Operation Iron Swords - Day 59 - 04 December 2023
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Gallant had previously stated, at the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle and the launch of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, that this time this war would last a month or 3 months, and “in the end there will be no Hamas,” and he said that Israel was fighting “human animals” in Gaza. He said that the only way to resume negotiations with the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) is for “Hamas to implement the original agreement and return the 15 women and two children it is still holding” hostage, without preconditions and nothing in return.
He added, "The only way with Hamas is to use force. In the end, they will give you something... Hamas has two options: to die in the tunnels or on the roof, or to surrender without conditions." Gallant recalled the goals of the operation in Gaza, which were to assassinate “the leader of Hamas in Gaza and the architect of October 7, Yahya Sinwar ,” “breaking the chain of command of Hamas,” and ensuring that Hamas “no longer acts as a military organization that can launch organized attacks against Israel.”
Deputy Head of the Hamas Political Bureau, Saleh Al-Arouri, said that “there will be no exchange of prisoners until the end of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip and a comprehensive and final ceasefire.” e stressed that "our Zionist prisoners will not be liberated until all our prisoners are liberated and after a ceasefire."
An article by Gideon Levy in "Haaretz" said that Israel's resumption of war is the biggest mistake it has committed since the attack of last October 7. The war has become heavier in its duration and in the amount of blood shed in it - as Moshe Dayan put it in another war - even though its goals are declining and its crimes are piling up, as the first two days of the renewed phase seemed horrific, like a return to the loss of humanity.
The Israeli explained that the world has once again returned to horrific scenes, where children die screaming in pain, and the injured, with the dust of collapsed buildings covering their bloody bodies, are transported to clinics that cannot provide assistance to them. Gaza is no longer able to bear it anymore, and there is no longer any point in requesting displacement from the north again. The situation is that the south of the Gaza Strip is being subjected to the same indiscriminate bombing, and the interactive escape route map that represents the glory of the Israeli army’s technology and ethics cannot save a single life, as The writer says.
It is clear that Israel - as the writer sees it - prefers to “crush” the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ), whatever the meaning of this term, rather than rescuing the prisoners. By resuming the war, Israel not only puts the lives of the hostages at risk, but also thwarts any attempts to release them, at a time when the prisoner exchange process was going better than expected.
According to some reports, Hamas was interested in moving to releasing male hostages, whose prices were higher, but Israel wanted to complete the release of women first, and therefore the failure of negotiations and the return to all-out war demonstrates the priorities of Israel, which - even before that - showed signs of preferring war over releasing hostages.
The moment of truth has come for Israel, and the choice has been made - as the writer says - although it is infuriating that Israel has a more important goal than securing the release of prisoners, because there is nothing more dangerous than violating the unwritten agreement between a civilian or soldier and his state, and leaving the prisoner to his fate.
Operational Update
The Israeli army's home front announced that 11,000 rockets had been fired from Gaza towards Israel since the beginning of the war on the Strip on October 7.
The Al-Qassam Brigades announced that they bombed Tel Aviv with a missile barrage, in response to the Israeli massacres against civilians, and reported that they bombed the settlements of Netivot and Sderot, as well as occupied Beersheba , with missile barrages. Al-Qassam stated that it targeted the Third Eye site on the border with Gaza and Kibbutz Nirim with a 114 mm short-range rocket system, and bombed the occupation crowds east of the Magin settlement with a missile salvo.
Palestinian resistance factions targeted Israeli vehicles in several areas in the Gaza Strip . They also announced that they had killed a number of occupation soldiers from zero distance north of the Strip, and bombarded Tel Aviv with missile salvos, while the Israeli army said that it had not completely defeated the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ) in the north.
The Al-Qassam Brigades , the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced in a statement that it had targeted 10 occupation vehicles in eastern Gaza, with Al-Yassin missiles, 5 troop carriers, and the other tanks. The Al-Qassam Brigades said, in another statement, that it targeted an Israeli tank with a stun device in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, and another tank that was converted by Israeli soldiers in the Al-Faluga area in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip with an Al-Yassin 105 shell , and killed and wounded a number of them. It added that it targeted an Israeli tank and an engineering vehicle penetrating east of Beit Lahia with Al-Yassin 105 shells.
