“This can be a tough marketing campaign, it requires fight in Gaza,” Tzachi Hanegbi, Israel’s nationwide safety adviser, mentioned in a press briefing earlier this week. “There isn’t a fight with out a painful worth.”
Since starting its floor operation in Gaza, which has witnessed heavy city preventing in addition to situations of Hamas groups rising from tunnels to ambush Israeli tanks and patrols, the Israel Protection Forces (IDF) have lost 18 troopers, and 333 for the reason that starting of the battle’s begin with the Oct.seventh Bloodbath.
Tanks and infantry items have continued urgent towards Gaza Metropolis, and airstrikes have as soon as once more reportedly intensified, with Israeli media extensively reporting main sustained firefights. Regardless of Israel’s clear navy superiority when it comes to heavy armor, air energy, superior weaponry, and numbers – Hamas has honed guerilla ways and is making use of its huge community of underground tunnels to stage lethal ambushes.
Center East Eye has additionally described:
The Israeli military radio mentioned that “extended” and intense preventing came about in a single day after Israeli infantry troops had been ambushed by Palestinian fighters. The report mentioned 20 Hamas fighters died whereas the military mentioned it killed “dozens of operatives” with out offering additional particulars.
Following this, on Thursday afternoon (native time) Israel has confirmed the primary loss of life of a senior officer of the offensive: a battalion commander.
The Instances of Israel cites Israeli navy sources to establish that “Lt. Col. Salman Habaka, 33, the commander of the 188th Armored Brigade’s 53rd Battalion, from Yanuh-Jat, was killed battling Hamas terrorists within the northern a part of Gaza.”
“Habaka is essentially the most senior officer to have been killed in the course of the IDF’s floor operation within the Gaza Strip. No additional particulars got on the circumstances of his loss of life,” the report continues. The IDF recognized him because the 18th soldier to be killed in two days of heavy preventing and essentially the most senior its forces have misplaced.
YNet Information has described that days earlier than the beginning of the bottom offensive, Lt. Col. Habaka was featured in footage giving motivational phrases to his battalion because it ready to enter battle. “I need to inform all of you that the 53rd Battalion and its tanks, in all their glory and energy, is prepared for any problem,” he said. “We’re making preparations to strike the enemy relentlessly.”
Habaka had really been on the scene of the Hamas assaults of Oct.7 in southern Israel, being among the many first navy officers to reply, as Israeli media describes:
On the day of Hamas’ shock assault, Lt. Col. Habaka rushed from his dwelling in Yanuh-Jat in northern Israel to hitch the preventing. “I drove from the Galilee to a base close to Tze’elim in an effort to get the tank and attain the neighborhood as rapidly as potential to avoid wasting each soul I may,” he recounted. He arrived in Kibbutz Be’eri with two tanks and joined the troopers preventing there.
“I arrived in Be’eri, noticed Col. Barak Hiram, and the very first thing he ordered me to do was to fireplace a tank spherical into the home,” he recounted. “The primary query you ask your self is whether or not there are civilian hostages in the home. We carried out all of the preliminary actions earlier than deciding to fireplace into the home, however as quickly as we fired into the home, we had been capable of transfer from home to accommodate and the hostages. The preventing continued till night, inside the kibbutz’s streets.”
Additionally for the primary time, IDF helicopters have been filmed in motion firing down from above Gaza, and making evasive maneuvers to keep away from floor fireplace…
Right here’s a video of the Helicopter firing into Gaza earlier than the flares. pic.twitter.com/KtkbeRZ31j
— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) November 1, 2023
The Palestinian Ministry of Well being on Thursday issued up to date casualty figures, saying that at least 9,061 individuals have been killed going again over three weeks of the battle, together with 3,760 youngsters and a couple of,326 girls, in response to officers. There are over 30,000 wounded on the Palestinian aspect. The ministry additional cited that simply within the final 24 hours alone, a minimum of 256 individuals have been killed.
Combating has additionally intensified within the West Financial institution, which has witnessed rising clashes involving police and Israeli settlers cracking down on Palestinian protesters. In some areas there are studies of Israeli settlers attacking and setting fireplace to Palestinian-owned companies.
Reviews of settler violence in opposition to Palestinians within the village of Deir Sharaf within the West Financial institution:
عاجل| تغطية صحفية: “مـسـتـوطـنـون يحرقون ممتلكات للفلسطينيين في دير شرف شمال غرب نابلس، ويهاجمون مركبات فلسطينية قرب قرية جيت بين نابلس وقلقيلية”.
فيديو من قرية دير شرف.. pic.twitter.com/yeMSEvfJyc
— شبكة قدس الإخبارية (@qudsn) November 2, 2023
Eyewitnesses have informed regional media: “It is the identical story in practically each village within the south Hebron Hills. Israeli settlers seize livestock, wreck agricultural tools and destroy the olive groves upon which Palestinian farmers rely for his or her livelihood.” The report added, “They arrive armed with M16 machine weapons and beat up villagers with their fists, sticks, iron bars, or the butts of their rifles.”
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