Heavy Israeli bombardment has been rocking Gaza City, as the UN warns that Israel’s planned occupation of the area could forcibly displace more than one million Palestinians.
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It's official, Abu Ubaida is dead!
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Infamous Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida said targeted and likely killed in IDF strike on Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Army says it targeted a senior Hamas member in Gaza City bombing, as reports identify him as longtime masked face of terror group’s military wing; Israeli officials said optimistic
The notorious spokesperson for Hamas’s military wing in the Gaza Strip was said to have been the target of an Israeli airstrike on Saturday, the results of which were not immediately clear but which left Israeli officials feeling cautiously optimistic.
The Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet said in a statement on Saturday evening that they had carried out an airstrike on a senior Hamas operative in the Gaza City area, in the northern Gaza Strip.
While the statement did not provide the identity of the targeted terror operative, multiple Hebrew media outlets reported that it was the longtime Hamas spokesman, Hudayfa Samir Abdallah al-Kahlout, who is more widely known by his nom de guerre Abu Obeida.
Abu Obeida is always masked in his statements to the media, and he is viewed as something of a symbol in the Gaza Strip and elsewhere in the Arab world. During the current war, the IDF published an estimation of what his face looks like.
While his fate after the strike was not immediately known, unnamed Israeli security sources cited by Hebrew media expressed cautious optimism about the outcome of the strike.
“There is optimism, we have cautiously assessed that the direction is positive,” one security source told Channel 12, while another told the Kan public broadaster that the outcome was “looking good.”
Reports in Gaza indicated that some 11 people, including children, were killed in the strike on the apartment building that the senior Hamas operative was believed to have been sheltering in.
The IDF insisted that precautions were taken to minimize civilian harm, including precision munitions and aerial surveillance, along with additional intelligence.
Hamas swiftly shot down reports of Abu Obeida’s death and published a statement warning that the rumors were nothing more than an attempt at “psychological warfare,” Jordanian news outlet Roya News reported.
According to the news outlet, Hamas warned Palestinians against spreading rumors of his death, as it would assist Israel in its ‘deliberate’ psychological campaign and serve to undermine public trust and unity.
Abu Obeida has been the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades since 2004. He rose to prominence in 2006 as he announced the kidnapping of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
He has since been the face of the more high-profile statements and psychological warfare by the terror group.
Abu Obeida’s last statement was issued on Friday evening, warning Israel that its planned offensive to conquer Gaza City would subject hostages in the area to the “same risks” as the terror group’s fighters.
“We will take care of the prisoners the best we can, and they will be with our fighters in the combat and confrontation zones, subjected to the same risks and the same living conditions,” he said.
His last video statement was aired some two weeks ago, in which he attempted to pressure Israel to agree to a hostage-ceasefire deal accepted by the terror group.
Palestinian source said to confirm that IDF strike killed Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida
[IsraelTimes] A Palestinian source tells the Saudi channel Al-Arabiya that the notorious spokesman of Hamas’s military wing, Abu Obeida, was killed in an airstrike last night in an apartment in Gaza City.
The IDF and Shin Bet said in a statement that they had carried out an airstrike on a senior Hamas operative in the Gaza City area, in the northern Gaza Strip. While the statement did not provide the identity of the targeted terror operative, multiple Hebrew media outlets reported that it was the longtime Hamas spokesman, Hudayfa Samir Abdallah al-Kahlout, who is more widely known by his nom de guerre Abu Obeida.
The Palestinian source told Al-Arabiya that everyone in the apartment was killed, including Abu Obeida.
The source says that senior Hamas officials and his family members confirmed his death after examining the body.
There has been no official confirmation from the terror group, which sometimes waits months before confirming the deaths of senior figures.
Palestinians say 4 Gazans killed waiting for aid, 10 die of starvation
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Israeli gunfire killed four people trying to get aid in central Gaza, according to health officials at Al-Awda Hospital, where the bodies were taken.Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry says 15 people were killed and at least 206 others wounded seeking aid over the past 24 hours.
The Health Ministry also says 10 people died as a result of starvation and malnutrition over the last 24 hours, including three children. It said at least 332 Palestinians have now died from malnutrition-related causes during the war, including 124 children.
The numbers cannot be immediately confirmed, and Israel denies that a famine situation exists in the Strip, pointing to hundreds of tons of aid that have gone in in recent weeks.
Israeli officials say only 10,000 out of 1 million have evacuated from northern Gaza
Israeli security officials tell Channel 12 that the evacuation of Gaza City ahead of the planned IDF offensive is going much slower than anticipated.
The official says that Israel estimates that only some 10,000 people have evacuated to the south in the three weeks since Israel announced it would empty the city of its civilian population ahead of a planned move by the IDF to capture Gaza City.
The official says that there are some 1 million people still in the area.
At least 44 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks today
[GEO.TV] At least 44 Paleostinians, including aid seekers, have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gazoo...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
since dawn, Al Jazeera reported.
At least 63,371 people have been killed and 159,835 maimed since the start of Israel's war on Gaza in October 2023, the Paleostinian Health Ministry said.
Since Israel broke the ceasefire on March 18, at least 11,240 people have been killed and 47,794 maimed, it added.
According to the report, at least 15 aid seekers were killed and 206 were maimed in the last 24 hours. A total of 2,218 people were killed and more than 16,434 were maimed while seeking aid.
At least 10 people were killed due to famine and malnutrition over the last 24 hours.
Seven soldiers wounded, one moderately, when Gaza roadside bomb hits armored vehicle
[IsraelTimes] Seven Israel Defense Forces soldiers are wounded when the armored personnel carrier they were traveling in went over an explosive device in north Gaza’s Zeitoun neighborhood, military officials say.
One soldier was in moderate condition, and six others were lightly wounded in the incident that occurred overnight.
Five of the six lightly wounded troops have been treated and released from the hospital.
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