The Palestinian resistance targeted Israeli army crowds in several areas in the Gaza Strip, and the Al-Qassam Brigades announced their clash with an occupation foot force, killing and wounding a number of them in the Al-Faluga area in the northern Gaza Strip. It explained that it targeted the soldiers with an individual bomb and eliminated the rest of them from a zero distance, and added that it killed Israeli soldiers from a zero distance as well in the Sheikh Radwan area.
The Al-Qassam Brigades bombed an Israeli special force holed up inside a building east of Beit Lahia with a TPG shell. The Al-Quds Brigades also said that they bombed Israeli military crowds on the front lines in the Juhr al-Dik area with a number of mortar shells. On the other hand, the Israeli army admitted that three soldiers were killed and a fourth was seriously injured in battles in the northern and central Gaza Strip.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Islamic Jihad , said that it targeted a number of occupation military vehicles with tandem shells, and clashed from zero distance with the occupation soldiers in the axis of the incursion into the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City. It stated that it blew up an Israeli military vehicle with a “Piercer” device, and targeted two other vehicles with tandom shells in the Al-Taqadum axis, east of Gaza City. The Jerusalem Brigades said that they bombed the settlements of Nirim, Nir Ishaq, and Nir Oz with missile attacks.
Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that missile interceptions occurred in the sky of the Netivot settlement in the western Negev following a missile salvo fired from Gaza, adding that the sounds of explosions shook Tel Aviv.
Israeli forces carry out daily storming campaigns into villages and towns throughout the occupied West Bank, accompanied by confrontations, arrests, and shooting and gas bombs at Palestinians. The arrest campaign was accompanied by widespread harassment, severe beatings, and threats against detainees and their families, in addition to widespread sabotage and destruction of citizens’ homes.
Three Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces’ bullets in the occupied West Bank , while the occupation forces arrested about 60 Palestinians during raids on cities and villages in the West Bank, raising the number of detainees there to more than 3,500 detainees since the Battle of Al- Aqsa Flood. A Palestinian was martyred and 18 others were injured when the Israeli occupation forces stormed the Qalandia camp between the cities of Ramallah and occupied Jerusalem .
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement that a young Palestinian man named Ali Ibrahim Alqam (32 years old) was shot in the heart by Israeli occupation soldiers in Qalandiya, which led to his martyrdom. It reported in its statement that 4 serious injuries were injured by occupation bullets from Qalandiya to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah.
Meanwhile, Reuters quoted the commander of the Israeli Armored Corps as saying that the army is close to completing its mission in the northern Gaza Strip, and that the objectives there have almost been achieved and the army has begun to move in other parts.
Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus told CNN that, as Israeli ground forces continue to advance towards the southern Gaza Strip, the army's campaign to destroy the Hamas movement's stronghold in the northern Gaza Strip continues, as he put it.
Conricus added that the Israeli forces did not completely defeat Hamas militarily in the north, but they made good progress. He added that the military operation is difficult because it takes place in intense combat terrain.
The Israeli army also said that it was acting "forcefully" against Hamas in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraee wrote on the “X” platform that the city’s Salah al-Din Street axis has turned into a battlefield, noting that the army allowed the “humanitarian” movement of civilians through the bypass axis located west of Khan Yunis, as he put it.
