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The Israeli army said Friday night that it was expanding its ground operations in the Gaza Strip amid intensifying airstrikes in its most significant maneuver yet ahead of an invasion intended to end 16 years of Hamas rule, while the strip came under a nearly complete communications blackout. Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the chief Israel Defense Forces spokesman, again urged Palestinians to leave the northern Gaza Strip, including Gaza City, to head south, amid growing signs that the military was poised to launch an expansive ground operation.

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☆ Israeli military says Hamas hiding tunnels, operations centres in Gaza hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Mohammed Salem/File photo Acquire Licensing RightsJERUSALEM, Oct 27 (Reuters) - The Israeli military accused the Islamist movement Hamas on Friday of using the main hospital in Gaza as a shield for its tunnels and operational centres. "Hamas has turned hospitals into command and control centres and hideouts for Hamas terrorists and commanders," Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, Israel's chief military spokesman, told a news conference. "Hamas terrorists operate inside and under Shifa hospital and other hospitals in Gaza," he said. The Israeli military has regularly accused Hamas of basing leadership and operational centres in residential areas or around schools or hospitals. "There is fuel in hospitals in Gaza and Hamas is using it for its terrorist infrastructure," Hagari said.

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☆ Israel military announces ground operation expansion in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Kevin Flower | Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is “expanding ground operations” in the Gaza Strip, IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari announced Friday, as intense airstrikes rocked the besieged enclave and with communications links reportedly severed. Gaza residents told CNN the strikes were the most intense they have experienced since Israel began to retaliate against Hamas’ October 7 terror attack nearly three weeks ago. A huge wall of heavy smoke that lasted 15 to 30 minutes also blew from Gaza into southern Israel earlier Friday evening. “We have, of course, certainly seen Israel undertake varied operations on the ground in the last couple of days,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Friday. He also declined to say if the Biden administration has confidence that Israel has fully considered the ramifications of a ground incursion.

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Israel’s military is intensifying its ground operations in Gaza in another step that likely moves the country closer to its widely expected, larger ground invasion of the Hama-ruled territory. An Israeli military spokesman on Friday said ground forces were “expanding” their activities in Gaza, distinguishing the uptick from a series of ground raids that Israeli forces have conducted. It’s been more than two weeks since Israel’s military directed the evacuation of northern Gaza within 24 hours. "Simultaneously, we are preparing for a ground invasion. The White House on Thursday declined to comment on what Israel’s military is doing on the ground in Gaza.

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☆ Hamas Vows 'Full Force' After Israel Steps up Gaza Ground Operations
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +7 min

By James MackenzieJERUSALEM (Reuters) - Hamas said on Saturday its militants in Gaza were ready to confront Israeli attacks with "full force" after Israel's military widened its air and ground attacks on the Palestinian enclave. The Palestinian militant group that rules Gaza said earlier its fighters were clashing with Israeli troops in areas near the border with Israel after Israel reported intensified attacks in Gaza. Israeli ground forces had massed outside Gaza, where Israel has been conducting an intense campaign of aerial bombardment since a deadly Oct. 7 attack by hundreds of Hamas gunmen on Israeli communities near the strip. Israel's military accused Hamas on Friday of using the hospital as a shield for its tunnels and operational centres, an allegation the group denied. Palestinians said they received renewed Israeli military warnings to move from Gaza's north to the south to avoid the deadliest theatre of the war.

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Egypt's military spokesman Colonel Gharib Abdel-Hafez said two drones were fired from the southern Red Sea aiming north. Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said that combat helicopters had been scrambled when "an aerial threat was spotted in the Red Sea region". EGYPT EXPOSED"The air force and air defence force are intensifying efforts to secure Egyptian airspace on all strategic directions," the Egyptian military said. The U.S. said last week a Navy warship in the Red Sea intercepted projectiles launched by the Houthi, potentially toward Israel. Bordering both Gaza and Israel, Egypt is exposed to the conflict that blew up after Hamas' Oct. 7 assault on Israel and the subsequent bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

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☆ Powerful photos show an Israeli light installation projecting 224 beams, one for each hostage held by Hamas
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-27 | by ( Talia Lakritz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Hamas took at least 224 people captive during the October 7 terrorist attacks, according to the IDF. A new installation in Jerusalem called "Lights of Hope" features a beam of light for every hostage. Powerful photos show family members of hostages visiting the display. AdvertisementAdvertisementAs desperate family members await news, a new light installation in Jerusalem's Pais Arena Square pays tribute to the 224 hostages taken by Hamas militants during the October 7 terrorist attacks in Israel. Photos from the opening event on Thursday night show family members of those held captive taking in the powerful display.

