Israel kills two important people responsible for the massive Hamas attack on the country

The Israeli Army continued bombing Gaza on Friday night and early Saturday morning, where it attacked a post with dozens of militiamen from the elite corps of the armed wing of the Islamist group Hamas and the operations headquarters for its aerial activity, where it killed its top commander, Merad Abu Merad, considered one of those responsible for directing last Saturday's infiltration.

“Last night, Israeli warplanes carried out large-scale attacks throughout the Strip,” including on a point “where there were dozens of Hamas terrorist targets and terrorist operatives from Nukhba,” an elite unit of the al-Qasam Brigades. which was “one of the main forces” that a week ago “led the ground infiltration” into Israel, a military spokesman said.

According to him, “dozens of terrorists” died in the attack, to which was added another air offensive early this Saturday against the operations headquarters from where Hamas managed the group's air actions, which these days of offensive were seen in the use and attacks with drones or even in the movement of militiamen who managed to enter Israel with paragliders.

In the attacks against this position, “Israeli fighter jets killed Merad Abu Merad, who was the head of the Hamas air apparatus in Gaza, and who was largely responsible for directing the terrorists during last Saturday's massacre.” , when Hamas launched a land, sea and air offensive against Israel that caught the country off guard and sparked war.

The nighttime bombings occurred while alarms continued to be raised about the launch of rockets from the Strip towards neighboring Israeli communities, while Israel is accumulating troops on the perimeter of the enclave and there is speculation that a ground incursion operation could be imminent.

Israeli troops began this Friday to make localized raids to find the at least 130 hostages inside Gaza, and according to the Israeli press, they would have found bodies of captives. Some 1,400 people have been killed in Israel and more than 3,400 are injured.

A key commander in the attack also falls

The Israeli Army also reported this Saturday the death of Ali Qadi, a commander of the Hamas raid force known as Nujba and considered the main executor of last Saturday's ground attack against southern Israel that triggered the current conflict. .

The Israeli Air Force has specified on its X account, formerly Twitter, that the attack was carried out by a drone based on intelligence data provided by the Shin Bet.

The Israeli military adds that Ali Gedi was detained in 2005 after the kidnapping and murder of Israeli civilians and was released as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange in 2011.

Eight days of war with thousands of dead

All of this occurs while the eighth day of armed conflict begins, which has already resulted in more than 1,900 deaths in Gaza and 7,700 injured by Israel's air attacks, which have left an unprecedented landscape of devastation, with a large number of residential buildings. and civil infrastructure also destroyed.

This Friday, the Army ordered the evacuation of civilians from the north of the Strip and Gaza City, which are 1.1 million people, half the population of the enclave, while the Strip deepens into a rampant humanitarian crisis due to the siege. total of Israel that prevents the entry of food, water, electricity and other products.

This left hospitals with extreme shortages of medicines and medical supplies, while the wounded continue to arrive.

This Friday's bombings claimed the lives of 70 people in an attack against three convoys with civilians evacuating to the south. Most of the dead were women and children, Hamas denounced.

This Saturday, the Israeli Army assured that it tries to “minimize damage to non-combatants” during its bombings, and alleged that “terrorists hide under tunnels located under houses in Gaza City and civilian buildings.”

He also denounced that Hamas tried to prevent the movement of civilians to the south.