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The Israeli army reported this morning that it had managed to free two hostages during an operation in Rafah, southern Gaza.
Both have been transferred to the Sheba hospital, in central Israel.
For its part, Hamas has accused Israel of having committed a “massacre against unarmed civilians” during the rescue operation.
“It has caused more than 100 martyrs, it is a continuation of the genocide and attempts at forced displacement against our Palestinian people,” the Islamist group said in a statement.
The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has confirmed the upcoming entry of military forces into the city of Rafah, the last refuge for more than a million Palestinians forcibly displaced in the Gaza Strip, to eliminate “the battalions that are left of Hamas.”
Netanyahu confirmed this in an interview with the American network ABC.
“We are going to do it,” he assured.
US President Joe Biden has warned the Israeli Prime Minister by telephone that the attack cannot be carried out “without a credible and executable plan that guarantees security and support” for the refugees in Rafah.
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Hamas accuses Israel of committing a "massacre" with a hundred dead during the rescue of two hostages in Rafah
The Islamist group Hamas has accused Israel of having committed a “massacre against unarmed civilians” in Rafah, at the southern end of the Gaza Strip where there are more than a million displaced Gazans, during the rescue operation this morning of two hostages. Israelis.
“The attack carried out tonight by the Nazi occupation army in Rafah and its horrendous massacres against unarmed civilians, including displaced children, women and the elderly, which has so far caused more than 100 martyrs, is a continuation of genocide and attempted forced displacement against our Palestinian people,” the Islamist group said in a statement.
Palestinian medical sources previously reported fifty deaths during the operation, although they also noted that the number may increase as bodies are rescued from the rubble after intense Israeli bombing.
This morning in Rafah, Israeli forces rescued two hostages, Fernando Simón Marman, 60, and Norberto Louis Har, 70, both kidnapped in the Nir Yitzhak kibbutz on October 7;
although there are still 130 captives inside, around thirty dead.
Israeli Army spokesman Daniel Hagari indicated that the rescue operation in a building in the heart of Rafah was carried out with the support of “intense firepower” from the Air Force;
and that about fifty “terrorists” died nearby, with no casualties in the Israeli ranks.
(Efe)
ACT.12 FEB 2024 - 07:46
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Israel claims to have freed two Hamas hostages in an operation in Rafah
The Israeli army reported this morning that it has managed to free two hostages during an operation by its soldiers in Rafah, southern Gaza.
The two have been transferred to the Sheba hospital, in central Israel, according to a statement from the medical center, which assures that both are “in good condition.”
Those released have been identified as Fernando Simon Marman, 60, and Louis Hare, 70. Both are brothers-in-law and were taken hostage in the Hamas attacks on October 7 along with Clara Marman, Fernando's sister and Louis' wife. ;
her other sister, Gabriela Leimberg, and her daughter, Mia.
The three were released on November 28 during the week-long truce in which a hundred kidnapped women and children were freed in exchange for 240 Palestinian women and children prisoners of Israel.
The operation has been carried out jointly by the army, the Shin Bet (internal security services) and a special police unit.
(Reuters)
ACT.12 FEB 2024 - 08:36
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Israel claims to have thwarted a Palestinian attack in Jerusalem's Old City and killed the attacker
Israeli Police officers have shot and killed a young Palestinian who tried to stab them at a checkpoint in the Old City of Jerusalem, while regional tension remains high.
“A terrorist approached a checkpoint” in the Via Dolorosa area of the Old City, after which members of the Border Police ordered him to stop for inspection, and “when the suspect approached he pulled out a knife and “He tried to stab them,” said a police spokesperson.
A passer-by was slightly injured in the leg by shrapnel from gunshots during the incident, added the Police, who have also not detailed the identity of the attacker.
The Old City of Jerusalem, where the Al Aqsa Mosque is located - the third holiest place in Islam - or the Wailing Wall - the first place of worship in Judaism - is one of the epicenters of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the tension has increased further following the outbreak of war in Gaza on October 7.
All of this has meant that Israeli forces have reinforced their deployment in the streets of the Old City, where for months they have also greatly limited the access of Palestinian worshipers to the Esplanade of the Mosques.
(Efe)
ACT.11 FEB 2024 - 22:54
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A group of Palestinians flee Rafah this Saturday.
/ MOHAMMED SABER / EFE
What has happened in the last few hours
These are the latest news on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza at 8:30 p.m. this Sunday, February 11:
Biden to Netanyahu: there should be no offensive in Rafah without a plan to protect the inhabitants
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The president of the United States, Joe Biden, warned this Sunday the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that the imminent military operation against the city of Rafah in Gaza that the Israeli forces are preparing should not be carried out “without a credible and executable plan that guarantee security and support” to the 1.4 million people refugees in this town on the border with Egypt, according to the White House.
France urges Israel to stop attacks on Rafah to avoid “a disaster
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This Sunday, France urged Israel to stop the attacks on the Gazan city of Rafah in order to "avoid a humanitarian disaster."
“Israel must take concrete measures to protect the lives of the civilian population in Gaza,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The city, in southern Gaza and on the border with Egypt, is home to more than a million people who have taken refuge there from the fighting and is also “a vital transit point for humanitarian aid,” the note adds.
“A large-scale Israeli offensive would create a catastrophic humanitarian situation of an unjustifiable new dimension,” the note says.
The statement added that "France opposes any forced displacement of populations, prohibited by international humanitarian law."
The WHO joins the concern about an Israeli attack on Rafah
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The director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, expressed this Sunday his “extreme concern” about a potential Israeli attack on Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
“Carrying out these plans could have devastating consequences for 1.4 million people who no longer have places to go, and who almost no longer have anywhere to find healthcare,” Tedros indicated through the account. of X of him.
Abbas visits Qatar to participate in Gaza ceasefire talks
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The president of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, arrived this Sunday in Doha, the capital of Qatar, to discuss the role of his government in a potential ceasefire in the Gaza war.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa has expected that Abbas will meet with Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on Monday, but did not say whether he would also meet with leaders of Hamas, with whom he has a bitter struggle for power in the territories under Palestinian control. .
Al Assad says Israel and Western countries are “at a dead end” in the conflict with Gaza
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The Syrian president, Bashar al Assad, considers that Israel and the Western countries that support him in the war in the Gaza Strip are "in a dead end", from which they intend to escape with the repeated Israeli attacks against Lebanon, Syria and the escalation in the south of the Palestinian enclave.
“The Zionist entity and the West find themselves in a dead end today (...) and the Israeli escalation in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon is nothing more than an attempt to get out of this dead end,” Al Assad said during a meeting in Damascus with the Foreign Minister of Iran, Hosein Amir Abdolahian, according to a statement from the Syrian Presidency.
The armed wing of Hamas claims that two Israeli hostages have been killed in the bombings.
Hamas's armed wing, the Al Qassam Brigades, has claimed that Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip over the past 96 hours have killed two Israeli hostages and seriously injured eight others.
“Their conditions are becoming more dangerous in light of the inability to provide them with adequate treatment.
"(Israel) bears full responsibility for the lives of those injured by the continued bombing," the statement said.
ACT.11 FEB 2024 - 20:30