“About 70 Hamas members were arrested”… First video released
Defense Minister: Destruction of Hamas will take months more
“Half of Israeli bombings in Gaza are ‘blind bombs’” report
On the 14th (local time), the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released for the first time a video of Hamas members in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, surrendering.
On this day, the Israeli military posted a related video on social media, saying, “We arrested more than 70 terrorists at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.”
The video shows Palestinian men walking in a line with their hands raised while being watched by the Israeli military, and shirtless men laying down weapons such as rifles and magazines on the ground.
Recently, a video showing men believed to be Hamas members surrendering to the Israeli military has been shared several times on social media, but this is the first time the Israeli military has released the video on its own social media.
In addition, Israel reaffirmed its stance that it will continue the war despite pressure from the international community for a ceasefire. According to foreign media such as the Times of Israel (TOI) and NBC, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant met with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on this day and said, “Hamas is a terrorist organization that has been preparing for decades to fight Israel and has infrastructure both underground and on the ground. “It is not easy to build and destroy,” he said. “It will take time,” he said, adding, “It will last for months and more, but we will win and we will destroy Hamas.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also said after meeting with Sullivan, “I told my American friend that the heroic soldier did not fall in vain,” and added, “I am determined to escape from the deep pain and continue to fight until Hamas is eliminated, that is, until absolute victory comes.” “We have strengthened our position more than ever,” he said in a statement.
While Israel has repeatedly stated its intention to continue the war, concerns about civilian casualties are growing as reports emerge that nearly half of the air-to-ground attacks Israel used in the Gaza Strip were unguided so-called “blind bombs.”
Citing three sources, CNN reported that the U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI) analyzed that 40-45% of the 29,000 air-to-ground bombings used by Israel on the Gaza Strip were unguided attacks. Unguided bombs are sometimes called ‘dumb bombs’ because their precision is low and there is a small possibility that civilians who are not the target of the attack will be harmed. Especially in densely populated areas like the Gaza Strip, civilian casualties are bound to be greater than targets.
In fact, half of Israel’s air-to-ground attacks were indiscriminate attacks that were not properly targeted. CNN analyzed that the snowballing of civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip may be due to Israel’s rate of unguided bombs.
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