The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit announced that on Wednesday, under the direction of the IDF and ISA intelligence, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) conducted a targeted attack against terrorists who were operating inside a command and control center located in a compound that formerly housed the Al Jaouni School in the Nuseirat area of the central Gaza Strip.
After receiving reports that local Palestinian UNRWA workers were killed in the attack, the IDF requested the UN agency to provide details and names of the workers, in order to carefully review the request. To date, the UN agency has not provided a response despite repeated requests. So far, several Hamas terrorists have been confirmed to have been killed in the attack, including:
Aysar Karadia, a terrorist from the military wing and internal security forces of Hamas. Muhammad Adnan Abu Zayd, a terrorist from the military wing of Hamas, responsible for launching mortars at IDF troops and the State of Israel, previously served as an officer in the Hamas naval forces and was simultaneously an employee of UNRWA. Bassem Majed Shaheen, a leader of a terrorist cell from the military wing of Hamas, who took part in the October 7 massacre in southern Israel. Amar al-Jadili, a terrorist from the military wing and internal security forces of Hamas. Akram Saber al-Ghalaydi, a terrorist from the military wing and internal security forces of Hamas. Muhammad Issa Abu al-Amir, a terrorist from the military wing of Hamas who took part in the October 7 massacre in southern Israel. Sharif Salam, a terrorist from the military wing of Hamas. Yasser Ibrahim Abu Sharar, a terrorist from the military wing of Hamas and an officer of the Hamas emergency office in Nuseirat, who was at the same time an employee of UNRWA, and Ayad Matar, a terrorist from the military wing of Hamas and at the same time an employee of UNRWA.
The IDF also announced that over the past few months, troops from the 162nd Division have conducted targeted, precise and intelligence-based operations in the Rafah area. So far, the troops have eliminated over 2,000 terrorists and destroyed approximately 13 kilometers of underground tunnel routes. During these operations, the troops dismantled the Rafah Brigade of the terrorist organization Hamas. Over the past few weeks, the Nahal Brigade, Givati Brigade, 401st Brigade, Yahalom Unit and Shayetet 13 have operated in the Tel al-Sultan area. During the operation, over 250 terrorists were eliminated, including the commander of the Tel al-Sultan Battalion, Mahmoud Hamdan, and most of the battalion’s chain of command. The troops destroyed 80 percent of the underground tunnel routes located near and under the Philadelphia Corridor. The division’s engineering forces and the Yahalom Unit continue to locate and destroy underground tunnel routes and terrorist infrastructure in the area.
On the front of negotiations for a ceasefire and the release of hostages, the day after the meeting of the Hamas negotiating team in Doha with the Qatari prime minister and the head of Egyptian intelligence, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Palestinian militant group “of trying to hide the fact that it continues to oppose the agreement for the release of the hostages and is obstructing it.” On Thursday, the Palestinian group confirmed the meeting in the Qatari capital with Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and Abbas Kamel to try to break the deadlock in the negotiations. After the face-to-face meeting, Hamas said “it views positively the achievement of a ceasefire agreement that will include the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the entire Gaza Strip.” The jihadist group said it has no new demands and opposes any new demands. “We have given our response to the mediators and we are interested in further mediation to reach an agreement,” it said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he accepted the latest US-made deal proposal on August 16 to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, but he again accused Hamas of rejecting the deal, explaining in a statement that Hamas jihadists “are trying to hide the fact that they continue to oppose the possibility of reaching an agreement that would lead to the release of the hostages. While Israel accepts the final US proposal, Hamas rejects it and even executes six hostages in cold blood,” Netanyahu added, before recalling that “the world must demand Hamas’ immediate release of the hostages.”
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