Since this morning at 9am (local time), the Israeli army has once again opened a humanitarian corridor along the Salah ad Din road to allow the population of northern Gaza to flow to the south.
This was announced by spokesperson Avichai Adraee who released the information on X in Arabic.
The corridor will remain open for 7 hours until the afternoon. Furthermore , there will be "a tactical suspension of military operations" on the Jabalya refugee camp in the north to allow the population to move south to Gaza.
Meanwhile, the army announces that it has killed Ahmed Siam, company commander of Hamas's "Naser Radwan Company". The military spokesman made this known, recalling that two days ago it was announced that Siam was holding around 1,000 Gazans hostage in the Rantisi hospital and had prevented them from evacuating towards the south. Siam - he specified - was killed while hiding inside the "Al Buraq" school together with "other terrorists" and this demonstrates "once again Hamas' use of civilians as human shields for terrorism purposes".
And the Shifa hospital, the largest in the Strip in the center of Gaza City, is under siege. The soldiers have surrounded the structure under which they believe the head of Hamas in Gaza Yahya Sinwar is hiding, having long disappeared from circulation and being hunted by Israel, which considers him the number one person responsible for the massacres of 7 October.
According to Israeli intelligence, which has shown various evidence in this regard including testimony from captured militiamen, the Shifa beneath its surface conceals the central command of the Islamic faction, from which it directs all operations. And where it would cram 500,000 liters of fuel. Accusations rejected by Hamas which instead speaks of a normal hospital, currently full of displaced people arriving from the north of the Palestinian enclave.
“It is an absolute lie that the Hamas command center is hidden under the hospital,” said health facility director Muhammad Abu Salmiya.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, despite American warnings, reiterated that the army "will maintain control over Gaza even after the war" , rejecting the idea of relying on "international forces" for the management of the Strip put forward by many European leaders on the Unifil model.
(Unioneonline/D)