The Israeli army said on Friday that it had arrested “more than 20 terrorists who participated” in the Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7, among “dozens of suspects” arrested at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younes, in the Gaza Strip. . She adds that she found in the vicinity of the hospital complex “remains of mortar shells, grenades and other weapons belonging” to Hamas, which according to her has used the hospital to fire on Israeli forces in recent weeks.
“(Israeli) troops found weapons inside the hospital and apprehended dozens of terrorism suspects, including more than 20 terrorists who participated in the October 7 massacres” in Israel, the Israeli army said in a press release.
The main information:
- The IDF said this Friday that it had arrested “more than 20 terrorists who participated” in the Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7.
- The Hamas Health Ministry announced Friday that 28,775 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war.
- Hamas Health Ministry says four patients died after power outages shut down oxygen supply at Gaza hospital
- Five fighters from Hezbollah and its allied Amal movement were killed during Israeli raids on southern Lebanon overnight from Thursday to Friday
4 dead after oxygen cuts in Gaza hospital
The Hamas Health Ministry announced Friday that four patients had died after power outages caused oxygen distribution to stop at a Gaza hospital after Israeli forces took control of it. “The generators of the hospital complex stopped and the electricity was cut” in the Nasser hospital in Khan Younes, the ministry said in a press release. He added he feared for the lives of nine other patients in the hospital’s intensive care unit and nursery, and held “Israeli forces responsible for the lives of patients and teams” there.
The ministry said Thursday that several hundred people — patients, medical staff and other civilians — were still inside the hospital complex. The Israeli army explained the same day that it had launched a “targeted operation” on the Nasser hospital after having had “credible information” indicating that Hamas had held hostages there “and that there might be bodies hostages” on site. She then clarified in the evening that she had “not yet found evidence” of this in the complex, but had seized “weapons, grenades and mortar shells”.
Hamas Health Ministry announces new death toll of 28,775
After more than four months of war between Israel and Hamas, the violence is concentrated in the south of the besieged and devastated Gaza Strip, between the towns of Khan Younes and Rafah, the last town in the south of the Gaza Strip, backed on the closed border with Egypt. The Nasser hospital has in recent weeks received thousands of civilians fleeing the war, some of whom fled in recent days in chaotic conditions as the heat of the fighting between the army and the terrorist movement grew closer.
The war was sparked by the unprecedented Hamas attack on October 7 in southern Israel, which resulted in the deaths of more than 1,160 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data. Israel in retaliation launched an offensive in the Gaza Strip which left 28,775 dead, the vast majority of them civilians, according to the latest report on Friday from the Hamas Ministry of Health.
Five fighters from Hezbollah and its ally killed
Five fighters from Hezbollah and its allied Amal movement were killed during Israeli raids on southern Lebanon during the night from Thursday to Friday, the two groups announced. These strikes come after deadly violence in the border region, where exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah have intensified and raised fears of an escalation. According to the official National News Agency (ANI), the Israeli air force carried out strikes during the night on five villages in the south of the country.
The Shiite Amal movement, led by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, deplored the death of three of its members, killed in a strike on a house in the village of Al-Qantara. Hezbollah, for its part, announced the death of two of its fighters. This brings to twelve the number of members of the powerful movement supported and armed by Iran killed since Wednesday.
268 people killed in southern Lebanon
The Islamist group announced Thursday evening that it had fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel, in response to Israeli raids which left 15 dead the day before. Ten civilians and five members of Hezbollah, including a military leader, were killed. On the Israeli side, a soldier died in a rocket attack from Lebanon which was not claimed. Wednesday was the bloodiest day since the exchange of fire on the border between Hezbollah and the Israeli army began more than four months ago.
Hezbollah opened the southern Lebanese front to support its ally, Palestinian Hamas, at war with Israel in the Gaza Strip since the terrorist movement’s unprecedented attack in southern Israel on October 7. Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah is due to deliver a new speech on Friday, the second this week. In more than four months, at least 268 people, mostly fighters from Hezbollah and other allied groups but also 40 civilians, have been killed in southern Lebanon, according to an AFP count. On the Israeli side, ten soldiers and six civilians were killed, according to the army.