TEL AVIV (ISRAELE) (ITALPRESS) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday evening that Israel will reopen the Rafah Pass between Gaza and Egypt, after completing a military operation to recover the body of the last deceased hostage, Sergeant Major Ran Gvili. The announcement followed a meeting of the Council of Ministers on Security on the matter, and while Israel faces significant international pressure to reopen the Rafah Pass.
“In the framework of President Trump’s 20-point program, Israel agreed to open the Rafah Pass with a limited opening to the only pedestrian passage, with a complete Israeli control mechanism. The opening of the passage is subordinated to the return of all the living hostages and to the 100% commitment by Hamas to locate and return all the deceased hostages”, reads in the note of the office of Netanyahu.
The Israeli army “is conducting in these hours a targeted operation to exploit all intelligence information obtained in the effort to locate and return the crashed Ran Gvili. At the end of the operation and according to the United States, Israel will open the Rafah Pass,” he continues. Although the statement of Netanyahu’s office did not provide a specific timing for the military operation aimed at recovering Gvili’s body, an American official told the Times of Israel that Washington predicts that the research will last several days, allowing Rafah’s reopening by the end of this week.
PALESTINESE UCCISO DALL’IDF
A Palestinian man was killed this morning by the Israeli defence forces (Idf) north-east of Gaza City. It is reported by the Palestinian press agency Wafa, according to which the man was hit on the head in the Zarqa area, in the Tuffah district, north-east of Gaza City. Meanwhile, a girl was wounded by the Israeli army fire west of Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip. At the moment the Idf did not comment.
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