“Families informed” – Israel: 199 hostages already kidnapped by Hamas

The hostages also include foreigners and people with dual nationality. “The efforts to reach the hostages are a top national priority,” Hagari said.

“The army and Israel are working around the clock to bring them back.”

“Our attack targets are based on intelligence information”
Asked how the fact that so many hostages are being held in the coastal strip affects Israeli attacks there, the army spokesman said: “Our attack objectives are based on intelligence information.” They know exactly what they are attacking there, namely Hamas’ infrastructure. , who rules there, and high-ranking members of the organization.

At the same time, Hagari reiterated that Hamas was preventing people from moving to safety from the north to the south of the Gaza Strip, as ordered by Israel. “Unfortunately, Hamas uses its people as a shield and civilians are killed,” Hagari said.

“Great efforts”
Hundreds of thousands of Gaza residents have already moved to the southern part of the coastal strip, the spokesman said. The United Nations had criticized Israel’s evacuation order and warned of a humanitarian catastrophe. “Huge efforts” are being made to use intelligence information to find out exactly where the hostages are being held in the Gaza Strip, Hagari said. There will be no attacks “that endanger our people.” Hamas claimed that hostages had been killed in the airstrikes. This cannot be independently verified.

“Attacks continued”
As hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip seek protection from the expected Israeli ground offensive, the Israeli air force says it will continue bombing Hamas targets. The Israeli army announced early Monday morning that attacks in the Gaza Strip had continued over the past 24 hours. As the news site Ynet reported, citing Palestinians, these were the worst attacks yet. The Israeli Air Force has been carrying out counter-attacks in the Gaza Strip since the Hamas terror attacks ten days ago, which left more than 1,400 dead.

Gaza: Israeli army calls on population to flee
The army again called on the population in the north of the Gaza Strip and the city of Gaza to flee to the south of the coastal area. The army will not attack a corresponding escape corridor between 8 a.m. and 12 a.m. (7 a.m. and 11 a.m. CEST), an army spokesman said in Arabic on the X platform (formerly Twitter). He published a map with a marked route.

Hundreds of thousands of reservists took action
The number of deaths in the Gaza Strip has now risen to 2,750. Another 9,700 people were injured, the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip said on Monday. Meanwhile, the Israeli army is preparing a possible ground offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of thousands of reservists have been mobilized on the Gaza border.

Ceasefire agreed for South Gaza?
According to Egyptian security sources, the US, Egypt and Israel have agreed on a ceasefire for the southern Gaza Strip. This would start at 8am (CEST), according to news agency Reuters, people familiar with the matter said. This is accompanied by the opening of the Rafah border crossing in Egypt until 4:00 PM on Monday afternoon (CEST).

However, Israel denied a ceasefire for the southern Gaza Strip. “There is currently no ceasefire and no humanitarian assistance in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the withdrawal of foreigners,” said a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. The radical Islamic group Hamas said it was not aware of a ceasefire for humanitarian purposes.