As the Israeli military continues its ground operations in the Gaza Strip, the White House presidential adviser for security policy visited Israel and met with Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant. Defense Minister Gallant said it would take at least a few months to destroy Hamas.
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Military operations across the Gaza Strip, fierce fighting, severe shortages of supplies
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"Destroying Hamas will not be easy, it will take more than a few months," Israeli defense minister said
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Israeli military attack kills 1,8787
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Hamas Political Executive: 'Tunnels Can Be Dealt With Seawater'
"Destruction by pouring seawater" Conducted multiple times since 2015
Israeli Army to Dispose of Soldiers Over Video in Mosque
Reports of "Egypt urges cessation of hostilities at Israel's request"
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Military operations across the Gaza Strip, fierce fighting, severe shortages of supplies
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"Destroying Hamas will not be easy, it will take more than a few months," Israeli defense minister said
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Israeli military attack kills 1,8787
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Hamas Political Executive: 'Tunnels Can Be Dealt With Seawater'
"Destruction by pouring seawater" Conducted multiple times since 2015
Israeli Army to Dispose of Soldiers Over Video in Mosque
Reports of "Egypt urges cessation of hostilities at Israel's request"
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Military operations across the Gaza Strip, fierce fighting, severe shortages of supplies
The Israeli military continues its military operations across the Gaza Strip in an effort to destroy the Islamist group Hamas.
Fierce fighting is taking place there, and the Israeli army announced on the 14th that eight soldiers were seriously injured in the south and other areas.
Israeli media have also reported that the Israeli military is distributing leaflets to residents of the Gaza Strip offering bounties if they provide information about the whereabouts of Hamas' top Gaza leader Sinwar and other senior officials.
On the other hand, a video taken by the Associated Press in Rafah in the south of the country on the 8th shows children chasing trucks loaded with relief supplies and many residents flocking to relief supplies, indicating a serious shortage of supplies.
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"Destroying Hamas will not be easy, it will take more than a few months," Israeli defense minister said
Sullivan, the White House White House national security adviser, met with Defense Minister Gallant in Israel on the 14th.
At the beginning of the meeting, Defense Minister Gallant said, "The destruction of Hamas will not be easy, it will take a long time, it will take more than a few months, but we will win," and expressed the prospect that the military operation will be long-lasting.
Sullivan also attended a cabinet meeting of Israel's wartime cabinet and held talks with Prime Minister Netanyahu and others on the release of the hostages, and called for more aid to be delivered to the Gaza Strip and for the protection of civilians.
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Israeli military attack kills 1,8787
Footage taken on the 14th in Rafah, near the border with Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip, shows smoke rising from various parts of the city and buildings being severely damaged.
You can also see people rescuing people stranded in the rubble and fighting fires.
One resident said, "The Israeli army targeted homes with evacuees and the elderly, mostly women and children."
Health officials in the Gaza Strip said on Tuesday that 1,14 people have been killed so far in attacks by Israeli forces.
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Hamas Political Executive: 'Tunnels Can Be Dealt With Seawater'
A senior official of the political wing of the Islamic organization Hamas met in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on the 14th, and claimed that 'the enemy admits that more than 5000,<> soldiers were injured in the ground invasion, but hides the real death toll.'
"The transition of governance in the Gaza Strip is a matter for the Palestinians to think about, and it is not acceptable for anyone to intervene," he said. He reiterated his condemnation of Israel and the United States, which have been exchanging views over the governance of the Gaza Strip after the end of the fighting.
In addition, regarding the fact that the Israeli army is reportedly pouring water into an underground tunnel in the Gaza Strip, he said, "We can deal with Israel's threat to pour seawater into the tunnel.
"Destruction by pouring seawater" Conducted multiple times since 2015
Neighboring Egypt has taken measures to destroy underground tunnels built in the Gaza Strip by pouring seawater into them multiple times since 2015.
At that time, while the Gaza Strip was under an economic blockade, thousands of underground tunnels were built in the border area with Egypt, and so-called smuggling was carried out illegally from the Egyptian side.
Due to Egypt's demolition, seawater poured into a tunnel overflowed to the surface of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, causing a series of damages, such as muddy ground and flooding houses.
The Israeli cabinet at the time made it clear that Egypt carried out this destruction measure at the request of Israel.
Israeli Army to Dispose of Soldiers Over Video in Mosque
A video showing Israeli soldiers chanting the words of Jewish prayer inside an Islamic mosque has gone viral on social media.
In the video, Israeli soldiers use loudspeakers to chant Jewish prayers and sing songs celebrating Jewish festivals in a mosque where Muslims pray in Jenin, Palestinian Autonomous Region in the West Bank.
In Jenin, the Israeli army often conducts "counter-terrorism" operations to mop up Palestinian resistance.
The Israeli military has announced that these soldiers will be immediately removed from duty and will be disposed of in the future.
In response, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned in a statement that it "defiled the sanctity of the mosque and ridiculed its moral values, and was unprecedented and provocative."
Recently, videos that seem to have been taken by Israeli soldiers during the operation have spread on SNS, and there have been a series of cases where they have been criticized.
Haaretz, a leading Israeli media outlet, reports that there is an account that appears to be posting videos from the Gaza Strip showing Israeli soldiers killing Hamas fighters and repeatedly killing Hamas fighters and repeatedly killing their bodies in military vehicles.
Reports of "Egypt urges cessation of hostilities at Israel's request"
On the 14th, Qatari media outlets in the Middle East reported that Egypt is working for a humanitarian cessation of hostilities at the request of Israel, citing Egyptian government officials.
The article calls on Israel to broker new negotiations with Hamas, with Hamas freeing the hostages
it is holding and Israel releasing Palestinians in prison,
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it had previously agreed to a cessation of hostilities. In the meantime, both sides have said they will suspend hostilities.
On the other hand, the article said that Hamas officials denied the contents of the article, saying that they would not negotiate the release of the hostages until a ceasefire was achieved, in response to this media interview.