According to the initial proposals, a clearly designated humanitarian compound will first be established in the north and center of the strip, where Gazan civilians will arrive.
During an event Tuesday in the West Bank, Netanyahu again vowed that the war would not end without Israel’s “absolute victory” over Hamas.
The force raided the hospital area around 5:30 and within a few minutes the terrorists were already eliminated. By 5:40 the force had already begun its exit.
The military identified one of the men as Mohammed Jalamneh, 27, from Jenin, who it said had contacts with Hamas headquarters abroad and was planning "a raid attack inspired by the October 7 massacre."
The tunnel was a critical part of Hamas' infrastructure for coordinating attacks against IDF forces.
The document says intelligence gathered shows that at least 190 UNRWA workers had ties to Hamas or Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Working for UNRWA is very lucrative. Agency employees are entitled to free education, health, dental care, food distribution and welfare services. These favorable conditions have caused many Hamas terrorists to register themselves as agency employees. This double affiliation, with Hamas and UNRWA, allows the organization's terrorists to freely use the agency's infrastructure for other purposes that have been discovered countless times during IDF counterterrorism operations in the strip.
Sunday's intelligence meeting included CIA Director Bill Burns, the head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, David Barnea, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, and Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel.
"While we are still gathering the facts of this attack, we know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq," Biden said in a statement.
“The abhorrent alleged acts of these staff members must have consequences,” Guterres said in a statement, conceding their apparent complicity in the Oct. 7 attack.