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2025-05-13 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Israel resumes airstrikes on Gaza following captive’s release
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[GEO.TV] Israeli airstrikes resumed in Gaza shortly after the handover of a US-Israeli captive, with warplanes and drones reported overhead, Al Jazeera reported.
The renewed attacks have deepened uncertainty among Palestinians, many of whom are already facing severe humanitarian conditions. Families are struggling to access food, with reports of children going to bed hungry as supplies dwindle.
Despite the escalation, Hamas called the captive's release a ''positive step'' toward advancing ceasefire talks.
The group said it remains committed to negotiating an end to the conflict, ensuring the flow of humanitarian aid, and beginning reconstruction efforts in Gaza.
| Before Edan Alexander was released: |
IDF said to limit Gaza operations ahead of Edan Alexander release, but no truce
[IsraelTimes] Hamas says it was informed Israel would halt reconnaissance, drone, and warplane flights, as well as combat operations, to create a safe corridor for release
Israeli forces have not been instructed to halt military activities in the Gaza Strip ahead of the expected release of US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander on Monday, but will make “adjustments” to allow safe passage of the captive out of the Strip, Channel 12 reported.
“Adjustments have been made for the release, but the army continues with normal operations,” a security source tells the network amid conflicting reports of a truce ahead of the release that was negotiated without Israel’s involvement.
The Kan public broadcaster also said that there was no ceasefire in Gaza but that military activity across the Strip had been limited to avoid harming the release process of Alexander.
However, a short while ago, there was an exchange of fire between IDF troops and terror operatives in the Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya, the military said. An IDF reservist was lightly injured in the clash and taken to a hospital for treatment, the IDF said.
The Hamas-linked Shehab outlet reported artillery shelling near Gaza City, and small arms fire north of Rafah in the southern Strip. Shelling was also reported by other outlets.
AFP reported earlier Monday that a Hamas source said the terror group was informed by mediators that Israel would pause military operations in Gaza for the handover of Alexander.
“Hamas was informed that at exactly 9:30 a.m., Israel began halting its reconnaissance, drone, and warplane flights, as well as combat operations, to create a safe corridor for the transfer and handover of Edan,” the source said.
In a statement, Hamas announced on Sunday its decision to release Alexander after recent talks with US officials and “intensified efforts to achieve a ceasefire, open border crossings, and allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said the US informed it of Hamas’s intent to release Alexander “without compensation or conditions” and that the step is expected to lead to negotiations on a truce.
Netanyahu’s government was angered by US direct talks with Hamas earlier this year that led to a Hamas offer to release Alexander and the bodies of four other hostages if Israel recommitted to a stalled ceasefire deal. Days later, however, Israel resumed the war.
US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff told AP that Hamas’s goal in releasing Alexander was to restart talks on a ceasefire, the release of additional hostages and a surge of humanitarian aid into Gaza before Israel carries out a threatened total takeover of the territory.
Indirect talks between Hamas and the US began five days ago, an Egyptian official and a senior Hamas official told AP, with both describing the release of Alexander as a goodwill gesture.
| Courtesy of Grom in comments below, Israel National News adds: |
The IDF early Tuesday morning precisely struck significant Hamas terrorists who were operating from within a command and control center located in the “Nasser” hospital in Khan Yunis. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said that the compound was used by the terrorists to plan and execute terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF troops.
The successor of the head of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip and head of Hamas' finances and institutions, Ismail Barhoum, who was eliminated in a precise strike this past March, operated from within the Nasser hospital, the IDF said.
“Senior Hamas officials continue to use the hospital for terrorist activity, through cynical and brutal use of the civilian population in the hospital and its surroundings,” the IDF statement said.
Palestinian Arab media reported that Gazan "journalist" Hassan Aslih was eliminated in the Khan Yunis strike. Aslih, who operated on October 7 under the guise of a media worker, broadcast live images of a burning tank near the border fence. 
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