Franky will go in mourning for a month.
His heroes.
Bodies of 9 Iz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades members killed May 11 taken from collapsed subterranean passage, buried;
The Hamas terror group used heavy earth-moving equipment Friday to dig up the bodies of its fighters who were killed during the IDFās bombing of the terror groupās āmetroā tunnel system, used for transferring weapons and operatives during Operation Guardian of the Walls.
Aerial footage showed a digger in use to clear the area and extract a body.
The Haaretz daily reported that the bodies of nine members of Hamasā military wing, the Iz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, were pulled out of a collapsed tunnel east of Khan Younis.
The newspaper cited Gazan reports saying that the nine terrorists were killed on May 11 but the extraction of their bodies was delayed by the fighting.
Thousands then attended a joint funeral for the nine terrorists in Khan Younis.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Israel fulfilled its objective to deal Hamas a āblow it cannot imagineā by destroying the terror tunnel network it built in Gaza, adding that the military turned it into a ādeath trap.ā
Israel destroyed āa considerable proportionā of Hamasās internal tunnel routes, its āmetro,ā in which Hamas had invested vast resources, the prime minister said.
āWe harmed more than 100 kilometersā of that network, and turned it into āa death trap for the terrorists,ā Netanyahu said.
The prime minister also said that although the terror group wanted to carry out many cross-border attacks through the tunnels ā including at the tail-end of the operation ā it was thwarted by Israelās subterranean barrier, which detected and ādestroyedā the terrorists.
It could take weeks before the bodies of all the Gaza dead are pulled out of the rubble, Haaretz reported.
As well as the bodies of the terrorists killed in the tunnel network, work was underway to extract the bodies of those killed in airstrikes on buildings in Gaza.
In total, Israeli strikes killed 248 people including 66 children and teens since May 10, and wounded 1,948 others, the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry has said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Israel killed over 200 terrorists in Gaza, including 25 senior officials. The IDF also says some of the Gaza civilian fatalities were killed by the terror groupsā own rockets falling short and exploding in the Strip.
Large areas have been flattened and some 120,000 people have been displaced, according to Hamas.
The Israeli army said Gaza terrorists fired more than 4,300 rockets towards Israel, of which 90 percent were intercepted by its Iron Dome missile defense system.
The rockets killed 12 in Israel, including one child, a teenager and an Israeli soldier, with one Indian and two Thai nationals among those killed, Israeli authorities say. Some 357 people in Israel were wounded.
A major factor in the tensions that preceded Hamasās rocket fire at Jerusalem on May 10, at the start of the 11-day conflict was friction at the Temple Mount holy site, with Israeli security forces entering the compound and clashing with Palestinian rioters.
The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism, as the site of both biblical temples. It is holy to Muslims as the site of the third holiest shrine in Islam, the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
As the fragile ceasefire appeared to hold on Friday, the site again saw clashes, but an unsourced Channel 13 report said that Jews would again be allowed to visit the compound in the coming days.
Jews are usually allowed to visit the site on certain hours on weekdays, under numerous restrictions, but not to pray there.
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His heroes. Bodies of 9 Iz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades members killed May 11 taken from collapsed subterranean passage, buried;
The Hamas terror group used heavy earth-moving equipment Friday to dig up the bodies of its fighters who were killed during the IDFās bombing of the terror groupās āmetroā tunnel system, used for transferring weapons and operatives during Operation Guardian of the Walls.
Aerial footage showed a digger in use to clear the area and extract a body.
The Haaretz daily reported that the bodies of nine members of Hamasā military wing, the Iz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, were pulled out of a collapsed tunnel east of Khan Younis.
The newspaper cited Gazan reports saying that the nine terrorists were killed on May 11 but the extraction of their bodies was delayed by the fighting.
Thousands then attended a joint funeral for the nine terrorists in Khan Younis.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Israel fulfilled its objective to deal Hamas a āblow it cannot imagineā by destroying the terror tunnel network it built in Gaza, adding that the military turned it into a ādeath trap.ā
Israel destroyed āa considerable proportionā of Hamasās internal tunnel routes, its āmetro,ā in which Hamas had invested vast resources, the prime minister said.
āWe harmed more than 100 kilometersā of that network, and turned it into āa death trap for the terrorists,ā Netanyahu said.
The prime minister also said that although the terror group wanted to carry out many cross-border attacks through the tunnels ā including at the tail-end of the operation ā it was thwarted by Israelās subterranean barrier, which detected and ādestroyedā the terrorists.
It could take weeks before the bodies of all the Gaza dead are pulled out of the rubble, Haaretz reported.
As well as the bodies of the terrorists killed in the tunnel network, work was underway to extract the bodies of those killed in airstrikes on buildings in Gaza.
In total, Israeli strikes killed 248 people including 66 children and teens since May 10, and wounded 1,948 others, the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry has said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Israel killed over 200 terrorists in Gaza, including 25 senior officials. The IDF also says some of the Gaza civilian fatalities were killed by the terror groupsā own rockets falling short and exploding in the Strip.
Large areas have been flattened and some 120,000 people have been displaced, according to Hamas.
The Israeli army said Gaza terrorists fired more than 4,300 rockets towards Israel, of which 90 percent were intercepted by its Iron Dome missile defense system.
The rockets killed 12 in Israel, including one child, a teenager and an Israeli soldier, with one Indian and two Thai nationals among those killed, Israeli authorities say. Some 357 people in Israel were wounded.
A major factor in the tensions that preceded Hamasās rocket fire at Jerusalem on May 10, at the start of the 11-day conflict was friction at the Temple Mount holy site, with Israeli security forces entering the compound and clashing with Palestinian rioters.
The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism, as the site of both biblical temples. It is holy to Muslims as the site of the third holiest shrine in Islam, the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
As the fragile ceasefire appeared to hold on Friday, the site again saw clashes, but an unsourced Channel 13 report said that Jews would again be allowed to visit the compound in the coming days.
Jews are usually allowed to visit the site on certain hours on weekdays, under numerous restrictions, but not to pray there.
Hamas digs up bodies of terrorists killed in Israeli strike on tunnel network
Bodies of 9 Iz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades members killed May 11 taken from collapsed subterranean passage, buried; Jews reportedly to be allowed to visit Temple Mount in coming days
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