The Israeli army announced that 4 soldiers were killed and 2 others were seriously injured during battles in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army said, in a statement, that it “allowed the publication of the killing of Reserve Staff Sergeant Alexander Fedorenko, Staff Sergeant Danila Dyakov, Sergeant Yahav Yan, and Sergeant Eliav Stocker, during the fighting in the northern Gaza Strip.”
He added, “In addition, during the incident in which Alexander Fedorenko, Danila Dyakov, Yahav Mayan, and Eliav Stocker fell, in the northern Gaza Strip, a reserve officer in the Nahal Brigade and a soldier in the 931st Battalion of the brigade were seriously injured.”
In this context, the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation reported on Sunday that 8 soldiers were injured – including 3 in serious condition – as a result of the explosion of an explosive device in a building in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, the day before yesterday, Friday.
She indicated that the eight injured soldiers were from the Givati Brigade, and the Israeli army kept quiet about the incident.
Yesterday, Saturday, the Israeli army acknowledged the killing of 4 soldiers from the Nahal Brigade and the serious wounding of an officer and a soldier as a result of the detonation of a high-explosive device in Beit Hanoun during battles in the northern Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, Palestinian media quoted settler platforms as saying, “7 Israeli soldiers were killed on Saturday, and about 30 others were injured, including 11 seriously and seriously injured.”
For its part, Maariv newspaper said that the Israeli army changed its fighting methods in Beit Hanoun after its heavy losses, as the incident, in which 4 soldiers from the Nahal Brigade were killed and 6 others were injured, prompted the Gaza Division to conduct an investigation and change the method and movement of the forces in Beit Hanoun.
Maariv added that the Israeli army’s ground maneuver in Beit Hanoun aims to restore security in the Gaza Strip and Sderot settlements.
Israeli Channel 13 reported that 50 Israeli soldiers were killed – including 11 in Beit Hanoun – since the start of the operation in the northern Gaza Strip. It also indicated that 400 soldiers have been killed to date since the start of the ground operation in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas in response to the wife of an Israeli hostage: His fate depends on Netanyahu
In a related context, the Hamas movement responded to an Israeli woman’s request to clarify the status of her husband, who is being held hostage in the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian movement said in a video clip on Saturday that his fate depends on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Sharon Cuneo, in a video message in Arabic, on Friday, asked Hamas to provide a sign that her husband, David, is alive, and urged his captors to treat him properly.
According to Agence France-Presse, Cuneo herself was kidnapped during the attack launched by the Palestinian movement on Israel on October 7, 2023, and she was released with her twin 3-year-old daughters during the only truce that lasted a week in November 2023.
The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas, responded in a video on Saturday, in which she said that her husband, David, “after you left and the military pressure increased, he was either killed, injured, or in good health.” She added, “Netanyahu has not decided yet. Time is running out.”
This comes as indirect negotiations have been taking place between Hamas and Israel in Qatar since last week, with the aim of reaching a ceasefire agreement and the release of hostages and Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.
The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday, “Israel will send a delegation headed by the head of the Mossad to Qatar to continue talks on a possible agreement to release the hostages held in the Gaza Strip.”
On the day of the attack, 251 people were kidnapped, 94 of whom are still in Gaza, and the army announced the killing or death of 34 of them.
On the other hand, more than 46,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, women and children, were killed in the Israeli military campaign in Gaza, according to data from the Ministry of Health run by Hamas, and considered reliable by the United Nations.
Qatar, along with the United States and Egypt, has been playing the role of mediator in talks that have been going on for months behind the scenes. With the aim of reaching a truce in Gaza and releasing the hostages.
But with the exception of a week in which the fighting stopped in late 2023, during which dozens of hostages held by Hamas were released in exchange for Palestinians who were in Israeli prisons, successive rounds of negotiations during the war failed.
A previous round of mediation in December ended with each side blaming the other for failure; Hamas accused Israel of setting “new conditions,” while the Hebrew state accused the Palestinian movement of creating “new obstacles” to reaching an agreement.
“Israel has continued its military operations in the Gaza Strip, since October 7, 2023, which led to the death and injury of more than 150,000 Palestinians in the Strip, the majority of whom are women and children.”
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