Israel said its forces freed a soldier from Hamas captivity, one of 239 hostages Israel says were captured on Oct. 7 by Hamas gunmen from Gaza who rampaged through southern Israeli communities, killing over 1,400 people.
It identified her as Ori Megidish and said she had since undergone medical checks and is "doing well," the military said. It gave no details on the circumstances of her release.
Israel's military said it had struck more than 600 militant targets over the past few days as it expanded ground operations in the territory, where Palestinian civilians are in dire need of fuel, food and clean water as the war enters its fourth week.
Palestinian medical authorities in Gaza said on Monday that 8,306 people - including 3,457 minors - had been killed in Israel's three-week-old air and ground onslaught.
Significantly fewer humanitarian aid trucks have reached the besieged enclave than are required, say U.N. Officials, and civil order has broken down with people storming U.N. warehouses in search of food.
That has put four U.N. aid distribution centres and a storage facility out of action, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said on Monday.
"It's a disaster on top of a disaster. Health needs are soaring and our ability to meet those needs is rapidly declining," World Health Organization regional emergencies chief Rick Brennan told Reuters, reiterating international calls for a ceasefire to enable a larger humanitarian operation.
The White House said it was working to get more aid trucks into Gaza.
Comment: While simultaneously planning to send Israel "new and replacement ammunition, precision-guided bombs and Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits, which convert standard munitions into more accurate ones, according to the NYT."
Many Palestinians stay put despite warnings
Israel renewed warnings for civilians to move from the north of Gaza to the south as it began an advance late on Friday to pursue Hamas militants it says are hiding in a labyrinth of tunnels under Gaza City.
Many Palestinians have stayed put, some fearing they might become homeless as in previous generations and some alarmed by Israeli aerial strikes further south.
Comment: As analyst Jackson Hinkle suggested, Israel does not want a Palestinian state, the true purpose of its operation in Gaza is not to defeat Hamas, but rather to force Palestinians out and take over the enclave "once and for all."
Fadi, who lives in the Jabalia refugee camp on Gaza City's northern outskirts and declined to give his last name, said the area was now in mortal danger from Israel's ground offensive with tanks rumbling on its fringes. He vowed not to flee.
"No one in the entire neighbourhood has left. We are staying," he told Reuters by phone. "Whether tanks or planes, there will not be another displacement (of Palestinians). That is our decision even if that will mean our martyrdom (death)."
Islamist militants said they had repelled an attempted thrust by Israeli tanks into Gaza City from the east and were fighting them along the border with Israel in north Gaza.
"Our duty today is fight and fight," the Islamic Jihad militant group, fighting alongside Gaza's ruling Hamas, said in a statement, adding that now was not the time for a ceasefire.
The Israeli military said it had killed four prominent Hamas operatives. "IDF troops killed dozens of terrorists who barricaded themselves in buildings and tunnels, and attempted to attack the troops," it said in an update, using the abbreviation for the Israel Defense Forces.
In a statement, Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that the army would continue to expand the ground operation.
"Additional infantry, armor and combat engineering forces are entering Gaza for the continued coordinated operations by land, air and sea at full force," Hagari said.
Neither side commented on the other's reports.
Israeli forces reach main north-south Gaza road
On Monday, residents said Israeli forces carried out dozens of airstrikes on Gaza City's eastern side, with some reporting the roar of tanks rolling in amid exchanges of fire.
Witnesses said Israeli tanks also reached Gaza's main coastal north-south Salahudeen road during the day, in an apparent bid to intensify the siege in the north by cutting Gaza City off from the enclave's southern half.
Later, residents and the Hamas-run government's media office said the tanks had pulled back towards the fortified boundary fence around Gaza. Hamas' armed wing said intense mortar fire had pushed them back, and fellow militants Islamic Jihad said its fighters were battling Israeli forces in the area.
Reuters could not immediately verify the reports. The Israeli military said it would not give details on the positions of its forces.
Palestinian health officials reported airstrike impacts near three large hospitals in Gaza City on Monday. The U.N. humanitarian office OCHA said 117,000 civilians were sheltering alongside patients and doctors in hospitals in the north.
Israel has accused Hamas of placing command centres and weaponry near hospitals, which the group denies.
"Where should we go? It is all one death," said Hatem Sultan, sheltering near Gaza City's al-Shifa Hospital, the enclave's biggest medical centre.
OCHA said rescuers were struggling to reach people. "As of 29 October about 1,800 people, including at least 940 children, have been reported missing and may be trapped or dead under the rubble, awaiting rescue or recovery," it said.
OCHA also said Palestinian armed groups were continuing to launch rockets into Israel indiscriminately, with no fatalities reported.
Netanyahu Calls Hamas video 'psychological propaganda'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned as "cruel psychological propaganda" a video released by Hamas showing three female hostages with one accusing him of failing to protect and secure the release of all the captives.
Netanyahu said Israel's ground campaign creates possibilities for rescuing the hostages.
"Hamas will not do it unless they are under pressure," he told reporters. "We obviously greeted one hostage with open arms after yesterday's successful action ... but we're committed to getting all the hostages back home. We think that this method stands a chance."
Hamas has released four hostages and said 50 have been killed in retaliatory Israeli strikes.
Hamas and Islamic Jihad said they were also fighting Israeli forces in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Jenin. The Palestinian health ministry said four people were killed there on Monday. Israel said an airstrike killed several fighters.