Yesterday, the IDF asked the residents of Khan Yunis to evacuate towards Rafah, coinciding with Rafah being exposed to Israeli bombing that targeted inhabited homes. COGST Coordination of government actions in the territories] announced:
"Residents of the #Gaza Strip , the IDF is acting forcefully against #Hamas and terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip, especially in the #Khan_Younis area. Here are several urgent instructions: The fighting and military advance of the IDF in the Khan Yunis area do not allow the movement of civilians through the Salah al-Din axis in the sections north and east of the city of Khan Yunis. In these clips, the Salah al-Din Axis constitutes a battlefield, so it is extremely dangerous to reach it! The IDF will allow humanitarian movement of civilians through the bypass axis located west of Khan Yunis. Transportation from the Rafah and Khan Yunis area towards Deir al-Balah and the Central camps will be available through the following axes: Al-Rashid “Al-Bahr” Street - Al-Shuhadaa Street in Deir Al-Balah. There will also be a local and temporary tactical suspension of military activities for humanitarian purposes in the Rafah camp in the Rafah district, effective until 14:00 noon, for the purpose of supply.... "Residents of the Gaza Strip, the IDF has resumed its vigorous action against Hamas and other terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip. We kindly inform you of the following in order to preserve your security and safety: To the residents of the relevant blocks in the neighborhoods of Al-Mahatta, Al-Katiba, Hamad, Al-Satar, Bani Suhaila and Ma’an (Blocks 36, 54-38, 221-219), in order to preserve your safety, we invite you to move to the known displaced shelters in the neighborhoods of Al-Fukhari, Al-Shaboura, Al-Zuhur, and Tal Al-Sultan. We remind you that we have published a “map of the areas (blocks)” that divides the territory of the Gaza Strip into regions and neighborhoods."
Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said that the occupation forces in the Gaza Strip faced a rise in cases of intestinal diseases and food poisoning among soldiers, and 2,000 Israeli soldiers received psychiatric help since the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood. The Israeli newspaper explained that the occupation army forces in Gaza faced an “extraordinary rise” in these disease cases among soldiers during recent weeks.
According to Yedioth Ahronoth, 18 soldiers were evacuated from Gaza to the brigade’s training base to receive medical treatment after they were infected with an outbreak of dysentery (Shigella bacteria) and symptoms of diarrhea and vomiting. Doctors attributed the spread of these bacteria among the occupation forces to a lack of hygiene and food donations from the public, as many restaurants and Israelis used to send food to the occupation soldiers in the Gaza Strip.
According to the newspaper, the army sent a team to clean the area where the soldiers were staying. A spokesman for the occupation army said, “This is a one-time incident in which about 18 soldiers contracted intestinal diseases. The fighters were evacuated from the Gaza Strip and received medical care accordingly.”
The newspaper revealed that one of the “striking and worrying” results is that the shigella bacteria cause dysentery, and in many cases cause severe diarrhea and high temperature, which is a very dangerous disease, and it has spread among occupation soldiers in Gaza, and infection occurs through direct contact between one person and another, or through food.
Dr. Tal Brosh, director of the Infectious Diseases Unit at Assuta General Hospital in Ashdod , explains that outbreaks of this bacteria have operational consequences. “If there are 10 soldiers in an infantry company who have a fever of 40 degrees and suffer from diarrhea every 20 minutes, they are unfit to fight and are at risk,” he said. "themselves at risk" The newspaper quotes one of the soldiers in Gaza as saying that the bulk of the food in his unit in which he serves comes from food donations, noting that “the soldiers’ food is inedible.”
In a related context, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said that 2,000 soldiers have received psychiatric help since Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, including 200 during the first three weeks of the ground operation in the Gaza Strip that began on the 27th of the same month. It added that between 75 and 80% of these recruits - who were classified as wounded in battle - were able to return to the ranks of their units in the field and continue their participation.
According to the authority, an injured person on the battlefield is defined as a soldier who was exposed to an event such as gunfire, confrontation, or injury, or who witnessed serious injuries and dangerous scenes of others, which led to a decline in his level of performance. The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation continued that damage at the functional level could be manifested in his reactions, such as isolation, silence, anxiety, tension, or the general difficult feeling that accompanies the soldier in such cases.
Bystanders
Axis of Resistance
Allied for Democracy
University professor Professor Jean-Pierre Filho wrote in his column in Le Monde newspaper abot the book “The Third Temple” by Yishai Sarid, to draw a picture of what is happening and what is being planned in terms of replacing the alleged temple with the existing mosques in Al-Aqsa Square, especially since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promoted Bezalel Smotrich to the Ministry of Finance, and Itamar Ben Gvir to National Security with authority over the future “National Guard.”
Filho reviewed the book, which is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with activists from the Messianic movement from the West Bank settlements, and whose author took the eschatological discourses of “end-times” activists literally seriously, 20 years after the assassination of Labor Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a fanatic from these movements.
