(Gaza) Israel announced Sunday that he had killed the spokesman for the armed branch of the Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip, at a time when his army continues his offensive in the hungry Palestinian territory and ravaged by the war.
“We are now afraid of the night and to sleep in our tents,” said Iman Rajab, a resident of Gaza, after intense Israeli raids who left at least 16 dead on Sunday according to Civil Defense.
“The terrorist spokesperson for Hamas Abou Obeida was eliminated in Gaza and joined the others (people) eliminated from the Iran’s evil, Lebanon and Yemen axis at the bottom of hell,” said Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, on his account X.
The Israeli army also reported the death of “Houdhayfa al-Kahlout, alias Abeida”.
Military officials of the Hebrew state also said on Sunday that they would target Hamas leaders abroad.
“In the Gaza Strip, we hit one of the senior officials in Hamas yesterday, Abou Obeida. It’s not over, most Hamas leaders are abroad, and we will also reach them, “said Chief of the Israeli Army, Eyal Zamir, according to a military statement.
Hamas, whose unprecedented attack on October 7, 2023 against Israel sparked the war in Gaza, did not immediately react to this announcement.
Spokesperson for the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigades since 2002, Abou Obeida had been one of the heads of Hamas to announce in a video the attack on October 7.
Since the start of the war, he has made dozens of television speeches and published audio messages, as well as press releases and publications on the social networks of the movement. He always appears in military uniform and his face covered with a keffiEh.
A new wave of Nocturnal Israeli bombing has targeted several sectors of the Gaza Strip, including the eponymous city against which the army is about to launch an wake -up offensive to end Hamas.
PHOTO MAYA LEVIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS
At daybreak on Sunday, smoke rose in the sky above the city of Gaza.
At daybreak on Sunday, smoke rose in the sky above the city of Gaza, in the north of the territory, according to AFP images. Residents arrive to see the damage in front of a destroyed tent, where blankets stained with blood mingle with the rubble.
” Horror ”
“We pray that war stops because we are tired of travel, we are afraid and we are hungry,” Iman Rajab told AFP, who lives in a displaced camp targeted by a strike in the Maqousi district.
“Horror, fear and destruction. The fire broke out in all tents, only God protected us from fire, ”says Achraf Abu Amsha, living in a tent further.
In the morgue of the Al-Chifa hospital in the city of Gaza, relatives cry near bodies aligned on the ground.
Sunday, the civil defense of Gaza reported 16 people killed during Israeli military operations in the Palestinian territory, including 10 near aid distribution sites.
PHOTO MAYA LEVIN, ASSOCIATED PRESS
An Israeli soldier moves on the roof of a armored vehicle near the border between Israel and Gaza, seen from the south of Israel on Sunday.
Solicited by AFP, the Israeli army said that it was inquire while recalling that it was very difficult for it to gather information without the schedule and the precise contact details of the reported facts.
Given the restrictions imposed on the media in Gaza and the difficulties of access in the field, AFP is not able to independently check the balance sheets and the information of the various parties.
According to the UN, the vast majority of inhabitants have been moved several times by the war in Gaza, where the two million inhabitants have been besieged by Israel for almost 23 months.
The UN declared famine in this poor little territory, but Israel denies.
In an attempt to “break the illegal blockade of Gaza”, according to its organizers, a flotilla of dozens of boats responsible for humanitarian aid, led in particular by the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, was to set sail on Sunday from Barcelona.
Residents’ leakage
On Saturday, the international Red Cross warned against a massive evacuation of the population of the city of Gaza, after the army deemed “inevitable” such an evacuation in anticipation of its offensive.
Thousands of inhabitants have already fled the city. According to the UN, nearly a million people live in the governorate of Gaza, including the city and its surroundings.
With the offensive announced in the city of Gaza, Mr. Netanyahu and his far right allies say they want to end Hamas and bring the hostages always retained to Gaza.
Hamas confirmed the death of one of its leaders on Sunday, Mohammed Sinouar, three months after the Israeli army announced that it had killed him in a strike in Khan Younès in the south of the Gaza Strip.
This attack led to the death of 1,219 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count from official data. Of the 251 people kidnapped that day, 47 remain retained in Gaza, 25 of which were declared dead by the Israeli army.
The Israeli reprisal campaign left at least 63,459 dead in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.
