Israeli fighter jets carried out in a single day airstrikes over 250 Hamas websites within the Gaza Strip
Tel Aviv:
The deputy chief of Hamas’s intelligence bureau, Shadi Barud was killed in a strike within the Gaza Strip at this time, in accordance with the Israel Defence Forces.
The IDF accused Barud of working with Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar to arrange the assaults in southern Israel on October 7.
Prior to this, Barud led battalions within the Khan Younis area and held numerous positions within the terror group’s intelligence directorate.
Taking to social media platform X, the IDF wrote, “Shadi Barud, Deputy Head of Hamas’ Intelligence Directorate has been eliminated by an IDF aerial strike. He took part in the planning of the October 7 massacre and countless other deadly attacks carried out against Israelis.”
“We will continue to strike and eliminate Hamas leaders and operatives responsible for the barbaric attacks,” it added.
According to the Israel Defence Forces, Barud “was responsible for planning numerous terror attacks against Israeli civilians,” The Times of Israel reported.
Notably, the Israeli fighter jets carried out in a single day airstrikes over 250 Hamas websites within the Gaza Strip together with a rocket launch website that was hidden between a mosque and kindergarten, Times of Israel reported on Thursday.
IDF has known as this “another proof” that terror group Hamas makes use of “civilian sites for terror purposes”.
The websites struck by Israel included Hamas infrastructure, command facilities, tunnels, and rocket launchers, in accordance with the IDF. The IDF mentioned that the rocket launchers have been “placed in the heart of civilian areas that fired toward Israeli territory throughout the war.”
Israeli Air Force additionally mentioned in a press release about attacking over 250 terror targets of Hamas within the Gaza Strip.
“Terrorist infrastructure, combat tunnel shafts and launchers in a civilian environment; The Air Force attacked over 250 targets of the terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In the last day, fighter jets of the Air Force attacked more than 250 targets of the terrorist organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip,” Israeli Air Force posted on X (previously Twitter).
Meanwhile, the households of 224 hostages have been notified about their eager being held within the Gaza by Hamas, Times of Israel reported.
IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari mentioned that the army has to date notified the households of 224 hostages that their family members are being held within the Gaza Strip.
He mentioned that the quantity is just not closing because the army investigates new info.
Notably, the quantity doesn’t embrace 4 launched hostages — mom and daughter Judith and Natalie Ra’anan, freed on Friday evening, and aged girls Yocheved Lifshitz and Nurit Cooper launched on Monday evening, Times of Israel reported.
Hamas launched an enormous terror assault on Israel on October 7, which killed over 1400 individuals and left a number of extra injured.
After this, Israel launched a powerful counter-offensive towards Hamas models in Gaza strip.
According to the well being ministry of Hamas, the dying toll in Gaza has crossed 7,000, Times of Israel reported.
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