Motsai Shabbos Updates From Israel: Death Toll Increases R”L; War Updates

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The IDF announced the deaths of five more soldiers during battles in northern Gaza Strip over Shabbos:

Maj. (res.) Moshe Yedidyah Leiter HY”D, 39, a company commander in the 551st Brigade’s 697th Battalion from Ein Tzurim.

Sgt. Maj. (res.) Yossi Hershkovitz HY”D, 44, a soldier in the 551st Brigade’s 697th Battalion from Gevaot.

Master Sgt. (res.) Matan Meir HY”D, 38, a soldier in the 551st Brigade’s 697th Battalion, from Odem.

Master Sgt. (res.) Sergey Shmerkin HY”D, 32, a soldier in the 551st Brigade’s 697th Battalion, from Kiryat Shmona.

Master Sgt. (res.) Netanel (Nati) Harush HY”D, 34, a soldier in the Givati Brigade’s logistics unit.

Their tragic deaths bring the grim death toll of soldiers to 42 Neshamos R”L since the start of the ground invasion in Gaza. HY”D.

War Updates: Israel’s military acknowledged clashes with Hamas operatives around the Al-Shifa Hospital, but denied firing on or laying siege to the medical center.

IDF says since the beginning of the ground operation it has captured 11 Hamas outposts in the northern Gaza Strip.

It says that in overnight operations, troops of the Nahal Brigade found and later destroyed a tunnel entrance near a school.

The 215th Brigade identified a group of Hamas operatives approaching troops of the Givati Brigade, and directed an aircraft to strike them.

The Navy also carried out strikes overnight, targeting buildings used by Hamas operatives in northern Gaza. Some of those strikes were directed by ground forces. Weapon depots, including those belonging to Hamas’s naval forces, were also hit.

IDF aircraft killed Ahmed Siam, responsible for holding approximately 1,000 Gazan residents and patients hostage at the Rantisi Hospital, and preventing their evacuation southward.

Siam was a commander in Hamas’ Naser Radwan Company, and is another example of Hamas using civilians in Gaza as human shields for terrorist purposes.

Prime Minister Netanyahu in a statement over the weekend: “Gaza will be demilitarized, and there will be no more threat from the Gaza Strip to Israel…There will be no Hamas; there will be no civil authority there indoctrinating their children to hate Israel, to kill civilians, and to destroy the State of Israel.”

The Prime Minister also confirmed there will be no cease-fire until al 239 hostages are released.

Lastly, the IDF intercepted a Hezbollah terror drone operating deep in Israeli airspace near Haifa.

Besuros Tovos.



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