The issue of Hamas and Israel IS STILL up in the air…..
The senior Hamas commander Raed Saedhas been killed in a strike on a car in Gaza City, the Israeli military said on Saturday.
The attack killed four people and wounded at least 25 others, according to Gaza health authorities. There was no immediate confirmation from Hamasor medics that Saed was among the dead.
“In response to the activation of a Hamas explosive device that wounded our forces today … prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Israel Katz instructed the elimination of the terrorist Raed Saed, head of Hamas’ force buildup,” the prime minister and the defence minister said in a joint statement.
The Israeli military described Saed as “one of the architects” of the 7 October 2023 attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza. The military earlier on Saturday said two reserve soldiers were lightly injured after the device detonated “during an operation to clear the area” in southern Gaza.
Saed’s death would be the most significant assassination of a senior Hamas figure since a ceasefire deal came into effect in October.
An Israeli defence official said Saed had been targeted in the attack, describing him as the head of Hamas’s weapons manufacturing force.
Hamas sources have described him as the second-in-command of the group’s armed wing, after Izz eldeen al-Hadad.
Saed used to head Hamas’s Gaza City battalion, one of the group’s largest and best equipped, those sources said.
The war in Gaza began after Hamas-led militants killed 1,200 people, most of them civilians, and seized 251 hostages in an attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023. Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed more than 70,700 Palestinians, most of them civilians, health officials in Gaza said.
The 10 October ceasefire has enabled hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to return to Gaza City’s ruins. Israel has pulled troops back from city positions, and aid flows have increased.
But violence has not completely halted…
Note…
It appears that Israel WILL continue to hunt down senior Hamas military fighters if they do N OT surrender their weapons….
This IS going on as tens of thousand’s return to Gaza and talks go on….
And people live in tents….
While Trump’s plan wants a US led multi-country security force in Gaza?
It is unknown if THAT can happen if Hamas IS armed and Israel is hunting them down…..
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By the Way?
- Exclusive: The U.S. cut off a live video feed from a drone over Gaza which Israel was using in its hunt for hostages and Hamas militants. The suspension lasted for at least a few days and was motivated by concerns about Israel’s conduct of the war.
- Middle East: Israel’s cabinet will give legal status to 19 settlementsin the occupied West Bank, Israeli media reported. Heavy rains may flood the tents and shelters of hundreds of thousands of displaced Gazans, the U.N. migration agency warned. A baby died of exposure during the rains, local health officials said.
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