GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories: Gaza’s civil defense agency said Tuesday that an Israeli operation in and around the territory’s second city of Khan Yunis killed about 300 people since it began last week, while the army said it had “eliminated 150 terrorists.”
“Since the beginning of the Israeli ground invasion of the eastern part of Khan Yunis province, the civil defense and medical teams have recovered approximately 300 bodies of martyrs, many of them decomposed,” agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP.
The Israeli military launched the assault on July 22 to halt rocket fire from the area, which already saw heavy fighting earlier this year.
Last week, it said troops had retrieved the bodies of five Israelis from the area.
They had been killed during the Hamas attacks of October 7 and their bodies taken back to Gaza, the military said.
On Tuesday, the military said it had completed the operation in the area of Khan Yunis and had killed “over 150 terrorists.”
It said troops also “dismantled terror tunnels, weapons storage facilities, and terrorist infrastructure and located weapons.”
Gaza official says 300 killed in Khan Yunis as army ends assault
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Gaza official says 300 killed in Khan Yunis as army ends assault
- “Civil defense and medical teams have recovered approximately 300 bodies of martyrs, many of them decomposed,” agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal said
- The Israeli military launched the assault on July 22 to halt rocket fire from the area
‘Hell to pay’ if Hamas doesn’t disarm, Trump says
- “They have to disarm in a fairly short period of time,” he said
- Claims Israel is complying with agreement
PALM BEACH, Florida: US President Donald Trump warned Monday that Hamas would have “hell to pay” if it does not disarm quickly as part of the Gaza deal, which he said Israel was complying with.
“If they don’t disarm as they agreed to do, then there will be hell to pay for them,” Trump told a joint news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Florida.
“They have to disarm in a fairly short period of time,” Trump said.
Trump publicly threw his support behind Netanyahu, who has taken a hard line on moving to the next stage of the Gaza ceasefire plan.
“I’m not concerned about anything that Israel’s doing,” Trump said.
“I’m concerned about what other people are doing or maybe aren’t doing. But I’m not concerned. They’ve lived up to the plan.”
