An Israeli strike killed a high official accountable for ambulance companies within the Gaza Strip, native well being officers mentioned on Monday, because the Israeli protection minister met with high American officers in Washington a couple of attainable new section within the Israeli offensive.
The official, Hani al-Jafarawi, who was the director of ambulance and emergency companies in Gaza, was killed in a strike on a well being clinic in Gaza Metropolis, the Gazan Well being Ministry mentioned.
The Israeli army didn’t reply to a request for remark. It mentioned earlier on Monday that it had killed one other man, Muhammad Salah, whom it referred to as a Hamas operative, in Gaza Metropolis on Sunday evening. It was not clear if the 2 males had been killed in the identical strike.
A whole lot of well being care employees in Gaza have been killed by Israel’s pulverizing bombing marketing campaign or have been caught in the midst of floor fight between the Israeli army and Hamas, in response to the Well being Ministry.
The conferences within the Washington space by Israel’s protection minister, Yoav Gallant, with the C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, and Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Monday coincided with a possible shift within the army marketing campaign signaled by Israeli officers in current days.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned that the intensive section of Israel’s conflict towards Hamas was “about to finish,” though he made clear that Israel wouldn’t cease combating in Gaza till Hamas was “eradicated.”
The chief of workers of Israel’s army, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, additionally mentioned on Sunday that Hamas’s fighters in Rafah, the southern Gazan metropolis that Israel invaded in Could, after the Hamas-led assaults on Oct. 7, had been near being crushed.
“We’re clearly approaching the purpose the place we will say we now have dismantled the Rafah brigade,” Normal Halevi mentioned, including that the brigade was “defeated not within the sense that there aren’t any extra terrorists, however within the sense that it may now not operate as a combating unit.”
