HAMAS claims that 33 Brits including 15 kids and a six-month-old baby will be allowed to escape Gaza today.
The Rafah crossing will allegedly be opened for trapped foreign nationals – allowing dozens of Brits along with 77 Australians and 47 US citizens to flee the fighting.
AFPThe Rafah crossing is said to open today to allow foreign nationals to leave[/caption]
AFPHamas says that over 20,000 have been killed in the Strip so far[/caption]
The Hamas-led General Authority for Crossings and Borders announced the unveiling of “Egyptian Foreign Passports”, which should allow the safe travel of the UK, US and Australian nationals into Egypt today.
A spreadsheet of names has been released.
It comes as the IDF ferociously pushes on with its offensive into the southern city of Khan Younis as they close in on other members of Hamas’s top brass, including “Gaza’s Bin Laden”.
Military reports claim that Yahya Sinwar evaded death twice last week by escaping through the network of terror tunnels.
Israel, shielded by the US, has resisted international pressure to scale back its offensive and has said it would press on until Hamas has been totally eliminated.
Months of fighting lie ahead in southern Gaza – which Israel has dubbed “the new capital of terror – but is an area densely packed with the majority of the enclave’s 2.3 million people who earlier fled the fighting in the north.
With homes destroyed, they are living in crowded shelters and struggling to find food, fuel, water and medical supplies. Diseases are spreading and communications have been repeatedly cut.
The Hamas-run health authorities in Gaza claim that over 20,000 have been killed since Israel began its relentless bombardment and invasion of the densely-populated enclave.
This allegedly includes at least 8,000 children and 6,200 women.
On Tuesday, Israeli leaders said they were steeled for two more years of war in Gaza.
Ministers were told the army is about to enter phase three of the war to wipe out the terror group as a military force that could be finished by summer or in two years.
Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said: “The war in Gaza will be a long, hard war. It has costs — heavy costs — but its justification is the highest that can be. We need determination, endurance, strength and national cohesion with the goals.”
Meanwhile, Hamas warlord Mohammed Deif has been pictured for the first time in decades with only one-eye after a life spent dodging Israeli assassins and strikes.
The net is closing in on the shadowy mastermind of the terror group’s October 7 attacks as Israel’s relentless hunt for Hamas’s top leaders rages on.
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