Even after 100 days: The terrorist organization Hamas continues to fight despite losses. Israel’s army gives new figures. News ticker about the war in Israel and Gaza.
- Health Authority: Nearly 24,000 Palestinians killed
- Tunnel system the Hamas: Israel faces major challenges in the Gaza war
- report for the Israel war: Losses apparently do not deter terrorist organization
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Update from January 14th, 9 p.m: Israeli troops today killed two Palestinians who apparently hurled an explosive device at an army base near Ramallah in the West Bank, Times of Israel reports. According to the report, members of the 636th Combat Intelligence Collection, who were conducting “proactive activities” near Ramallah, noticed the two suspects hurling a bomb at the base and opened fire. According to the IDF, no soldiers were injured.
War in Gaza: Over 9,000 Hamas fighters killed – 188 killed on the Israeli side
Update from January 14th, 8:32 p.m: The Israeli army (IDF) says it has killed more than 9,000 Hamas activists and fighters from other terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war. In addition, there are around 1,000 terrorists who were killed in Israel on October 7th. According to the IDF, the military also eliminated two Hamas brigade commanders and 19 battalion commanders, as well as other senior officials of equivalent rank. In Lebanon, the IDF says it has killed more than 170 terrorists, mostly members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Some 30,000 targets have been attacked in the Gaza Strip since the war began, including more than 3,400 that were discovered to be Hamas sites during the fighting. In Lebanon, around 750 Hibsollah positions were attacked, according to the IDF. On the Israeli side, a total of 295,000 reservists were called up. Of these, around 45,000 are in service, although they are exempt from reserve duty.
In total, 522 soldiers, reservists and local security officers have been killed and another 2,536 injured since October 7. Of these, 188 were killed and 1,113 injured in the ground offensive in Gaza. In addition, during the ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, 19 soldiers died from friendly fire, i.e. shelling from their own side, and another 36 died from accidents.
Current situation in the Israel-Gaza war: Government discusses state budget
Update from January 14th, 3:20 p.m: The costs of the Gaza war are leaving a major mark on the Israeli state budget. According to a current budget draft, a gap of 6.6 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) will be left in the 2024 budget. This is reported by, among others Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Israel previously assumed a more optimistic 2.25 percent. The new draft is to be discussed by the Israeli government today. A decision is expected later tomorrow. According to the current draft, the costs for the war against the terrorist organization Hamas for the years 2023/2024 are estimated at the equivalent of 36.8 billion euros.
Health authority reports almost 24,000 Palestinians killed
First report from January 14th: Tel Aviv/Gaza – Israel has been waging war against terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip for 100 days following an attack and hostage-taking by Hamas. The Israeli army did not achieve its war goals. The outlook also sounds sobering.
According to the health authority there, 23,968 people have been killed in attacks by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war. The authority, which is subordinate to the terrorist Hamas, announced that there were also over 60,000 injured. This is reported by, among others daily News.
Hamas’ tunnel system poses major challenges for Israel in the Gaza war
On the 100th day of the war against Hamas, Israel is still far from achieving its war goals, according to a media report. The Israeli daily newspaper cited this as one of several reasons Haaretz (January 13 issue) said Israel was surprised by the extent of Hamas’s tunnels in the Gaza Strip.
The underground passages are therefore more sophisticated than expected. The leadership of the terrorist organization Hamas is relatively well protected from attacks. She probably surrounds herself with the hostages kidnapped from Israel. For these reasons it would be difficult to defeat them, the paper wrote. In addition to destroying the Islamist Hamas, Israel also wants to use the war to achieve the release of all hostages kidnapped into the Gaza Strip.
News about the Israel-Gaza war: Losses are apparently not deterring Hamas
In the first two months of the war, there was also the assumption that Hamas would stop fighting due to the high losses in its ranks. This had not happened and it was doubtful whether it would happen again.
Members of Hamas’ military wing continued to fight as guerrilla troops after their battalions were destroyed in the north of the Gaza Strip, it said. The terrorists emerged from tunnels and attacked Israeli soldiers. This demands a price from the army almost every day, she wrote Haaretz further.
Although Hamas’s losses are significantly greater than on the Israeli side, Israel is still suffering, according to the Haaretz difficult to achieve a strategic victory. There is a risk that the fighting will stagnate.
The Gaza war was triggered by the terrorist attack by the Islamist Hamas and other extremist Palestinian groups on October 7th last year. They murdered more than 1,200 people. (with news agency material)