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Israel’s Minister of Defense: Numbers High Price in Gaza
The Israeli military has intensified its offensive in the Gaza Strip. Katz praises the successes of the armed forces in the fight against Islamist Hamas, but also admits losses.
According to Defense Minister Israel Katz, the Israeli armed forces pay a high price for their military success in the fight against Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “Thousands of regular and reserve soldiers are currently fighting bravely in the Gaza Strip to free the hostages and destroy the Hamas terrorists,” he wrote on the news platform X. “The successes are great, but the dangers are still great and the price is high.”
On Thursday, an Israeli soldier was killed in the fights in the Gaza Strip. The 26-year-old tank driver was shot by a sniper, as the newspaper “The Times of Israel” reported. At the time of his death, his great-grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, was therefore in Germany at a memorial event in the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
More than 400 Israeli soldiers killed in the Gaza war
On Friday, according to the military, another soldier in the south of the Gaza Strip was seriously injured in fighting. Defense Minister Katz called the Israelis to pray for the success and safety of the soldiers. According to the military, more than 400 Israeli soldiers have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the soil offensive.
The Israeli forces have recently intensified their offensive in the Gaza Strip. They want to clear the remaining hostages and smash the Hamas. Shortly after Katz’s opinion, the military asked the people from the district to leave the area in Gaza city to leave the area because of an upcoming attack.
Two dozen deaths in Israeli air raids in the Gaza Strip
According to a report by the Palestinian news agency Wafa, four people died in air strikes in Gaza City and Beit Hanun in the north of the coastal strip. According to a local clinic, 21 people were killed in Israeli air raids on two houses in southern Gaza Strip. The houses of two families in Chan Junis were hit, as employees of the local Nasser Hospital reported. The information could not be checked independently. The Israeli military initially did not comment on the incident.
Since the beginning of the Gaza War in October 2023, according to the health authorities controlled by Hamas, 51,439 Palestinians have fallen victim to the fighting. The data does not distinguish between combatants and civilians. The Gaza War was triggered by Hamas and other extremist groups on Israel on October 7, 2023.
Rocket from Jemen intercepted to Israel on the way to Israel
The Israeli armed forces meanwhile caught a rocket fired from Yemen. The floor had already been destroyed before it reached Israeli airspace, the military said. Since the outbreak of the Gaza War, the Huthi militia in Yemen has regularly shooted rockets or drones on destinations in Israel and ships in the Red Sea. Like the Hamas in the Gaza Strip and the Hisbollah in Lebanon, the group is supported by Israel’s archenemy Iran.
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Source: Stern
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