Yom Rishon
Sunday
10 Adar
February 18 2024
UPDATE 4 AM
On the Ground In the South
While intense fighting continues in Khan Younis and soon in Rafah, the IDF has been paving a new highway that goes from Nahal Oz in Israel all the way to the Mediterranean Sea–a road that will effectively cut off northern Gaza from the rest of Gaza. Note the red dots below which are where the road–Road 749–is being built.
From a Givati Commander yesterday:
“Battles in the Gaza Strip continue all the time, and our forces are eliminating hundreds of terrorists, attacking and destroying terrorist infrastructure, weapons and ammunition. At the same time, we are also preparing to enter Rafah, and Prime Minister Netanyahu declared in his speech this evening that whoever tells Israel not to act in Rafah is actually demanding that it lose the war against Hamas.”
*The Washington Post posted a video yesterday taken on October 7th which clearly shows an UNRWA employee loading the dead body of a murdered Israeli at Be’eri into a vehicle.
*Dozens of boxes of medicines which were supposed to have been given to Israeli hostages were found at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
*The terrorist who fired the missiles at south Ashkelon yesterday was identified and killed 30 minutes later.
The Surprising Quote of the Day
“Hamas is outside the Palestinian consensus. We must settle accounts with those who financed it and strengthened it and deepened the Palestinian rift.”
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry at a conference in Munich:
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.