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29-10-2023
TEL AVIV: Israeli fighter jets struck 150 “underground targets” in northern Gaza during an intense night of raids, the army said Saturday, three weeks after the deadliest attack in the country’s history.
A military statement said the sites hit included “terror tunnels, underground combat spaces and additional underground infrastructure. Furthermore, several Hamas terrorists were killed.”
Correspondents in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel said shelling and air strikes continued Saturday, although they were less intense than during the night.
In a separate statement, the Israeli military said one raid had killed Hamas air attacks Chief Asem Abu Rakaba, who it said played a key role in the October 7 attacks that set off the current war.
Israel says 1,400 people, mainly civilians, were killed in the cross-border attack. The health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip says more than 7,300 people have been killed in Israel’s raids since, also mostly civilians.
According to the Israeli military, Abu Rakaba oversaw Hamas drones, paragliders, aerial detection and aerial defense.
“He directed the terrorists who infiltrated Israel on paragliders and was responsible for the drone attacks on IDF (Israel Defense Forces) posts,” said a statement.
Israel says it ground troops are fighting inside Gaza as it subjects the besieged territory to the heaviest bombardment since the war began. Hamas says its fighters have confronted Israeli troops in various locations.
International media and aid agencies say they lost contact with staff in Gaza amid a near-total communications blackout.
More than 1 million Palestinian children and their parents are living through “pure horror” in the besieged enclave, says humanitarian group Save the Children.
UN General Assembly overwhelmingly approves non-binding resolution calling for a truce.
At least 7,326 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 7; More than 1,400 people were killed in the Hamas attack on Israel.
Israeli settler gunfire has killed a Palestinian man identified as Bilal Mohammad Saleh, 40, in the town of al-Sawiyeh, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to medical sources.
The Ministry of Health said Saleh was shot in the chest and critically wounded, Palestinian WAFA news agency reported. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
