Doctors interviewed by the Reuters news agency reported 16 deaths after a series of Israeli air raids in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas Health Ministry accuses Israeli army of “bombard and destroy” a hospital in the area.
Israel claims to have carried out a strike in Damascus, the capital of Syria, on “targets belonging to Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Syria.” Two members of the Islamist movement were killed according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
We take stock of recent developments in the conflict.
16 dead in Gaza after bombings
A series of Israeli aerial bombardments have killed at least 16 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including in the northern town of Beit Lahia, doctors told Reuters on Monday. Several people were also injured in the attacks, doctors added.
The Hamas Health Ministry accused the Israeli army of “bombing and destroying” the Kamal Adwan hospital, the only one still operating in the north of the Palestinian territory, reporting “many injuries among medical staff and patients”. The Israeli army said it was verifying this information, according to AFP. She had previously indicated “operate against infrastructure and terrorist agents in the north and center” of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army deployed early last month in Jabalia, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, three localities in the north of the Gaza Strip, with the aim of preventing, according to it, Hamas from reorganizing. According to Hamas communications outlets, some 1,800 people have been killed and 4,000 others injured since these Israeli army raids began on October 5.
Israel says it struck Hezbollah intelligence HQ in Syria
The Israeli army claimed Monday to have carried out a strike in Damascus on Hezbollah intelligence targets for Syria, where the pro-Iranian Lebanese movement is strongly established, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reporting two deaths. in this attack.
The Israeli army, which rarely comments on its attacks in Syria, said in a statement that it had “conducted an air operation and struck […] targets belonging to Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Syria.” She added that the Syrian intelligence branch of the Lebanese movement had “an independent information collection, coordination and review network under the direct command of the head of Hezbollah’s intelligence services.”
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) for its part reported an Israeli strike on Monday south of Damascus on “a house on a farm in the Sayyeda Zeinab area used by members of Lebanese Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.” Two Hezbollah fighters were killed and five others injured, according to the Observatory.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry condemned the attack, saying it had targeted “civilian areas” south of Damascus and caused significant material damage. He made no mention of victims. Syrian state media reported that the strike took place around 5:18 p.m. and came from “from the direction of the occupied Golan” by Israel.
Washington deplores Hamas's rejection of a ceasefire
The head of American diplomacy Antony Blinken deplored Monday that Hamas has once again rejected a temporary truce in the Gaza Strip. In a phone call with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, Antony Blinken “ noted that Hamas had once again refused to release even a limited number of hostages in order to secure a ceasefire and relief for the people of Gaza,” according to a statement from the State Department.
The American Secretary of State “stressed the importance of ending the war in Gaza, securing the release of all hostages and increasing and maintaining the delivery of humanitarian aid,” according to the text.
A Hamas official said Friday that the Palestinian Islamist movement had refused to study a proposal for a short truce in the Gaza Strip from the mediating countries – the United States, Egypt and Qatar – because it did not include a cease-fire. -permanent fire.
An association of relatives of hostages demands an investigation after a leak of documents
The Families Forum, the main association of relatives of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, demanded Monday that all light be shed on a matter of leaked documents which splashes the Israeli Prime Minister, and could have harmed an agreement on the release of the hostages.
“The (hostage) families demand an investigation into all those involved in suspected sabotage and undermining state security. Such action in general and particularly during war endangers the hostages, compromises their chances of return and abandons them with the risk of being killed by Hamas terrorists. affirmed the Forum in a press release. This Forum brings together the majority of the families of the 97 hostages still captive in Gaza, 34 of whom were declared dead by the army.
On Sunday, an Israeli court announced that a former spokesperson for the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had been arrested for releasing confidential military documents to the press without authorization. Four people, including members of the Israeli security apparatus and Eliezer Feldstein, a former collaborator of Mr. Netanyahu, are currently in detention, said the Rishon LeZion court (center).
An investigation was opened by the Shin Bet, the domestic intelligence services, and the army after the publication in September of articles in the foreign press based on confidential military documents. One detailed an alleged plan by Yahya Sinouar, the former political leader of Hamas, to flee the Gaza Strip with the hostages to Egypt through the “Philadelphia Corridor,” a buffer zone along the border. The other was based on notes presented as coming from the Hamas leadership on its leader's strategy to thwart negotiations on the release of the hostages.
This information, partly false, would have according to the court “undermined the ability of security agencies to achieve the goal of freeing the hostages,” according to the court, which issued a notice of censorship on a large part of the investigation.
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