The #IDF said another 4 #Israeli hostages abducted by #Hamas on #Oct7 had died in captivity & that their bodies are being held by the #Palestinian Islamist group.
The 4 were identified as Chaim Peri, 80, Yoram Metzger, 80, Amiram Cooper, 84, & Nadav Popplewell, 51.
All 4 were filmed alive in hostage videos posted by #Hamas.
#Hamas said that Popplewell had died of wounds sustained during an Israeli air strike when posting his video last month.
#IDF spox Rear Adm Daniel Hagari said that new intelligence led to confirmation of their deaths. The military believes the 4 were killed together in the southern #Gaza city of #KhanYounis a "number of months" ago when Israeli forces were operating in the city, Hagari said in remarks that were broadcast.
Palestinians eat the food cooked by a charity on Thursday in a destroyed neighbourhood in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]
Palestinian cooks with a charity kitchen prepare food among the rubble of houses destroyed during the Israeli military offensive against Khan Younis city in the southern Gaza Strip, on May 30, 2024 [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]
Palestinians queue in front of the pharmacy opened by Sehveil, a Palestinian pharmacist who took refuge in Khan Younis, due to a shortage of pharmacies and health services in the area [Doaa Albaz/Anadolu]
A Palestinian girl carries bottles to collect water as she walks by houses which were destroyed in an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
A boy feeds a monkey that was one of many animals evacuated from a zoo in Rafah. The animals are in danger due to lack of food, healthcare and proper shelter.
A lion evacuated from a zoo in Rafah due to the Israeli military operation, drinks water at a sanctuary in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
One of the first foreign photographers in Gaza, Sean Sutton, who was travelling with NGO UK-Med, documents the destruction in Khan Younis, in hospitals and photographs the destitution in the Israeli-designated ‘humanitarian zone’ of al- Mawasi.
Some shocking pictures.
Palestinians sit at their house which was destroyed in an Israeli strike, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip May 14, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
“There are no water, electricity, nor sewage services” in Khan Younis, a displaced man said. “We walk two to three kilometres (1.2 to 1.9 miles) to fill two jerrycans [of water], and those two jerrycans are not enough to meet the needs of the family.”
Mourners react as people work to move bodies of Palestinians killed during Israel's military offensive and buried at Nasser hospital into a cemetery in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, April 21. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed
"Fears are rising for tens of thousands of civilians in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya as Israeli troops attack the city “with extreme force” and order Palestinians to immediately flee."
Attack drones hover above al-Mawasi as injured wait for help
Within the past two hours, there has been an attack on a residential block in the al-Mawasi evacuation zone in Khan Younis. This is where the vast majority of displaced families were ordered by the Israeli military in the initial weeks of the war to go and shelter to avoid being bombed.
Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem won the prestigious 2024 World Press Photo of the Year award on Thursday for his image of a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her five-year-old niece in the Gaza Strip.
#Photography by Mohammed SALEM, Oct. 17, 2023
(Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza)
“There are no words to describe the pain inside me,” the woman said, her voice breaking. “Our memories, our dreams, our childhood here, our family … It’s all gone.”
Hanan
Khan Younis war die zweitgrößte Stadt im Gaza-Streifen - etwa 400000 Menschen lebten hier. In in den ersten Kriegswochen wurden es durch die Vertreibungen aus dem Norden doppelt soviel.
Die IDF hat sich daraus zurückgezogen, jetzt kamen die ersten Einwohner wieder zurück und stellen fest, dass von ihrer Heimatstadt fast nichts mehr übrig ist.
The Israeli regime's war minister announced that the regime's army forces have withdrawn from #Khanyounis in #Gaza in order to prepare for the upcoming mission in #Rafah.
PS. There are unconfirmed reports that IDF lost 21 soldiers and offices in a single day of operation this weekend.