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According to Israel, the airstrike in Khan Yunis focused high-ranking Hamas commanders. According to kin of the Israeli hostages, Hamas is mistreating the kidnapped individuals. The developments within the stay weblog.

The Israeli navy's air strike in Khan Yunis focused high-ranking commanders of the terrorist group Hamas. This was acknowledged by the armed forces. The fighters have been immediately concerned within the terrorist assaults on October 7. They included the heads of the Hamas air unit and the statement and focusing on division. Their command heart was positioned in a chosen humanitarian space within the metropolis of Khan Yunis, from the place they deliberate additional terrorist actions.

The navy additionally contradicted Hamas's figures on the variety of casualties. Hamas had spoken of round 40 useless. The casualty figures didn’t match the IDF's info, the precise ammunition and the accuracy of the assault, it stated.

According to info from their kin, the hostages held by the Islamist Hamas are being held in horrific situations. The discussion board of the households of the kidnapped stated that the outcomes of an preliminary investigation into the destiny of six hostages just lately killed by the military have been extraordinarily worrying.

The investigation revealed that “the murdered hostages were (previously) held in narrow underground tunnels with little air,” it stated. They suffered from excessive malnutrition and weight reduction and confirmed “clear signs of long-term physical neglect.” The outcomes of the investigation have been introduced to their kin. The military didn’t formally touch upon the matter.

The hostages have been held in a tunnel about 80 centimeters extensive through which they might neither stand nor transfer freely, in accordance with the assertion from the kin' discussion board. They additionally had no entry to showers or bogs. The abductees have been “deprived of the most basic human needs.” “Some of them had untreated injuries from the time of their abduction, and signs of being tied up were found on one of them.”

Israeli TV station Channel 13 reported that forensic examinations had proven that the six hostages “wanted to defend themselves and protect each other” earlier than they have been killed. They had fought with their captors earlier than they have been shot. “The evidence shows that they fought for their survival right up to the end before all six were brutally murdered,” it stated.

At least 40 individuals have been killed in an Israeli airstrike on a tent camp in Khan Yunis within the southern Gaza Strip, in accordance with medics and Hamas media. The Israeli military stated it had focused a Hamas command heart. It had attacked “leading Hamas terrorists operating in a command and control center within the humanitarian zone in Khan Yunis.”

Residents and medics report that the tent camp within the Al-Mawasi space, which is designated as a humanitarian zone, was hit by a minimum of 4 rockets. The camp is overcrowded with displaced Palestinians. Civil Defense reviews that a minimum of 20 tents caught fireplace and the rockets left craters as much as 9 meters deep.

A United Nations (UN) convoy has been launched by Israel within the Gaza Strip after greater than eight hours. “The convoy was stopped shortly after the Wadi Gaza checkpoint under threat of arrest of the UN personnel,” wrote Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), on the quick message service X. Bulldozers brought about appreciable injury to the UN's armored automobiles.

The Israeli navy stated the convoy was stopped as a result of that they had acquired info that there have been “Palestinian suspects” on board who they needed to interrogate. Earlier reviews that the convoy was carrying polio vaccines for kids in Gaza have been denied by the Israeli navy. The convoy's function was as a substitute to change UN personnel. Lazzarini denied Israel's account. The convoy was on its option to begin the vaccination marketing campaign in Gaza City and the north of the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli navy has stopped a UN convoy within the north of the Gaza Strip due to “suspicious” individuals on board. The UN human rights commissioner Türk is urging an early finish to the conflict in Gaza.