The Army kills 2 alleged Hams militiamen who were trying to launch rockets against Israel
The Israeli Army claimed this Thursday to have killed, in the last day, two alleged Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip who were trying to launch rockets into Israeli territory, as reported in a military statement.
“Combat planes from our Army attacked two terrorists who were trying to launch rockets into Israeli territory,” he detailed in a note in which he added that he also managed to kill “weapons storage facility” from where these two alleged militiamen operated.
Likewise, in the statement he reported that another “sniper cell” of the Islamist organization was “eliminated“in the Nuseirat area, in the center of the Strip, during an airstrike”necessary“Our fighter jets attacked more than 30 Hamas terrorist targets, including facilities, weapons storage, cells and additional infrastructure,” the note added.
On the other hand, the spokesman for the Israeli Army, Daniel Hagari, insisted this Wednesday that its military operations will continue. “chasing Hamas” throughout the Strip until they manage to free the hostages. “133 hostages remain in the hands of Hamas for more than 200 days in inhumane conditions,” he said during a hearing.
Hagari spoke these words following Hamas’s publication on Wednesday of a video showing one of the Israeli hostages in Gaza, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government for not doing enough to free them. . “Benjamin Netanyahu and his government should be ashamed”said the young man, who lost a hand during the Hamas attacks on October 7.
Plans to invade Rafah remain in place
The spokesman for the Israeli Government, David Mencer, assured this Wednesday that the plans to launch a ground offensive in the city of Rafah, bordering Egypt and where more than 1.4 million people live in poverty, “they keep moving forward.” “The four battalions that remain in Rafah cannot be protected by Israel. They will be attacked,” Mencer said.
The way in which this assault develops worries the international community, which in recent months has asked Israel not to carry it out so as not to provoke “another bleeding“among the population. A Palestinian source confirmed to EFE this Wednesday that a camp with half a thousand tents has already been erected in Khan Yunis, in the south of Gaza, and a second is under construction.