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☆ Hamas vows 'full force'; Israel says troops still on the ground in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( James Mackenzie | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Israel said on Saturday morning its troops, sent in on Friday night, were still on the ground. The country had earlier made only brief sorties into Gaza during three weeks of bombardment to root out Hamas militants who killed more than 1,000 Israelis on Oct. 7. "The forces are still in the field and continuing the war" Israel," Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told a news briefing on Saturday morning. Gaza was under an almost complete blackout, with internet and phone services cut for more than 12 hours by Saturday morning. "In addition to the attacks carried out in the last few days, ground forces are expanding their operations tonight," he said.

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RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops and tanks briefly raided northern Gaza overnight, the military said Thursday, engaging with Hamas fighters and targeting anti-tank weapons in order to “prepare the battlefield” before an expected ground invasion. Israel has imposed a suffocating siege on Gaza since Hamas’ bloody rampage and hostage-taking across southern Israel ignited the war. The Israeli military says it only strikes militant targets and accuses Hamas of operating among civilians in an attempt to protect its fighters. That is more than three times the number of Palestinians killed in the six-week-long Gaza war in 2014. On Wednesday, the wife, son, daughter and grandson of Wael Dahdouh, a veteran Al-Jazeera correspondent in Gaza, were killed in an Israeli strike.

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☆ Gaza: EU stops short of calling for ceasefire ahead of UN vote as crisis escalates
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Andrew Raine | Helen Regan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +34 min

Shadi Tabatibi/Reuters Relatives mourn for a family killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on October 21. Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images Europe/Getty Images Palestinians inspect a destroyed area following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on October 21. Ronen Zvulun/Reuters A woman mourns over a dead man at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza City on October 18. Yousef Masoud/The New York Times A morgue worker arranges body bags at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on October 12. Ramez Mahmoud/AP A plume of smoke rises in the sky over Gaza City during an Israeli airstrike on October 9.

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U.S. President Joe Biden, in remarks looking beyond the war that began with an Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Palestinian Hamas militants, said on Wednesday that the future should include Israeli and Palestinian states side by side. Israel has resisted both, arguing that Hamas would only take advantage and create new threats to Gaza civilians. "We will keep striking in Gaza in order to achieve the goals of the war," Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised statement that Israel was "preparing for a ground invasion. International pressure is growing to delay any invasion of Gaza, not least because of hostages.

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Palestinians inspect the remains of a mosque destroyed in Israeli strikes, as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in the northern Gaza Strip October 22, 2023. Palestinian group Hamas said on Sunday its fighters had engaged an armoured force infiltrating a southern area of Gaza and destroyed some Israeli military equipment before returning to base. These raids are raids that kill squads of terrorists who are preparing for the next stage in the war," he said, describing incursions that went "deep" into Gaza. Stoking expectations of a full-scale ground offensive by Israeli forces massed around Gaza, he said the military's operational readiness was improving and being enhanced "all the time". INCONCLUSIVE WARSSince cross-border attacks by Hamas on Israeli communities on Oct. 7 killed 1,400 people, Israel has amassed tanks and troops near the fenced border around Gaza for a planned ground invasion.

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Image Palestinians wounded in Ahli Arab Hospital blast were later treated at another hospital in Gaza on Tuesday. Israel said the strike on the hospital parking lot was caused by a misfired Palestinian rocket, citing intelligence intercepts and videos of the sky above Gaza at the time. Al Jazeera, a Qatari news channel, concluded that a Palestinian rocket had been intercepted by an Israeli air defense missile. Scores of public institutions in northern Gaza, including hospitals like the Ahli Arab hospital, were warned by Israel to evacuate. American intelligence agencies have assessed that the blast killed 100 to 300 people.

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The bombs hit buildings in Rafah, Khan Younis, central Gaza and Gaza City, including homes, the Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza said. Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images Europe/Getty Images Palestinians inspect a destroyed area following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on October 21. Ronen Zvulun/Reuters A woman mourns over a dead man at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza City on October 18. Yousef Masoud/The New York Times A morgue worker arranges body bags at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on October 12. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters Palestinian citizens inspect damage to their homes caused by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 8.

