Defense and Security
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades hailed the terrorists who carried out the “heroic Hebron operation.”
The Histradrut labor federation head to meet with the families of hostages • Protesters to gather in Tel Aviv • Tel Aviv, Givatayim, Gezer Regional Council to strike.
Achiya Zenilman, who began first grade in the city’s Neve Etzion School, lost his American-born father Master Sgt. (res.) Ari Yechiel Zenilman, 32, in the southern Gaza Strip in December.
“We have the opportunity to do what we failed to do in Gaza on the night between Oct. 6 and 7,” the Israeli finance minister urged.
Rabbi Bentzi Mann had never seen a dead body in his life before Oct. 8. Within 15 minutes of his arrival at the IDF’s Shura Base, he found himself holding one, covered in blood.
“Hamas murdered our hostages in cold blood precisely to make us surrender and accept its demands,” Bezalel Smotrich said.
Israel has consented to “humanitarian pauses” across areas of the Gaza Strip to facilitate the inoculation effort.
The murder of six Israeli captives was further evidence of “the bitter enemy we are fighting,” according to the group.
The Israeli prime minister said he was “outraged to the depths of my soul” by the terror group’s murder of six hostages in Gaza.
Palestinian terrorists breached the border through 119 holes they created in the fence separating Israel from the Strip.
Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eden Yerushalmi, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov, Carmel Gat and Ori Danino were murdered shortly before the IDF reached them.
The officers were named as Chief Inspector Arik Ben Eliyahu, Command Sgt. Maj. Hadas Branch and 1st Sgt. Roni Shakuri.
