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According to Israeli sources, more than 40 Hamas fighters were killed in an operation at the Shifa clinic in Gaza. The Palestinian health authority says at least 20 people have died in Israeli air strikes. All developments in the live blog.
3:18 a.m
Syria: Israel attacks military targets near Damascus
According to the Syrian Defense Ministry, Israel fired rockets at several military targets in the area around the Syrian capital Damascus. The Syrian air defense “intercepted the Israeli missiles and shot down some of them,” the ministry said in a statement. There was damage to property.
02:52
Health authority: At least 20 dead in Israeli airstrikes
According to the health authority in the Gaza Strip, at least 20 Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes on Rafah and central parts of the Gaza Strip. In the city near the Egyptian border, 14 people were killed and dozens more injured in attacks on several houses and apartments. Six more people were killed in an airstrike on a house in the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip.
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Israel: More than 40 Hamas fighters killed in operation at Al-Shifa clinic
The Israeli army says it killed more than 40 fighters from the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas and arrested more than 200 terror suspects during the operation at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari announced these updated figures in the evening. More than 20 terrorists were killed in the nighttime operation in the hospital area, including Faik al-Mabhouh, head of a Hamas internal security department. More than 20 Hamas fighters were eliminated around the clinic in the northern coastal city of Gaza, Hagari said. The Israeli military’s information could not initially be independently verified.
There was initially no official confirmation from Hamas of Al-Mabhouh’s death. The terrorist organization continues to systematically fight from hospitals and civilian facilities and uses civilians and patients as human shields, the Israeli army spokesman said. It tried to rebuild its base in the Al-Shifa hospital, the largest in Gaza, and use it as a refuge for fleeing terrorists. “We will not allow this and will strike wherever Hamas tries to regain control,” the army spokesman said.
Conflict parties as a source
In the current situation, information on the course of the war, shelling and casualties provided by the Palestinian and Israeli conflict parties cannot be directly verified by an independent body.
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Monday’s live blog for reading
Mossad chief Barnea traveled to Qatar to negotiate a ceasefire and the release of hostages. After a long break, US President Biden spoke on the phone again with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Monday’s live blog for reading.