Israel continued its retaliatory attacks across the Gaza Strip overnight, killing at least 950 Palestinians so far. The Israeli army said on Wednesday that its warplanes hit more than 200 targets in a Gaza City neighborhood that Hamas used in Saturday’s wave of attacks. According to the terrorist organization, senior Hamas members were also killed. The number of Israelis killed in the major attacks has risen to 1,200.
- Rockets were also fired from Syria at Israeli positions on Tuesday evening.
- The death toll in Israel as a result of the Hamas attack has risen to 1,200, according to the army.
- The US has pledged further support to Israel and an aircraft carrier has been sent to the region. Hamas is also holding American citizens hostage.
- There is major disagreement in the EU over whether aid money should continue to flow to the Palestinians.
- Politically motivated hackers have attacked more than a hundred Israeli websites in recent days.
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Members of Hamas leadership killed
The senior Hamas members killed in an airstrike on Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip were Jawad Abu Shammala and Zakaria Abu Maamar, a representative of the terror group said. They are the first senior Hamas figures to be killed since Israeli airstrikes on the enclave began.
Israel said Abu Shammala led a number of operations targeting Israeli civilians. Hamas-affiliated media also reported that one of the destroyed houses belonged to the father of Mohammed Deif, the leader of the Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s armed wing. Deif’s brother and other family members were killed.
Hamas, classified as a terrorist organization by the US, EU and Israel, carried out the worst massacre of civilians since Israel’s founding with a major attack on the border area on Saturday. The terrorists broke into towns on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah (Joy of the Torah) and searched homes for victims. They shot men, women and children and abducted others to the Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed “revenge” on Sunday.
The colonel expects a “sledgehammer” approach
Colonel Berthold Sandtner of the National Defense Academy believes an Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip is possible at any time. All conditions for this have already been created, he said on Tuesday evening during ORF’s “ZiB 2”. “Apparently there is still no political approval for this.” Sandtner expects that Israel will now proceed “with a sledgehammer.” He also recalled that Israel has announced that this time it wants to “shake Hamas to its foundations and eradicate it.”
Source: Krone
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