IDF shoots down Hezbollah drone, engages in Gaza operations, and initiates aid fund for soldiers' families amid escalating tensions.
The IDF has intensified operations within Shifa Hospital in recent weeks, where they killed numerous terrorists, including a Hamas official.
Amid the firefights, IDF troops evacuated civilians, patients, and medical teams to alternative medical facilities that the IDF set up in the area to enable proper medical treatment to continue.
At least around 26,000 Hamas members have been put out of action by Israel to date when adding together killed, wounded, and arrested totals.
IDF aircraft eliminates terror targets around the Gaza Strip • Soldiers discover weapons and munitions in Al-Shifa Hospital.
The IDF also eliminated Ghazi Abu Tama’ah, a senior member of Hamas’s military council.
Islamic Jihad terrorists claimed to have been stationed at the hospital for months.
Jets carried out aerial attacks on the area from which rockets were launched into Sderot.
An anonymous Hamas source told Arab media that the IDF's operational capabilities, which include its recent killings and arrests of Hamas terrorists, should not be underestimated.
Hamas has largely expected a ceasefire and withdrawal of IDF soldiers to allow its members to return to pockets across northern and central Gaza, including Shifa hospital.
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