An Israeli strike killed a high official answerable for ambulance providers within the Gaza Strip, native well being officers stated on Monday, because the Israeli protection minister met with high American officers in Washington a few potential new part within the Israeli offensive.
The official, Hani al-Jafarawi, who was the director of ambulance and emergency providers in Gaza, was killed in a strike on a well being clinic in Gaza Metropolis, the Gazan Well being Ministry stated.
The Israeli army didn’t reply to a request for remark. It stated earlier on Monday that it had killed one other man, Muhammad Salah, whom it referred to as a Hamas operative, in Gaza Metropolis on Sunday evening. It was not clear if the 2 males have been killed in the identical strike.
Tons of of well being care staff in Gaza have been killed by Israel’s pulverizing bombing marketing campaign or have been caught in the midst of floor fight between the Israeli army and Hamas, based on the Well being Ministry.
The conferences within the Washington space by Israel’s protection minister, Yoav Gallant, with the C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, and Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Monday coincided with a possible shift within the army marketing campaign signaled by Israeli officers in current days.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that the intensive part of Israel’s battle in opposition to Hamas was “about to finish,” though he made clear that Israel wouldn’t cease preventing in Gaza till Hamas was “eradicated.”
The chief of workers of Israel’s army, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, additionally stated on Sunday that Hamas’s fighters in Rafah, the southern Gazan metropolis that Israel invaded in Could, after the Hamas-led assaults on Oct. 7, have been near being crushed.
“We’re clearly approaching the purpose the place we are able to say now we have dismantled the Rafah brigade,” Common Halevi stated, including that the brigade was “defeated not within the sense that there are not any extra terrorists, however within the sense that it may possibly now not perform as a preventing unit.”