ISREALI REPORTS
All female hostages in Gaza being sexually abused, freed hostage says
Many of the people at the session broke into tears and sobs while they and others were speaking.
Every Israeli woman who is being held captive by Hamas in Gaza is being sexually abused, freed hostage Mia Regev said during an emergency debate in the Knesset's Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality on the situation of the women hostages.
Regev, who was freed during the hostage deal between Israel and Hamas in November, said that it was "unbelievable" that the Knesset was planning on going on recess on April 8 for over five weeks.
"Every day, there is an emergency and every minute counts. What will the women do there? What will the rest of the captives do there?" Regev said.
Yaffa Ohad, the aunt of the captive Noa Argamani, said that recent reports of both Amit Soussana, who described to the New York Times how her captor sexually attacked her at gunpoint, and of a Hamas captive who described in an interrogation how he raped an Israeli woman in a Kibbutz on October 7, have broken the families' spirit. Ohad warned that time was running out, not just for the captives.
** IDF to create joint HQ for Gaza aid after killing of World Food Kitchen workers
Around half a day after the IDF’s disastrous mistaken killing of seven World Food Kitchen workers in central Gaza, the military has said that its COGAT and Southern Command branches are establishing a joint command center for handling humanitarian aid distribution.
The IDF said that such a command center was in the planning stages before the accidental air strikes on three WFK trucks, possibly by multiple IDF drones, but is being accelerated following the episode.
It is expected to start operating tonight, and the IDF expects that this will improve coordination between the battle and humanitarian coordination arms. However, the military said this coordination was significant even before the incident.
In addition, the IDF said that – given the sensitive nature of the incident globally - it is rushing to publicly produce details about what went wrong, which officials made mistakes, and how the mistakes developed as early as Tuesday night, but in any case within a mere matter of days.
** IDF: A short while ago, an IAF aircraft struck the terrorist cell in the area of Wadi Hamoul that fired launches toward the Western Galilee area.
Throughout the day, IDF artillery struck to remove threats in a number of areas, including Rmeish and Maisat.
** IDF: The Chief of the General Staff was presented with the preliminary debrief into the WCK incident
“I want to be very clear—the strike was not carried out with the intention of harming WCK aid workers. It was a mistake that followed a misidentification–at night during a war in very complex conditions. It shouldn’t have happened.”
HAMAS’ REPORTS
In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful
The Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades mourns to the Islamic and Arab nation the great martyr commander/
Muhammad Reza Zahedi (Abu Mahdi)
And his brothers who died as martyrs on the road to Jerusalem yesterday, Monday, Ramadan 22, 1445 AH, corresponding to 04/01/2024 AD; In a treacherous Zionist bombing of the Syrian capital, Damascus.
We, the Al-Qassam Brigades, denounce the cowardly assassination; We praise the great role of the martyr Abu Mahdi in building the resistance front against the Zionist occupation over many years. And his prominent role in the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood.
It is a jihad of victory or martyrdom.
Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades - Palestine
Tuesday 23 Ramadan 1445 AH
Corresponding to 04/02/2024 AD
** The division's Mujahideen were able to target a Zionist force holed up in a building with a fortification-resistant "TBG" shell, causing it to fall between the Palestinians and a wounded person east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
** Resistance fighters continue to target occupation soldiers and vehicles storming the Al-Fara’a camp in Tubas with several homemade devices.
Jerusalem Post/IDF/Hamas Brigade al-Qassam