The Israeli military killed a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist in an airstrike in southern Gaza on Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces said on Friday.
The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) reported on a number of attacks its forces made against both the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations in Gaza over the past 24 hours, during which dozens of terrorists were killed.
A Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander arrested in Gaza described to Israeli interrogators how terror operatives were trained in Iran in video footage released by the Israel Defence Forces on Tuesday.
The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) said that two people in Gaza who were killed by its forces and alleged to be journalists were in fact senior-ranking terrorists from Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad
The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) operating together with the Shin Bet (Israel's anti-terror General Security Service) eliminated the head of the operational headquarters of the northern Gaza Strip and a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization Mamdoh Lulu.
Under the terms of the ceasefire agreement, 150 Palestinian prisoners and 50 Israeli hostages -- primarily women and children -- will be released in stages over a four-day period. Israel published a list of 300 Palestinian prisoners of whom 150 will be freed. Israeli terror victims have a 24
The IDF said that over 13,000 shells were fired at Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets, hundreds of terrorists were eliminated, and anti-tank squads were thwarted on their way to fire on Israeli forces in Gaza over the past month by the 454th Brigade.
Israeli soldiers seized heavy-weight rockets and aerial drones from a Palestinian Islamic Jihad outpost in northern Gaza during an overnight operation, the Israel Defense Forces said on Friday morning.
"We have information that Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad use some hospitals in the Gaza Strip, including al-Shifa, and tunnels underneath them to conceal and to support their military operations and to hold hostages," spokesperson John Kirby told reporters during a briefing.
Taking coordinated action along with the United Kingdom against the Hamas entities following their October 7 onslaught, the United States Department of Treasury has imposed a third round of sanctions targeting Hamas-affiliated individuals.
The military added that forces were joined by medical teams and Arabic speakers "who have undergone specified training to prepare for this complex and sensitive environment, with the intent that no harm is caused to the civilians being used by Hamas as human shields."