After narrating the history of the Holy Temple and its destruction for the first time in 586 BC by the Babylonians, then the destruction of the Second Temple in the year 70, during Rome’s suppression of the Jewish uprising, the writer pointed out that the memory of these two events was linked to the Western Wall, or what is now called the “ Wailing Wall .”
If in 1967 Israel preserved the Mosque Square, or “Al-Haram Al-Sharif” in Arabic, or “Temple Mount” in English, from destruction, then - according to the writer - it destroyed the Moroccan Quarter adjacent to the Western Wall, and forcibly allocated it to Jewish worship, before allowing them to enter the city. The courtyards of the Holy Mosque and perform their prayers there with police protection.
The writer pointed out the establishment of movements linked to the Temple, such as: the Salvation Movement, the “Temple Mount Believers” group, and the Temple Institute, which is closely linked to American evangelicals, and was founded in 1992 in the Old City of Jerusalem. From time to time, it raises some problems with its attacks on the Noble Sanctuary , and continues its conspiracies to demolish it and replace the alleged temple in its place. The temple institute even brought 5 completely red cows from Texas, purifying their ashes after a ritual sacrifice, to the courtyard of the mosques in preparation for the construction of the third temple.
However, the tension in Jerusalem increased - as the writer says - with the entry of the two ministers into Netanyahu’s government, after they made more inflammatory statements and initiatives, as Itamar Ben Gvir visited the mosque square 3 times, in 2023, and was during two of these provocative visits, accompanied by the rabbi. The ultra-Orthodox Samson Elboim, who claims, in the name of the “Temple Mount Administration,” to have replaced the Islamic authorities.
Two months after the Al- Aqsa flood operation on October 7, and Israel's sudden shift to a war economy, thousands of companies, especially small ones, face many risks, which threatens them with closure if the war on the Gaza Strip escalates and extends to other fronts, according to Bloomberg. Small business owners are suffering from a radical change in the conditions of their activities, due to the call-up of 300,000 reserve soldiers, which is equivalent to 8% of the country’s workforce. With the prevention of Palestinian construction workers and the travel of thousands of workers due to the state of war, this led to a blow to many economic activities. Mass evacuations from war-affected areas in northern and southern Israel have added to the unrest.
The Eugene Association specialized in helping small projects, companies, non-profit organizations and individuals at a cheaper cost. Eugene typically lends about $70 million a year, but it received applications for $58.2 million in the month through November 21 alone. It expects demand for loans worth $364.8 million over the next six months, although this represents a “drop in the bucket.”
This is all the more worrying in a country where small and medium enterprises account for 62.3% of gross value added, which is higher than the average in the club of rich countries in the OECD. It is expected that about 57,000 Israeli companies will close their doors this year, compared to 42,000 companies in 2022, with many of them affected by increased inflation and months of political unrest due to the proposed judicial amendment, according to a survey conducted by Coface BDI for the Marker economic newspaper. Israeli. She added that the economy usually adds 4,500 companies annually, but the total will decrease this year by 20,000.
The government, already strained by the war, which is costing an estimated $270 million a day, responded by allocating NIS 18 billion ($5 billion) for business continuity grants in October and November, for which 80,000 companies have applied. . It also offered to be a guarantor for loans in some cases, and on Sunday Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich extended the compensation until this month of December. Critics said the government failed to respond professionally to business needs during the war. He added, "We are in the largest war that Israel has witnessed in the past 50 years. The government must come up with highly creative and unconventional tools to move the market, even if those tools were unacceptable before the war."
Butcher's Bill / Oasis of Martyrs
Palestinian armed group Hamas launched thousands of missiles at Israel and deployed its militants to infiltrate Jewish settlements near the country’s border with Gaza on 07 October 2023. The 1,200 Israelis killed on the first day would be the equivalent of 36,000 Americans killed in an attack, as a proportion to Israel’s population of 9.3 million people (compared to 332 million in the USA). Israeli President Isaac Herzog stated: “Not since the Holocaust have so many Jews been killed in one day". PM Netanyahu stated "On October 7th, Hamas murdered 1,400 Israelis. Maybe more. This is in a country of fewer than 10 million people. This would be equivalent to over 50,000 Americans murdered in a single day. That’s twenty 9/11s. That is why October 7th is another day that will live in infamy."
