The Israeli military on Friday claimed to have killed Ali Qadi, a commander of the Islamist Hamas movement's raid force known as Nujba and considered the main executor of the October 7 ground attack on southern Israel that sparked the current conflict. .
"Last night, Israeli warplanes carried out large-scale attacks throughout the Strip," including on a point "where there were dozens of Hamas terrorist targets and terrorist operatives from Nujba," an elite unit of the al-Qassam Brigades. which was "one of the main forces" that a week ago "led the ground infiltration" into Israel, an Israeli Army spokesperson reported this Saturday.
Qadi was captured in 2005 for the kidnapping and murder of Israeli civilians, but benefited in 2011 from the exchange of 1,400 Palestinian prisoners for the Israeli soldier Gilat Shalit, captured in 2006. Upon release from prison he returned to military activity with Hamas.
In the last few hours, Israel has also reported that it has killed the head of the Hamas air force, Murad Abu Marad, considered one of the masterminds of last Saturday's offensive against Israel. The death of Abu Marad would have occurred this early Saturday morning in a bombardment with fighter planes against the headquarters of the terrorist organization, in the Gaza Strip.
"Murad Abu Murad participated and led the terrorists in the murderous attack last Saturday. The headquarters served to manage Hamas' air activities," said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which has attached a video where you can watch a missile destroy a building.
Daniel Hagari, the spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces, anticipated this Saturday that the troops are preparing for the next stages of the war and once again insisted on the need for the population of northern Gaza to move to the south of the Strip. since they plan to attack the area "with great force."
This message comes hours after the 24-hour deadline that Israel gave in the early hours of yesterday to the 1.1 million inhabitants of the northern Strip, and which was extended today until 4:00 p.m. local time.
Israel's evacuation order at midnight between Thursday and Friday generated widespread chaos in Gaza, with tens of thousands of Palestinians taking their belongings and heading south on foot or by car.
Three convoys heading towards the south of the enclave in the middle of the massive evacuation operation due to Israel's ultimatum were hit yesterday by an Israeli bombardment that, according to Health, left about 70 dead, mostly women and children. Their deaths add to a death toll that rose today to 2,215, the vast majority civilians, including 724 children and 458 women, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. Additionally, 8,714 people have been injured since the start of hostilities following the Hamas attack that left more than 1,300 dead in Israel.
This new figure marks an increase of about 300 Palestinian deaths since the last report from the Ministry of Health, issued last night, after a new night of Israeli bombings, which have practically not stopped during the last week.
In parallel with the Israeli attacks on Gaza, the firing of rockets by the militias of the Strip also continued this Saturday, sounding anti-aircraft alarms both in Israeli communities near the border and in cities in the center of the country.
