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Hamas said it was willing to release only 22 of the 34 hostages alive

Hamas has partially rejected a list of hostages whose release Israel seeks during the first phase of any ceasefire agreement. This was reported by the public broadcaster Kan, citing an anonymous Palestinian source, quoted by the newspaper Times of Israel. The Palestinian terrorist group is willing to release 22 of the 34 hostages on the list, but refuses to accept the release of the other 12. Instead, according to the same sources, the Gaza terrorist group has offered to release 22 live hostages and 12 bodies during the first phase of an agreement. Israel has rejected the idea and has made clear that it will only accept live hostages during the initial phase of a hostage release and ceasefire agreement. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said a military incursion, completed on Saturday, into the hospital Kamal Adwanin northern Gaza, killed 19 terrorists, “without any civilian casualties”, after the health authorities managed by Hamas, reported as always by the international press (including the Italian one), had previously stated that 50 people had been killed, including the hospital staff that “the Israelis set on fire.” Among them, the former parliamentarian of the 5 Star Movement deserves a place of honor as a fake news peddler Alessandro Di Battistaknown for his profound dislike for Israel and the Jews, who published on Instagram a photograph portraying the captured Hamas terrorists described as «what you see are doctors and patients from Gaza chased away from the Kamal Awan hospital by Israeli soldiers. The Zionist Armed Forces are doing to the Palestinians what the Nazis did to the Jews. There is no difference. For the record they burned down the hospital. The End of Humanity is being broadcast now, live even though the media have decided not to broadcast it.” Worse than him are his followers who comment on yet another fake with anti-Semitic comments.

The Kamal Adwan hospital was described by the IDF “as the last bastion of Hamas in Jabalia”, after hundreds of terrorists reportedly used the medical facility as a refuge from Israeli attacks. The IDF announced that of the 940 Palestinians who crossed an army checkpoint outside the hospital, 240 were arrested as alleged members of terrorist groups. In total, around 600 civilians and another 95 patients, assistants and medical staff were evacuated from Kamal Adwan. Regarding the 240 terrorist agents, the IDF announced that «at least 15 participated in the attack on 7 October 2023 against Israel, which started the ongoing war. Many others are considered senior commanders of the Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist groups.” Furthermore, the IDF disclosed that some of the terrorist operatives posed as medical personnel and patients, and some attempted to leave on stretchers and ambulances. Of an initial group of 21 patients who left the hospital, the military said 13 turned out to be suspected terrorist operatives. Even the director of the hospital, Hussam Abu Safiyadescribed by propal propaganda and the ineffable By Battista like “a doctor in the rubble”, he was arrested on suspicion of being a Hamas agent.

For the IDF, Kamal Radwan’s raid marked one of the largest operations in Gaza since the beginning of the war. In recent weeks the Israeli Army has intensified operations in the area of ​​this health facility, with the aim of allowing a raid on the hospital over the weekend. Before the operation, the IDF facilitated the evacuation of 350 patients, healthcare workers and medical personnel, who were safely transferred to other hospitals thanks to the collaboration of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories of the Ministry of Defense (Cogat). On Friday morning, the 401st Armored Brigade surrounded the hospital in less than an hour, advancing from two directions. During the operations the soldiers defused a large explosive device placed along a road leading to the medical center. At the same time, two Hamas cells, which attempted to escape from the facility, were neutralized by drone attacks. The Israeli Army subsequently appealed to the civilian population and patients present in the hospital to leave the facility. During the evacuation, civilians were passed through a military checkpoint, where suspects linked to terrorist activities were identified and arrested. The patients and healthcare staff, however, were transferred to the Indonesian hospital in Jabaliahalong with generators, fuel and other medical equipment supplied by Israel. Once the evacuation was concluded, the Navy’s elite Shayetet 13 unit carried out targeted operations inside the hospital. During these activities, weapons, including grenades, pistols and ammunition, were found and seized.

However, the IDF stressed that the largest number of weapons was discovered in apartments near the hospital, used by Hamas as military posts, many of which were booby-trapped. With the complete evacuation of staff and patients, the hospital Kamal Adwan it is now out of service. Its critical equipment and resources have been transferred to the Indonesian hospital, which remains operational to meet the needs of the population. The IDF said it had no plans to demolish Kamal Adwan after the raid. A military source said troops would remain in the Kamal Adwan area “to closely monitor” the hospital to ensure it does not return to serving as a base for terrorists. Military sources said there are still more operations to be conducted in Jabalia against the remaining Hamas cells, but, overall, the IDF is close to completing its mission there following the raid on the hospital used as a base by the terrorists. of Hamas.

Finally, at the time of writing we learn that a targeted operation by the Israeli Air Force (IAF), conducted on the basis of information provided by the Intelligence of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Internal Security Agency (ISA), led to the elimination of Abd al-Hadi Sabah, leading figure of Hamas. Sabah he was a Nukhba platoon commander within the Khan Yunis Western Battalion and operated from a shelter located in an area designated as a humanitarian zone. According to the IDF, Sabah was one of the main perpetrators of the infiltration of the kibbutz Nir Oz during the massacre of 7 October 2023, an episode that caused a significant number of civilian casualties (8,46 deaths and 71 hostages). During the ongoing conflict, the terrorist leader has led and orchestrated numerous attacks against Israeli forces. The operation was carried out with the adoption of measures aimed at minimizing the risk for the civilian population. These include the use of precision munitions, the use of sophisticated aerial surveillance technologies and planning based on accurate intelligence information. In an official statement, the IDF said: «We will continue to prosecute all terrorists involved in the October 7 massacre and ensure the safety of Israeli citizens»