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08-01-2024
GAZA CITY/ WEST BANK: Two more journalists martyred after their vehicle is targeted in an Israeli air strike, including the son of a senior journalist Wael Dahdouh.
At least six Palestinians killed in an Israeli drone attack on Jenin in the occupied West Bank while dozens more innocent Palestinians including women and children in latest airstrikes, sources told media.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and EU policy chief Josep Borrell visit the Middle East amid efforts to ease tension following last week’s assassination of a Hamas leader in Beirut.
At least 22,835 people have been killed including 9,600 children in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. About 1,139 people were killed in Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.
Israel’s military says it has “dismantled” Hamas in the besieged territory’s northern region, indicating major combat operations there could be winding down.
Israeli forces have now completely destroyed Hamas’s “military framework” in northern Gaza after killing about 8,000 fighters, an army spokesman says.
Scattered fighting is to be expected along with rockets sporadically being launched towards Israel, but Hamas no longer operates in an organized manner there, Rear-Admiral Daniel Hagari said on Saturday.
The spokesperson said Israeli forces have now completely dismantled Hamas’s “military framework” in northern Gaza after killing about 8,000 fighters, and will now end major combat operations.
Hamas fighters “without a framework and without commanders” are still present, he continued, and scattered fighting is to be expected, along with rockets sporadically being launched towards Israel but Hamas no longer operates in an organized manner in the area, he asserted.
The military did not address troop deployments in northern Gaza going forward, but the spokesperson said it will “continue to deepen the achievement” in the area.
However, the onslaught in the rest of the enclave, including the south, to which Israel previously pushed Palestinians labelling it a safe area, is set to continue.
“We are now focused on dismantling Hamas in the centre of and south of the strip,” the spokesperson said.
The Israeli military’s assault using drones, missiles and ground forces was launched following Hamas’s attack on October 7, which killed about 1,140 people in Israel and saw some 240 taken captive.
The latest figures on casualties in Gaza show that close to 23,000 people have been killed and more than 58,000 wounded. Many more are missing, feared under the rubble of bombed buildings. Most of the 2.3 million population has been displaced, and are struggling for food and shelter.
Amid these figures and the ongoing humanitarian crisis, pressure has been growing on Israel for weeks to end its indiscriminate warfare.
In particular, the United States, Israel’s main backer, is reported to be pressing Tel Aviv to end its tactic of widespread bombardment, and the associated civilian casualties. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
