Israel bombs targets in Gaza again and reports death of Hamas deputy intelligence chief. The news ticker about the Israel War.
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- Tel Aviv published Video: Israeli army prepares “next phase of fighting”
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Update from October 26th, 10:46 p.m.: The US military has deployed around 900 soldiers to the Middle East in view of the Gaza war. Some of the soldiers have already arrived, others are on their way to the region, said Pentagon spokesman Pat Ryder on Thursday. Some of it will be relocated from the USA. The troops would not be sent to Israel, but should support the units already in the region, emphasized Ryder. To deter regional actors, the USA has already relocated several warships and combat aircraft to the Eastern Mediterranean, and US military troops have been placed on increased operational readiness.
The US also wants to send Israel two Iron Dome missile defense systems. These are currently in the US stockpile and are intended to help Israel with air defense, said Ryder. They also supply interceptor missiles. For security reasons, Ryder said, they will not comment on when these deliveries will be shipped and arrive.
EU calls for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip in the Israel war
Update from October 26th, 9:45 p.m.: The EU states are calling for ceasefires and protected corridors for safe aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip. The deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza is a matter of grave concern, according to a summit declaration by the heads of state and government adopted in Brussels on Thursday evening.
Update from October 26th, 8:47 p.m.: According to Israeli figures, Palestinian militants have fired around 8,000 rockets at Israel since the war began. Government spokeswoman Tal Heinrich announced this on Thursday evening. The Israeli military recently put the number at an estimated 7,000. According to the military, at least 550 of them landed inside the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian militants’ rockets are usually intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system. However, impacts do occur again and again. According to official information, the interception rate is estimated at around 90 percent.
Israel reports death of senior Hamas terrorist
Update from October 26th, 7:11 p.m.: The Israeli Air Force says it has once again bombed numerous targets in the Gaza Strip in the fight against the Islamist Hamas. As the Israeli military announced on Telegram on Thursday, warplanes had attacked more than 250 “terror targets” over the past day. These included command centers, tunnel shafts and rocket launch pads in the middle of residential areas from which shots have been fired into Israeli territory since the beginning of the war.
According to its own statements, the army also killed the deputy head of Hamas’s secret service, Shadi Barud, who is said to have been partly responsible for planning the massacres in Israel. The information cannot be independently verified.
Latest news on the Israel war: Hamas reports killing of 50 hostages in Israeli attacks
Update from October 26th, 5:15 p.m.: According to the military wing of the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip, “an estimated” around 50 hostages have been killed in Israeli air strikes since the start of the war. The Al-Kassam Brigades announced this on Thursday. The information could not be independently verified. There was initially no confirmation from the Israeli military.
War in Israel: 250,000 people in Israel have left their homes
Update from October 26th, 4:45 p.m.: Around a quarter of a million people in Israel have left their homes because of the Gaza war and the fighting on the Lebanese border. An Israeli Defense Ministry spokeswoman said Thursday that 126,000 people had been relocated to less vulnerable locations as part of an official eviction program. In addition, many people left their homes of their own accord to seek safety, bringing the total number to around 250,000. Israel has a total of almost ten million inhabitants.
Update from October 26th, 3:10 p.m.: In view of the war between Israel and the radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas, Palestinian Foreign Minister Rijad al-Maliki has pushed for a two-state solution. “The two-state solution is more important than ever,” al-Maliki said on Thursday during a visit to The Hague. This solution envisages an independent Palestinian state that coexists alongside the State of Israel.
Al-Maliki accused Israel of a “campaign of revenge” in the Gaza Strip. “This time the war Israel is waging is different. This time it’s a vendetta,” he said. “First we must end this unilateral aggression and then call for a ceasefire.” A ceasefire is “essential” for the delivery of humanitarian aid.
War in Israel: renewed rocket attacks on Tel Aviv
Update from October 26th, 2:40 p.m.: The radical Islamist Hamas fired rockets again at the Israeli metropolis of Tel Aviv on Thursday. Like the portal The Times of Israel Reportedly, air raid sirens sounded in the coastal town and surrounding areas on Thursday. The portal also reports several explosions as a result of the attacks, although the Israeli air defense system “Iron Dome” could be responsible for them.
Hamas reports over 7,000 deaths since the start of the war in Israel
Update from October 26th, 2:02 p.m.: The death toll in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war is said to be over 7,000. This is based on information from the local Ministry of Health. A total of 7,028 people have died in the Gaza Strip in the war, which has been going on for 20 days, including 2,913 children and 1,709 women, the ministry led by the radical Islamic Palestinian organization said on Thursday. The information cannot currently be independently verified.
Update from October 26th, 12:42 p.m: Israel must agree to a comprehensive ceasefire so that urgently needed humanitarian aid can reach the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Foreign Minister Rijad al-Maliki has now demanded in The Hague. He loudly evaluated the planned appeal by EU heads of state and government to suspend the bombing Reuters as unacceptable because the delivery of aid supplies and the restoration of water and electricity supplies in the Gaza Strip would then not be guaranteed.
Israel war: Iran warns Tel Aviv of defeat in planned ground offensive
Update from October 26th, 12:00 p.m: The Iranian Revolutionary Guards warn Israel about its planned ground offensive. “Let me tell you: Just as the staff of Moses became the dragon and thwarted the treachery of the Pharaohs, so Gaza (…) is the dragon that will devour the Zionists when they set foot on the ground,” the news agency quoted Tasnim today their commander Hussein Salami.
The FDP defense politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann recently demanded that the EU classify the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization.
Israel war: Netanyahu vows to launch a ground offensive in Gaza
First report from October 26th: Tel Aviv – Israel leaves no doubt that a ground offensive against the Islamist Hamas in Gaza is imminent. The situation there is becoming more catastrophic by the hour for the hundreds of thousands of civilians. “I will not say when, how and how many,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his recent televised address.
War in Israel: Ground troops attack Hamas targets
The Israeli military again sent some ground troops to the north of the Gaza Strip on the night of today, but has already ended the operation. Several facilities of the radical Islamic Hamas were attacked before the soldiers withdrew, the military said in the morning. On the station Army radio There was talk of the largest deployment of ground troops to date in the current war.
Israel War: Israeli army prepares “next phase of fighting”
In a video released by the military from the nighttime operation, armored vehicles could be seen driving through a sandy border zone. Tanks fired grenades. Explosions could be seen near or amid a number of damaged buildings, the news agency reported Reuters.
The military said the incursion was “in preparation for the next phases of the fight.” This could be a reference to a large-scale invasion of ground troops, which the Israeli government has repeatedly threatened. The government’s stated goal is to wipe out Hamas. “The soldiers have now left the area and returned to Israeli territory,” the military statement continued. (with news agency material)