It is the second largest loss inflicted on the Israeli forces after the 1973 war, as the Palestinian resistance killed more than 1,200, wounded more than 5,132 others, and captured more than 250, most of them military personnel, some of whom were high-ranking officers in the army.
The HAMAS Ministry of Health in the besieged sector announced that the number of victims of the Israeli operation its beginning had risen to about 16,000 martyrs [other reports mentioned 15,523 Palestinian martyrs ]. Gaza's health ministry had a day earlier registered the deaths of over 18,000 Palestinians, a major jump from the "about 15,000" reported a few days earlier. The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Observatory reports that it had "counted up to this moment about 17,500 dead Palestinians". The count included about 6,150 children killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza since October 7, the Gaza Press Office said. The ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. The Hamas-run government said more than 4,000 women were among the dead.
The number of injured had risen to 41,316 with varying injuries, up from 36,000 three days earlier [which was up by 3,000 from the previous report]. The Palestinian Government Media Office in Gaza said the number of missing people had risen to more than 7,500 [ double the 3,750 previously reported], including 1,800 children still under the rubble, including 4,700 children and women. The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced that the number of wounded as 36,000 [previously announced as about 32,000 wounded], 75 percent of them children and women.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health explained that the death toll in the West Bank since the beginning of this year has risen to 465, including 257 martyrs since last October 7.
Israel revised down the death toll from the October Hamas attacks in southern Israel from 1,400 to 1,200. IDF had said previously it was holding 1,500 bodies of terrorists, a total that now would increas to about 1,700.
The number of Israeli soldiers that the IDF admitted were killed in ground battles with the Palestinian resistance reached 81, while the death toll for the Israel forces had risen to 401 soldiers since the beginning of Operation al-Aqsa Flood. At least 7,771 Israelis were injured.
The Hebrew newspaper Haaretz revealed that the number of soldiers who were injured since the start of the war reached about a thousand soldiers, noting that 202 soldiers were seriously injured. The army rarely referred to casualties when talking about the deaths of soldiers during battles. According to the same newspaper, this policy differs from what was prevalent in previous wars and military campaigns, during which the army also published the number of its wounded, in addition to publishing other details. The IDF previously announced that more than 260 soldiers had been injured since the start of the ground operation in the Gaza Strip, including 100 in serious condition.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry released its first official casualty numbers in fighting, saying 77 people were killed and 251 wounded since the start of the war on Gaza.
Israeli media revealed the number of Israeli detainees released from the Gaza Strip and remaining in the custody of the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ), amid reports that Tel Aviv announced the death of some missing persons in Gaza in absentia. While Israeli Channel 12 reported that 113 detainees were returned from the Gaza Strip and that 137 were still being held by Hamas, Israel announced the death of some missing persons detained in Gaza in absentia, in a move that “aims to help the families of those to turn the page” despite the continuation of indirect negotiations with Hamas to restore detainees, according to Reuters.
The agency reported that a medical committee consisting of three experts was examining the video clips of the attack carried out by Al- Qassam Brigades fighters on October 7, looking for any signs of potentially fatal injuries among the detainees, and comparing that with the testimonies of those who were released during the temporary truce that lasted a week.
An Israeli Ministry of Health official said that the video clips may be sufficient to declare death, “even if no doctor officially announces this based on his examination of the hostage’s body,” noting that the death announcement is made by everyone’s agreement. She added in statements to the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation that “announcing death is not an easy matter at all, and certainly not in the situation we are living in.” She explained that the committee “is responding to the desire of the families of detainees in Gaza” to know as much information as possible about them.
Hostages
Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy told reporters that Hamas still held 137 captives. The resistance released 10 Israeli detainees, 4 Thais and 2 Russian women, who were released outside the agreement. Over the course of 6 days, Israel has received 102 detainees, women and children, including 78 Israelis, in exchange for the release of 234 Palestinian prisoners, women and children.
