Jerusalem, Jul 14 (EFE).- The Israeli military mentioned that its in depth bombardment of a humanitarian zone within the southern Gaza Strip yesterday killed Rafaa Salameh, the right-hand man of Hamas’s quantity two within the enclave, whereas some 15 Gazans died this Sunday in an Israeli assault on a college.
Salameh, one of many masterminds behind the October 7 bloodbath in Israel, was the commander of the Hamas brigade in Khan Yunis, an vital area within the south of the Gaza Strip, and is believed to have been along with his navy chief, Mohamed Deif, the Islamist group’s quantity two, on the time of the bombing, and towards whom the assault was allegedly directed.
Though Deif’s dying has not been confirmed, the five-rocket assault on him – carried out on Mawasi, an space designated as a humanitarian zone by Israeli forces in early Might – left a minimum of 90 useless and greater than 300 wounded, most of them youngsters and ladies, in response to figures from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Ministry of Well being.
Israel justified the assault by saying it was focused and had hit a Hamas compound in an unpopulated space, not the tent cities housing tons of of hundreds of displaced individuals.
Salameh joined Hamas within the early Nineteen Nineties below Mohamed Sinwar, the brother of Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s chief contained in the Strip and essentially the most highly effective man inside the group on the time.
In keeping with Israel, the elimination of Salameh “considerably hampers Hamas’ navy capabilities.”
On Sunday, Gaza rescue staff accomplished their rescue work in Mawasi, the place they recorded 1,200 destroyed tents housing hundreds of displaced individuals, in addition to the destruction of the amenities of a humanitarian NGO, a water desalination plant and harm to 5 kilometers of roads and streets.
Shin Wager safety company chief Ron Bar hailed the assault in Khan Yunis as the results of surgical intelligence, saying Israeli forces had killed 25 suspected militants previously week who took half within the October 7 assault that sparked the conflict.
For his half, Protection Minister Yoav Gallant met with the fighter pilots concerned within the operation: “Because of their work, now we have the liberty of motion and suppleness (…) Hamas can not rebuild its capabilities,” he mentioned.
Assault on a college
On Sunday, a minimum of 15 individuals had been killed and 80 others injured in an Israeli bombing of a college run by the United Nations company for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) within the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, the place tons of of displaced individuals had been searching for refuge from the combating.
The navy justified the bombing by saying that the Abu Arban college “served as a hiding place and operational infrastructure from which assaults towards the armed forces had been deliberate and carried out,” and that it tried to “mitigate the danger of harming civilians” by utilizing precision munitions and intelligence measures.
“Nobody contacted us to report the presence of militants or needed individuals inside the college,” mentioned Adnan Abu Hasna, media adviser to UNRWA, in a press release, noting that in whole some 550 individuals have died in centres like this one.
As well as, in response to the company’s newest report, 197 UNRWA staff have misplaced their lives since 7 October and 188 of its amenities have been broken by Israeli assaults.
Movies broadcast on Palestinian channels present tons of of individuals operating by the college yard, some carrying wounded individuals, whereas within the affected space dozens of civilians attempt to dig out these trapped within the rubble, together with a toddler.
One other picture reveals two males following these carrying the wounded, every carrying an amputated arm belonging to another person, whereas one in every of them shouts “God, have mercy on us.”
Because the conflict started, a complete of 38,584 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, most of them ladies and kids, and one other 88,881 have been injured, not together with the hundreds of individuals nonetheless trapped below the rubble throughout the devastated enclave.
This comes at a vital time for negotiations on a ceasefire within the enclave that may enable the discharge of the 100 or so Israeli hostages nonetheless held within the besieged Palestinian territory.
Amid hypothesis over whether or not the Islamist group will finish the talks in response to the bombing, Izzat al Rasheq, a senior Hamas official, mentioned Hamas had not but deserted the negotiations however accused Netanyahu and his authorities of attempting to “block the trail to searching for an settlement.”
The conflict broke out on October 7 after a Hamas assault that left some 1,200 useless and 251 kidnapped. EFE
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