Status: 02.12.2023, 05:38 a.m.
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The Israeli army has resumed fighting in the Gaza Strip against the Islamist Hamas after the ceasefire. © Ilia Yefimovich/dpa
The war in the Gaza Strip continues after the ceasefire ended. Both sides are fighting relentlessly. According to a media report, Israel is receiving military support. The overview.
Gaza/Tel Aviv - According to media reports, the Israeli military continued to massively attack targets of the Islamist Hamas and other terrorist groups in the southern Gaza Strip during the night. Heavy fighting was reported from the south of the cordoned-off coastal area, according to Israeli media reports.
They focused on the area around Chan Junis. Parts of the Hamas leadership are said to have been in the city. Hamas had fired rockets at the center of Israel for the first time after the end of the one-week pause in fighting the day before, according to its own statements. Since the beginning of the Gaza war, Israeli figures indicate that around 10,000 rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
Fierce fighting also in southern Gaza
As the newspaper "The Times of Israel" reported during the night, citing residents of the blockaded Gaza Strip, the Israeli military had dropped leaflets in the city of Khan Yunis calling on residents to flee to Rafah in the south. Israel's army says it has attacked hundreds of targets in the north and south of the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire ended.
According to the army, areas covered with booby-traps were targeted, as well as shafts of Hamas tunnels, launch pads and command centers. Targets were attacked in the north and in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. The information could not be independently verified.
Report: U.S. Delivered Bunker-Busting Bombs to Israel
The U.S. reportedly supplied Israel with 100 bunker-buster bombs for the war, as well as tens of thousands of other weapons. The Wall Street Journal reported, citing U.S. officials, that after Hamas' unprecedented massacre in Israel on October 7, Israel alone was provided with 100 bunker-buster bombs. The delivery of additional weapons and ammunition, including about 15,000 bombs and 57,000 artillery shells, began shortly after the Hamas attack on Israel and has continued in recent days.
Israel's army fights "as long as necessary"
Israel's army has not set a time limit for the Gaza war, according to a spokesman. "We are determined to fight Hamas for as long as it takes," Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus said, adding, "We have no other choice." Conricus reaffirmed his country's war goal of completely destroying the terrorist organization so that it would no longer pose a threat to Israel in the future.
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The spokesman was responding to media reports that U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in his recent talks with the Israeli leadership, allegedly spoke of three weeks for Israel to continue the war as before. He was not sure if Israel would have the international support to continue fighting with the intensity it had before the ceasefire, Blinken was quoted as saying in Israeli media.
Body of hostage recovered
Israel's military, meanwhile, says it has recovered the body of an Israeli abducted to Gaza. She was recently discovered and brought back to Israel, the army said on Friday evening. The dead man was identified on Wednesday. According to media reports, terrorists abducted the 27-year-old to the Gaza Strip on October 7 along with about 240 other people. According to the report, he had visited the Supernova Festival with friends.
An Israeli military spokesman also confirmed the deaths of four more hostages of the Islamist Hamas. According to media reports, the bodies are still in the Gaza Strip. The military continues its efforts to obtain more information on the condition of the remaining hostages remaining in the Gaza Strip, the spokesman said.
Israel assumes that 137 hostages are still held
A spokesman for the Israeli government had earlier said that 137 hostages were still being held in the Gaza Strip. At first, it was unclear whether the dead were among them. He put the number at 136 on Friday night, including 17 women and children. Since the beginning of the war against Hamas, Israeli ground forces had already recovered several Israeli bodies from the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians: Aid to Gaza halted
According to Palestinian and Egyptian sources, no aid has arrived in the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire expired. Egypt is ready to provide assistance, security sources said on Friday. However, this is not possible because of the Israeli bombing raids in the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians assess the damage caused by an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip. © Mohammed Talatene/dpa
Israel, meanwhile, wants to get rid of the representative of the UN emergency relief office Ocha for the Palestinian territories, Lynn Hastings. "We have been informed by the Israeli authorities that Hastings' visa, which expires in December, will not be extended," UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Friday.
In the course of the Gaza war, Israel had repeatedly expressed its displeasure with Hastings. Ocha, for his part, has repeatedly criticized the lack of access for humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. The United Nations is dependent on cooperation with Israel in order to be able to bring as many supplies as possible to the war zone.
What is becoming important today
The fierce fighting in the Gaza Strip continues, as do diplomatic efforts for a new ceasefire. The Islamist Hamas has called for solidarity demonstrations around the world. Dpa