Hamas defeated, Israeli War Cabinet minister claims
It comes after Israeli War Cabinet minister Benny Gantz claimed Hamas had been defeated militarily, though he added Israel will fight the group for years to come.
“From a military point of view, Hamas is defeated. Its fighters are eliminated or in hiding” and its capabilities “crippled”, Mr Gantz said.
But he added: “Fighting against Hamas will take time. Boys who are now in middle school will still fight in the Gaza Strip.”
Mr Gantz reiterated the Israeli government’s commitment to invade the southern city of Rafah – where more than half the territory’s 2.3 million people have fled – a day after Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed the attack would go ahead and declared: “There is a date.”
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Gazans ‘celebrate’ Eid despite war
A despondent Eid al-Fitr
The strike on Haniyeh’s children came as Palestinians marked a despondent Eid al-Fitr holiday, which ends the Ramadan fasting month, by visiting the graves of their loved ones killed in the war.
More than 33,400 Palestinians have been killed in the fighting, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry, which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants but says most of the dead are women and children.
The war erupted after Hamas killed 1,200 people in southern Israel in a cross-border rampage on 7 October.
Israel says it has killed some 12,000 militants, without providing evidence, and lost more than 600 soldiers.
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