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☆ Israel says it has confirmed 212 people held hostage in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: 1 min

Israeli tanks are positioned near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, October 22, 2023. REUTERS/Violeta Santos Moura Acquire Licensing RightsJERUSALEM, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Israel has confirmed that 212 people are being held hostage in Gaza, the military spokesperson said on Sunday, adding that Israeli strikes overnight killed dozens of Palestinian fighters, including the deputy chief of Hamas rocket forces. On the northern front, Israel has been attacking fighters trying to fire missiles in across the Lebanese border and struck a site in Lebanon from where a missile was fired at an Israeli aircraft, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a briefing. Writing by Dan WilliamsOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ In Northern Gaza, the Price of a Ride South Is Out of Reach for Many
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( Raja Abdulrahim | More About Raja Abdulrahim | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

The Israeli military said Saturday night that it would intensify its already punishing bombardment of the besieged enclave ahead of an expected ground invasion. Drivers were now charging between $200 and $300 to take a family south, she said. Even as Israel has told Gazans to head south, airstrikes have continued to hit that part of the enclave. “I did not go to the south mainly because I know no one there; where am I to go?” said Yasser Shaban, 57, a civil servant in Gaza City. The cousin returned to Gaza City with his surviving family members — a wounded son and his sister — to be treated at Al Shifa Hospital.

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Palestinian media reported at least 11 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, and that Israel was striking the southern city of Rafah. We will continue to attack in the area of Gaza City and increase attacks," Hagari told Israeli reporters on Saturday. Israel started its "total siege" of Gaza after an Oct. 7 cross-border attack on southern Israel by militants of the Islamist movement Hamas killed 1,400 people, mainly civilians, in a shock rampage that has traumatised Israel. [1/5]An Israeli soldier secures an area, following a deadly infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Kissufim in southern Israel October 21, 2023. At least 84 Palestinians in the West Bank have been killed in clashes with Israeli forces since the Hamas rampage, Palestinian officials say.

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☆ Bombing Campaign Takes Toll on Gaza City
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said the military continues to urge civilians in the Gaza Strip's northern part, where Israel is increasing its bombing campaign ahead of an expected ground assault, to move south.

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An aerial view of residential buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Zahra City, Gaza, on October 21. Ronen Zvulun/Reuters A woman mourns over a dead man at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Gaza City on October 18. Yousef Masoud/The New York Times A morgue worker arranges body bags at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on October 12. Ramez Mahmoud/AP A plume of smoke rises in the sky over Gaza City during an Israeli airstrike on October 9. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters Palestinian citizens inspect damage to their homes caused by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City on October 8.

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And the risk of triggering a broader war with Hamas' allies in Lebanon and Syria might also give them pause. More than 1,400 people in Israel have been killed in the war — mostly civilians slain during the initial Hamas attack. Israeli forces killed at least five people early Sunday in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. Sunday’s fatalities brought the death toll in the West Bank to 90 Palestinians since the war broke out on Oct. 7, according to the Health Ministry. In Gaza, the Israeli military said the humanitarian situation was “under control” as aid workers called for the opening of a round-the-clock aid corridor.

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☆ Israel Extends Airstrikes Ahead of Next Phase of War
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-22 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israel stepped up its bombing of targets on three fronts as Palestinian casualties mounted and the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip deepened. As well as the strike on the West Bank mosque compound, military spokesman Daniel Hagari said Israel is increasing its bombing campaign in Gaza ahead of an expected ground assault, reiterating calls for civilians in the north of the territory to move south. Israel also struck a target in southern Lebanon, where it says militants were attempting to launch antitank missiles at the Israeli side of the border.

Persons: Israel, Daniel Hagari Organizations: West Locations: Gaza, West Bank, Israel, Lebanon

☆ Israel to evacuate residents of town near Lebanon border after flare up
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

The Israel-Lebanon border has seen constant, but so far limited, clashes since a war in Gaza erupted two weeks ago. Persistent violence along the Israel-Lebanon border has raised fears that fighting between Israel and Hamas Islamists in Gaza could spiral into a broader, regional conflict. Evacuees from Kiryat Shmona will be put up in state-subsidised guesthouses, Israel's Defense Ministry said, joining tens of thousands of Israelis who have already left their homes near the southern Gaza border. The Committee to Protect Journalists has said it has documented more than 20 journalists killed since the start of the Israel-Gaza conflict and said it was investigating reports of other journalists killed, injured and reported missing. The latest incident on the Israel-Lebanon border came nearly a week after Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah was killed in southern Lebanon.

