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IDF Spokesperson/TPS-IL on 1 November, 2024
Israel Strikes 200 Hezbollah, Hamas Targets Following Deadliest Day of Barrages
Jerusalem, 1 November, 2024 (TPS) -- Over the past day, the Israeli Air Force struck over 200 Hezbollah and Hamas targets in Gaza and Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces said on Friday. The strikes came amid Hezbollah rocket barrages which killed seven people in northern Israel on Thursday.
The airstrikes targeted command and control centers, rocket launchers and other terror infrastructure.
An Israeli farmer and four Thai agricultural workers were killed when two rockets struck an apple orchard in the northern town of Metula. The farmer was identified as 47-year-old Omer Weinstein, a resident of the nearby Kibbutz Dafna. Weinstein is survived by a wife and four children.
Thailand’s Foreign Ministry identified the four workers as Kawisak Papanang, Akaphon Vanasay, Thanh Tig’antk and Prayat Philatram.
Later on Wednesday, 60-year-old Mina Hasson and her 26-year-old son, Carmi, were killed when a rocket struck an olive grove on Kibbutz Afek, near Haifa. The Hassons, who are Druze residents of Shfar’am, had come to the kibbutz to help with the olive harvest.
Meanwhile, in the northern Gaza area of Jabaliya, Israeli forces eliminated dozens of terrorists from the air and ground and conducted targeted raids on military structures.
In central Gaza, the troops identified and eliminated several armed terrorists who were operating in the area.
In the Rafah area of southern Gaza, the troops identified terrorists operating within a military structure that had an underground tunnel shaft. The Air Force then struck and eliminated the terrorists.
After the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023, Hezbollah began firing rockets and launching drones at northern Israel communities daily. More than 68,000 residents of northern Israel are displaced from their homes. Hezbollah leaders have repeatedly said they would continue the attacks to prevent Israelis from returning to their homes.
According to United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War, the terror group is forbidden from operating in southern Lebanon.
At least 1,200 people were killed, and 252 Israelis and foreigners were taken hostage in Hamas’s attacks on Israeli communities near the Gaza border on October 7. Of the 97 remaining hostages, more than 30 have been declared dead. Hamas has also been holding captive two Israeli civilians since 2014 and 2015, and the bodies of two soldiers killed in 2014.