Eylon Levy, the Israeli government spokesperson, told reporters 01 December 2023:
- Hamas still holds 137 hostages from the October attacks, in addition to four others who went missing before the war
- The hostages include two children aged four and 10 months, who, Hamas now claims, are dead
- 117 male hostages are still kept in Gaza, including the two children, as well as 20 females
- 126 hostages are Israelis, and 11 others are foreign nationals
- Foreign nationals are eight Thais, one Nepalese, one Tanzanian and one French Mexican citizen
- Ten of the remaining hostages are 75 and older. There are seven missing people since the October 7 attack
- Hamas has released 110 hostages so far – 86 Israelis and 24 foreign nationals.
The Al-Qassam Brigades announced the death of an Israeli woman and her two children who were detained by them as a result of a previous Israeli bombing of Gaza. The Israeli army confirmed the deaths of five hostages held in Gaza, saying their families had been informed, and the body of one of them returned to Israel. “In recent days, the IDF and Israel police notified the families of the hostages Eliyahu Margalit, Maya Goren, Ronen Engel and Arye Zalmanovitz about their deaths,” army spokesman Daniel Hagari said. He also said troops had brought back the body of a fifth person that he identified as Ofir Tsarfati. Hagari said Gaza militants were still holding “136 hostages, among them 17 women and children.”
Before the release of the sixth batch of Israelis detained in Gaza, Israeli government spokesman Elon Levy said that 161 Israelis are still detained in the Strip [al-Jazeera reported "more than 100 prisoners" remain with the resistance]. Levy added that Israel has prepared a list of 50 Palestinian detainees to be released if Hamas continues to release detainees. At least 76, and possibly more than 80, hostages had been released by Hamas over six days of a cease-fire. During the pause, Hamas fighters released 60 Israeli women and children. In return, Israel released 180 security detainees from its prisons, all of them women and minors under the age of 19. Hamas also separately released 19 foreign hostages, most of them Thai farm workers, under separate agreements parallel to the truce agreement.
Thirty children held by Gazan terrorists have been released as part of a four-day ceasefire deal with Hamas that began Friday, but 10 still remain in the Strip. The terror group has said it planned to release 20 more hostages as part of a two-day extension to the deal. U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the Biden administration believes eight or nine more Americans are still being held but the U.S. does not have "solid information on each and every one of them." Perhaps 100 are Israeli civilians. Some of the rest are soldiers, seized when Hamas raided military bases in Israel. They may end up being held the longest. The Israeli military had not specified how many soldiers were captured, nor their ranks.
By one account
- 236 confirmed abducted civilians and IDF soldiers.
- 18 of the abductees are elderly people aged 75 and older.
- 121 of the abductees have foreign citizenship (including dual citizenship).
Conflicting estimates were provided regarding the number of Thai nationals still in captivity. The Wall Street Journal reported 25 November 2023 that Hamas is interested in releasing 23 Thai citizens during the four days of the ceasefire, mediated by Iran. On the other hand, the Thai Foreign Ministry claimed 20 more citizens who are held captive by Hamas, and that four of the ten who were released were not included in the number initially estimated.
According to some estimates, Hamas was initially holding nearly 210 of the 240 hostages, while Palestinian Islamic Jihad was holding the remaining 30. About 40 Israelis remained missing. More than 40 hostages taken from Israel into Gaza on October 7th are not currently in the custody of Hamas, the group responsible for the attack, according to a CNN report based on a diplomatic source briefed on the negotiations, CNN's prior reports had indicated that an estimated 40 to 50 hostages were held by Palestinian Islamic Jihad or other unidentified groups or individuals.
Abu Ubaida, the spokesperson for the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, said on Hamas’ telegram account that 23 bodies of the 60 missing Israel hostages were trapped under the rubble. “It seems that we will never be able to reach them due to the continued brutal aggression of the occupation against Gaza,” he said.
The Prisoners' Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners' Club announced that the occupation forces arrested about 60 Palestinians, including former prisoners, since dawn on Monday, bringing the total number of detainees in the West Bank to 3,540 since last October 7. Israel said that, since the beginning of the war, about 2,100 wanted persons have been arrested throughout the IOS Division and the Bekaa and Emekim Brigade, about 1,100 of them are affiliated with Hamas.
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