Israel’s navy mentioned Monday that floor forces mounted restricted raids into the Gaza Strip in a single day to struggle Palestinian resistance teams and rescue hostages.
It additionally added that airstrikes had been being centered on websites the place Hamas members had been assembling.
In a televised briefing, chief navy spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari mentioned 222 individuals had now been confirmed as taken hostage throughout Hamas’s Oct. 7 cross-border incursion.
Earlier Sunday, one Israeli soldier was killed Sunday throughout an identical raid into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, the navy mentioned.
Israeli troops have been conducting raids throughout the border, which the navy says are supposed to clear the realm and collect intelligence about lacking individuals and captives being held by Hamas within the enclave.
“An IDF (Israel Protection Forces) soldier was killed, one was reasonably injured, and two had been evenly injured because of an anti-tank missile launched towards an IDF tank and an engineering car,” the navy mentioned.