Israel-Hamas war: What happened on day 47?

IDF fighter jets have destroyed a series of targets where Hezbollah terrorists operated in Lebanon on Wednesday.

Targets included terror infrastructure, a military site belonging to Hezbollah, and a terror squad from the terror organization that launched strikes from Lebanon into Israeli territory near the Hanita area.

The IDF on Wednesday brought The Jerusalem Post and select other media outlets to view Hamas’s terror infrastructure at Al-Shifa Hospital, especially its several hundred-meter tunnel network, up close.

This was the first time a reporter from the Post crossed into Gaza since the IDF withdrawal in 2005 and brought up close all of the cumulative findings of the IDF since November 15 of what Hamas tried desperately to hide at Al-Shifa.

Laid out next to the Qatar facility within the Shifa complex was a vast amount of not only Hamas’s guns and grenades which the IDF found hidden throughout the hospital, but also rocket-propelled grenade launchers, large and small advanced drones for delivering explosives, and a variety of sophisticated intelligence platforms.

JPost enters the depths of Hamas's terror tunnels

The vastness of the tunnel itself, with the Post viewing a variety of sophisticated rooms and the blast door which the IDF showed earlier this week, was testimony to how important this location was to Hamas.

Among the rooms, was a very large bedroom with two spaced-out beds and a large modern air conditioning unit, a kitchenette, a bathroom, and other facilities, as well as extensive plumbing and electrical wiring to enable all of the infrastructure.

Two members of the IDF’s special Yahalom unit for uncovering tunnels and IDF Chief Spokesman Brig. Gen. Daniel Hagari described the process of discovering the tunnel as a huge riddle.

They had intelligence about Hamas’s tunnel network at Al-Shifa Hospital long before arriving at the site.

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IDF paratroopers raided the military intelligence headquarters and outpost of Hamas Wednesday evening in Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in southern Gaza City.

Israeli forces collected Hamas intelligence materials that included significant information about the underground infrastructure that the terrorist organization constructed. Terrorists were also eliminated in the operation and forces located a workshop that produced anti-tank missiles and explosive drones and charges.

The High Court of Justice on Wednesday dismissed a petition filed by the Almagor organization against the hostage release deal, arguing it has no place to weigh in on decisions of a clear political and diplomated nature. 

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The United States is against the displacement of Palestinians from the battered Gaza Strip to another country, its special envoy for humanitarian affairs in the Middle East David Satterfield told Lebanese broadcaster al-Jadeed on Wednesday.

Satterfield said Gazans displaced to the strip's south by Israel's military operations "must be allowed to return to homes in the north as soon as possible." He said the US. "wants to see Israel succeed in its campaign," and warned Lebanese Hezbollah to halt missile fire on Israel if it wanted to avoid an escalation.

The world celebrated International Children’s Day on Monday, but Israel did not, as dozens of children are being held captive in Gaza. Instead, toys recovered from Kibbutz Be’eri, one of the sites of the massacre, were displayed for the world to understand the terror these children suffered.

Ten months, 4 years, 11 years old—these are among the ages of the innocent children held hostage by Hamas.

Actor and influencer Nate Buzolic, who attended the exposition, shared his reactions with The Media Line.

“Sadness, the injustice, children are the most innocent victims of this whole tragedy, and the fact that there [are] 40 children still in Gaza that [have been] kidnapped by Hamas and that the international community has said nothing, UNICEF has done nothing, [the] Red Cross has done nothing—it makes me angry because it seems like the whole world wants to talk about what’s happening to the Palestinians and not for a second, not for a moment, did the world mention what happened to the Israeli children,” he said.

In a somber commemoration of what should have been a joyous day, the famous photojournalist Ziv Koren went to one of the sites of the massacre and gathered toys that belonged to children who lived in this paradise that one Saturday morning became hell.

Soldiers in the IDF's Givati Brigade raided the headquarters of Hamas in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.

Their headquarters were located Sheikh Zayed area of the strip where many of the senior members of the Hamas terorrist organization currently live.

The IDF stated that there were Hamas outposts in the neighborhood that were being used by the terrorist organization's Nukhba forces and were located in the heart of the civilian populations.

The forces carried out an armored raid on the outpost and located several shafts going deep underground, including a wide strategic shaft 50 meters deep and 7 meters wide. Launch complexes were located that included a lathe for the production of rockets, underground pits intended for launching, and other means of warfare.

The Givati Brigade eliminated dozens of terrorists in the area and destroyed the outpost.

One of the hostage children who might be released by Hamas in this week’s expected exchange is three-year-old Avigail Idan.

Idan, who holds American citizenship, has become a symbol of sorts for the nearly 40 children believed to be held captive by Hamas after US President Joe Biden discussed her plight on a call with Qatar's Emir earlier this month.

She was kidnapped on October 7 from her home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Her parents, Roee and Smadar Idan were killed, and her older siblings, Michael, 9 and Amalya, 6,  survived by hiding in closets in their room for 14 hours.

Avigail was carried by her father, a photographer for Ynet, when he was shot and later crawled out of from under his body.  Covered in her father’s blood, she ran to family friends in a nearby home. The neighbor brought her to the family's safe room with his wife and three children and went to fight the terrorists. When he returned, hours later his wife, his children, and Avigail were gone.

An IDF fighter jet intercepted a cruise missile that was launched towards Eilat on Wednesday. 

The interception was followed by sirens sounding in Israel's southernmost city warning about the hostile aircraft infiltration.

Security officials in the city updated that there was no threat after the interception. 

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Mossad Director David Barnea will visit Qatar to discuss the hostage release deal with the Prime Minister and other Qatari officials, it was reported on Wednesday.

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