Persons: Israel, Daniel Hagari, Issam Abdallah, Ari Rabinovitch, Crispian Balmer, Edmund Blair Organizations: Lebanese, Israel Defense Forces, Israel's Defense Ministry, Protect Journalists, Reuters, Thomson Locations: JERUSALEM, BEIRUT, Kiryat Shmona, Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, Galilee, Lebanon's Iran, Beirut

☆ On Israel-Lebanon Border, Families Flee on Both Sides as as Violence Flares
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Oct. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +3 min

Israel on Friday ordered the evacuation of more than 20,000 residents from Kiryat Shmona, one of the biggest towns on its northern border following a heavy cross-border exchange of fire in the area the day before. Survival was uppermost in the minds of Lebanese civilians from the Lebanese village of Dhayra, west of Israel's Kiryat Shmona. Nissim Tsabaria, an elderly Israeli who walks with a stick, waved goodbye to neighbours as he clambered into his car. Local authorities on both sides of the border are hastily seeking accommodation for the growing numbers of refugees, who leave their homes in cars crammed with suitcases. Israel is putting its swelling ranks of evacuees in guest houses and hotels if they don't have families to stay with.

Persons: Avi Ohayon, Sebastian Rocandio KIRYAT, Edo Goldstein, Goldstein, Dhayra, Zahira Omar Swaid, Israel, Daniel Hagari, Nissim Tsabaria, Mortada Mhanna, Crispian Balmer, Edmund Blair Organizations: Reuters, Hezbollah, Hamas, Friday, Locals, Israel Defense Forces, Local Locations: Sebastian Rocandio KIRYAT SHMONA, Israel, TYRE, Lebanon, Lebanese, Gaza, Israel's, Kiryat Shmona, Dhayra, Israel's Kiryat Shmona, Tyre, Iran

[1/3] A man assists his elderly father to get into a car so that he can be evacuated from Kiryat Shmona, near Israel's border with Lebanon, in northern Israel, October 20, 2023. Israel on Friday ordered the evacuation of more than 20,000 residents from Kiryat Shmona, one of the biggest towns on its northern border following a heavy cross-border exchange of fire in the area the day before. Survival was uppermost in the minds of Lebanese civilians from the Lebanese village of Dhayra, west of Israel's Kiryat Shmona. Daniel Hagari, spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), said the mass evacuations along Israel's northern border, allowed the army "to expand its operational freedom to act against the Hezbollah terrorist organisation." Israel is putting its swelling ranks of evacuees in guest houses and hotels if they don't have families to stay with.

Persons: Lisi Niesner, KIRYAT, Edo Goldstein, Goldstein, Dhayra, Zahira Omar Swaid, Israel, Daniel Hagari, Nissim Tsabaria, Mortada Mhanna, Crispian Balmer, Edmund Blair Organizations: REUTERS, Hezbollah, Hamas, Friday, Reuters, Locals, Israel Defense Forces, Local, Thomson Locations: Kiryat Shmona, Israel's, Lebanon, Israel, KIRYAT SHMONA, TYRE, Lebanese, Gaza, Dhayra, Israel's Kiryat Shmona, Tyre, Iran

☆ Photo released of 2 Americans — a mother and daughter — freed after being held hostage by Hamas for nearly 2 weeks
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Sarah Gray | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The Israeli government released the first photo of a mother and daughter freed Friday after Hamas held them hostage. Judith and Natalie Raanan, from suburban Chicago, were in Israel to celebrate the recent Jewish holidays. The first photo of Judith and Natalie Raanan — the mother and teenage daughter freed Friday after being held hostage by Hamas — was released by the Israeli government. WHEN DID HE SAY THISJudith and Natalie Raanan, from Evanston, Illinois, were in Israel to celebrate the recent Jewish holidays. Although Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called areas in the south "safe zones" earlier this week, Israeli military spokesman Nir Dinar said Friday: "There are no safe zones."

Persons: Judith, Natalie Raanan, —, Natalie Raanan —, Hamas —, Gal Hirsch, Benjamin Netanyahu's, JB Pritzker, Joe Biden, Daniel Hagari, Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Nir Organizations: Service, Hamas, Illinois Gov, Health Ministry, Israel Locations: Chicago, Israel, Evanston , Illinois, Gaza, Egypt, Lebanon, Lebanese, Qatar, Rafah

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