The IDF continues its operations in the Gaza Strip. She found the bodies of 3 Israeli hostages kidnapped on October 7.
In Rafah, tanks and soldiers attacked Hamas positions, closing in on refugee camps to the seaside west of the city.
In the north, the last two functioning hospitals in the Jabalia region have been under siege for several days; the Israeli army considers them to be terrorist strongholds. It targeted the installations with artillery and small arms fire.
End of operation in Jenin
In the West Bank, heavy fighting took place in Jenin and the city’s refugee camp. They reportedly left a dozen dead and 25 injured on the Palestinian side.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad said its fighters clashed with Israeli forces, as did the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party.
Jenin and the adjacent urban refugee camp have long been a bastion of armed struggle against Israeli occupation, and the frequency of IDF raids has steadily increased during the Gaza war.
According to the spokesperson for the Israeli army, the operation in Jenin ended after two days of intense fighting.
Footage was also released showing Israeli soldiers storming a bakery near Ramallah. A man who had taken refuge there allegedly threw stones at them.
Netanyahu: “Israel has detailed, important, even surprising plans.”
Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Israel’s Northern Regional Command near the Lebanese border and assessed the situation. He declared that Israel “has detailed, important, even surprising plans“but didn’t want to say more, so as not to”share these plans with the enemy“.
He added that these plans “are designed to do two things:restore security to the North, and return residents safely to their homes.”
“We are determined to achieve these two things together,” he clarified.
Hezbollah began launching attacks along Israel’s border with Lebanon shortly after the Hamas assault on October 7.
Hostages in Gaza: 3 bodies found overnight
Thursday evening in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, hundreds of people once again demanded the return of hostages still held for almost 8 months in the Gaza Strip. The demonstrators demanded that the government make a deal with Hamas.
And we learned this Friday that the Israeli army found in Gaza the bodies of three hostages killed on October 7.
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