Dozens of men sit on the ground on a street controlled by soldiers between war-damaged buildings. Three in a row, almost all with heads bowed, in their underwear. As the journey continues, some of them get into a military vehicle, always under the supervision of the soldiers. In another shot, she is seen kneeling, blindfolded and bare-chested, in what appears to be an abandoned quarry. The Israeli media – which distributed the images, starting with Haaretz – portrayed them as “Hamas fighters” surrendering en masse to the army in northern Gaza. Other sources provide a different version. According to the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, a Geneva-based NGO cited by Al Jazeera, among others, civilians were “arbitrarily” detained by Israel at two United Nations-affiliated schools in Beit Lahia: the Khalifa Bin Zayed and the New Aleppo. In the pictures, again according to this NGO, one would recognize, among others, the journalist Diaa Kahlout, who works for The New Arab, a Qatari newspaper.
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ANSA Agency The Diary of the Day – December 7th According to the BBC, there have been “suicides among survivors of the Nova Festival massacre.” Blinken: “Important steps by Israel to protect the civilian population”
The words of the military spokesman arrived in the evening. The army and the Shin Bet “arrested and interrogated” hundreds of suspected terrorists in northern Gaza: many of them surrendered and turned themselves in on the last day, Daniel Hagari said. “The intelligence we receive from this,” he added, “allows us to continue the fight and overthrow Hamas. We check who has ties to Hamas and who doesn’t, we detain and interrogate everyone.” What is certain is that the IDF is increasing its influence on the ground, both in the north – to gain ultimate control of the Jabalya fortress – and in the south, in Khan Yunis, another bastion of the Islamic faction, where Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed too Home was Def, the political and military leader of Hamas. The severity of the ongoing fighting is causing soldiers' losses to rise: according to media estimates, 89 people have been killed since the ground operation began. Today alone, five died: among them Gal Meir Eisenkot, 25 years old, son of Gadi Eisenkot, former army chief of staff and current minister in the National Emergency Government. While the Hamas Ministry of Health announced that the number of casualties in the Gaza Strip was over 17,000, without distinguishing between civilians and militiamen.
Video Gaza: Dozens of Hamas fighters have surrendered to the Israeli army
In Khan Yunis, the army hit dozens of targets and killed two Islamic faction activists who emerged from a tunnel and opened fire on the soldiers. In Rafah, just a stone's throw from the border with Egypt, the positions from which twelve rockets were fired at Beer Sheva yesterday were attacked. Hagari denounced and attached various videos that they were fired “from a location near the tents of civilians evacuated in the south of the Gaza Strip and United Nations facilities” and from “humanitarian areas.”
Video Israel: Reconstruction of the Nova festival in memory of the 364 victims in Tel Aviv
Meanwhile, the hunt for Hamas military leaders continues. The IDF announced that in recent days, military intelligence killed Abdel Aziz Rantisi, who “had been involved in planning the October 7 attack.” Ahmed Aiush, another member of the same unit, was eliminated along with him. But the army also showed five receipts found in Gaza for $25,000 for the purchase of jewelry by Moaz Haniyeh, son of Ismail, a Hamas political leader who lives in Qatar. “Just one,” says the IDF, “is the equivalent of two years' salary for a Gaza citizen.” As pressure increases in the Palestinian enclave, it moves closer to Lebanon, where an Israeli civilian was killed by an anti-tank missile fired by Hezbollah was killed while the Parity of God admitted the deaths of three of its own citizens. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who was invited by President Biden to talk about Gaza – warned them again that if they decided to go to war against Israel, they would turn Beirut and southern Lebanon into Gaza City and Khan Yunis.
Video Netanyahu: “If Hezbollah wages war against us, Beirut will be like Gaza City”
Meanwhile, on the eve of the Hanukkah holiday, i.eIranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian argued that “the Islamic resistance has so far reacted violently to Israel’s acts of aggression.”. And in line with this trend, the next few days – he threatened – will be truly terrible for the Zionist regime.” Finally, there is no news for the 138 hostages held in Gaza: many candles were lit in their memory on July 17, 2016 at the Wailing Wall for Hanukkah.
Video Israel, the army releases a video recorded by a Hamas fighter's body camera
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