern Strip. "His house is not a fortress and he can escape but it's only a matter of time before we get to him", Prime Minister Netanyahu promised.
Thought
to be one of the masterminds of the October 7 savagery that devastated
southern Israel kibbutzim and a music festival with some three thousand
young Israeli attendees where the terrorists ran down fleeing
festival-goers, mass rape took place, and hundreds were slaughtered, it
is felt that Sinwar who eluded capture last week, may attempt an escape
into Egypt through entry points under mosques.
The
Hamas Religious Endowment Ministry ordered the opening of mosques to
accept displaced persons, a slight diversion from their usual use as
storage areas for caches of military weaponry. Those corridors, it is
feared, could provide Sinwar with an escape route, along with other
senior Hamas leadership members.
"Yahya Sinwar is the face of evil",
said IDF International Spokesperson Lt.Col. Richard Hecht, who informed
journalists that Sinwar and his entire command team were in Israel's
sights.
Yahya Sinwar Gaza Strip chief of the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement, waves to Palestinians during a rally to mark the annual al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day), in Gaza, April 14, 2023. (credit: REUTERS/IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA) |
Labels: Barbaric Atrocities, Israel Defense Forces Ground Operations, Search for Hamas Leaders, Terrorist Invasion of Israel
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