Tel Aviv’s reaction to 24 deaths in 24 hours; It was a painful morning.
After announcing that 24 Israeli soldiers were killed in the last 24 hours and during the battles of Khan Yunis, located in the south of Gaza, Tel Aviv authorities and media expressed their sorrow over this “painful morning”.
“Today is a difficult, painful, and unbearable morning for us”, this was the message of the head of the Israeli regime, Isaac Herzog, to all the residents of occupied Palestine.
Tel Aviv War Minister Yoav Gallant also wrote in a message that “this morning is hard and painful, But this war will determine the future of Israel for the next few decades, casualties are necessary to achieve the goals.
These reactions were not limited to the war cabinet and even caused the extremists allied with Benjamin Netanyahu to express their displeasure. “It is a difficult and painful morning… the heart is broken,” said the Minister of Internal Security of the Cabinet, Itmar Benguvir.
The leader of the opposition Yair Lapid also wrote that “it was a difficult and unbearable morning with the painful news of the death of 21 Israeli soldiers in Gaza”; war cabinet member Benny Gantz called the event “a very difficult morning for all the people of Israel.”
This morning, Tuesday, January 23, the Israeli army announced the death of 24 more of its soldiers in southern Gaza; While Tel Aviv manipulated these figures 3 times to reduce casualties, the media claimed more military deaths in Khan Yunis and described yesterday’s clashes as “very tough”.
Heavy fighting has started in Khan Younis for the past two weeks between the Israeli military and the resistance forces, and Palestinian sources announced that this morning, the Israeli regime’s fighters launched heavy attacks on the center and east of Khan Yunis, in addition to targeting residential houses, and bombarded the vicinity of Nasser Hospital again.
According to Hebrew reports, the firing of RPG rockets by the resistance at two buildings in Khan Yunis led to the explosion of mines that were already planted in the building; The destruction of these two buildings killed and injured a large number of Israeli soldiers inside the buildings.
Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari admitted about this heavy defeat that our mission is carried out in a difficult security situation and “what happened yesterday was a real tragedy; This war has a very, very heavy price.”
Yediot Aharanot newspaper wrote in additional reports that “in the battles of the past day, 7 soldiers were seriously injured”. In confirmation of this news, Soroka Hospital announced that yesterday it admitted 7 soldiers wounded in the battles in southern Gaza with serious injuries.