The conflict has led to demonstrations worldwide in support of the Palestinians, and antisemitic and Islamophobic harassment.
Russian authorities said they had taken over an airport in the predominantly Muslim Dagestan region and arrested 60 people after hundreds of anti-Israel protesters stormed the facility in search of Jewish passengers on a plane from Israel.
Reporting by Nidal al-Mughrabi, Yomna Ehab, Ali Swafta, James Mackenzie, Henriette Chacar, Dan Williams, Emma Farge and Jonathan Landay; Writing by Philippa Fletcher and Mark Heinrich; Editing by Angus MacSwan, Hugh Lawson and Howard Goller
Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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Leaving all White countries to take the heat from Zionism (which all Jews can now come away from....obviously in solidarity for the poor Palestinians that will be paid off to allow the narrative to be managed properly in all the "Jewish" media platforms "world wide").
Jews will have eyes for Saudi and Jordan and money will keep them quiet, which is does now.
Because she wasn’t rescued, she was released and they found her walking by herself, but they’re so desperate for positive publicity they’re painting it as a “rescue.”
When and if Israel survives this, we’ll soon have Holohoax 2.0, i.e. the 1,400 people will become 140,000 and the number will be splashed all over the MSM.
Also to suggest as such is deserving of charachter adhominems.
It is simply a one directional comm. Everything you see or watch has to be assumed fake/staged until it is proven as true.
What ever is being projected by the actors guild media it is not up for debate or framed to be questioned, like EVER, so why not use their standard, use their own game against them, which is.... guilty LIARS until proven innocent (I think that is actually a safer position than trying to prove them false anyway), assume it is false until it checks out, which time and hindsight always determines.....much like how conspiracy theories are proven correct eventually(WMD, 911 COVID ETC) if we all agree media IS for misinforming....simply accept it, instead of appealing to giving them the benefit of doubt, which media has never reciprocated with people who hold high regard for the truth.
We know they lie, if someone lies how can you or anyone not believe they will again? UNLESS YOU SUFFER FROM AMNESIA...SURE TAKE YOUR MEDS LOL.
Or
why keep forgiving a liar for all the lies you know they tell, the same media that brings you your "Gaza" war facts peddled the vaccine woo, of have you got amnesia?
The media are in the business of lying (disinfo or misinfo, it doesn't really matter one way or another). If you know they lied to you even once, why should you be discouraged by idiots who cannot answer for their lies and project all manner of nonsense to create an illusion about your thinking, just observe their silly adhoms and remember it is easier to answer for the truth than a lie. RESULT.
If anyone is a crisis actor, it's Miles Mathis.
If indeed Miles Mathis is an actual a person and not an actual entire department of U.S. Govt-funded bullshit artists and signal jammers.
John Lennon faked his own death.
Pah.
Sharon Tate is alive and well and living in Brazil or wherever.
Double Pah.
The war in Israel is fake.
Treble Pah.
Anyone susceptible to such utter tosh is badly in need of an online chaperone.
I say let the clowns/fools show us who they are. Simple.
The truth is, clowns and fools will always try to discredit the content provider who they cannot answer for without any debate about the substance of the claims. This is a great place to observe who says what and focus on why and why some posters seem to follow other posters all around the comments section, with nothing to add but trying to build doubts for other people around there charachter, the main ones are trying to make someone who has said something that is close to the truth look stupid, infact the clown will never miss an oportunity to do so, but will never answer beyond the "call to emotion".
Once is too much, pal.
I sympathise with you though, being on the side who have to make clownish comments to somehow distract from the fact people are seeing the media fakery for what it is.
You think all the media has to do is show a photo and add your premise it must be trusted is a joke really, your fakery is losing it's effect, its sloppy and over confident and is getting caught in its own lies daily. Your left behind focusing on the commenter and showing people how far out your clown shoes are. Not my fault you are hoodwinked and fooled by media lies and fakery
Use a Miles Mathis quote to prop up a dodgy thesis about crisis actors and then turn around and say "But I only did it once".
It's suggests a certain corrupt way of thinking.
You already look stupid.
And the more you double down on your stupid, the more stupiderer you will look.
Your a clown. Playing the clown quite well.
By targetting my apparent mental health (your analogy not mine) you become a defender of those lies, using a Miles Mathis quote for damage limitation because everyone can see you were taken in by a bunch of liars.
How stupid of me
Another five hours of frenzied activity struggling to defend his 'good reputation' which was only a figment of his imagination in the first place.
Thanks but no thanks.
Clown who got taken in by a photo.
Has to defend crisis actors (liars).
Has to defend the same media who told lies aka covid as somehow now trustworthy on account of a photo while suffering from amnesia.
:lol:
Oh.....and erm.....er
Oh yes...
Miles Mathis....
One last time... So after the the fake IDF have fake blitzed fake Gaza, the director shouts "That's a wrap!!!".
Everyone gets up. Hair and make up ladies come over to wipe the fake blood off everyone.
The actors are directed over to the food wagon, where they're served up a late supper by Sharon Tate and tea and coffee by John Lennon.
Did I get that right?
Crisis actors at 21:00 hours will proceed to Miles Mathis holding centre in Tel-Aviv.
Please action: 1300 fake ID’s, 1300 false passports,1300 Ronnie Biggs face-lifts, 1300 pairs of DB Cooper sunglasses and 1300 Azul Airline tickets.
On arrival at Aeroporto Internacional de São Paulo, crisis actors to be processed by Sharon Tate and John Lennon for dispersal.
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