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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 472

Deir al-Balah

Palestinians collect clean drinking water at a desalination plant that now operates round the clock in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)
December 26, 2024, 11:35 am
Water desalination quietly returns to Gaza, after work by Israel and PA
Repair of Deir al-Balah plant, connected to Israel’s power grid, seen as potential roadmap for Palestinian Authority’s involvement in postwar Gaza
By AFP
Rescuers and people search building rubble for casualties following an Israeli strike on the municipality building in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on December 14, 2024. (Photo by Eyad Baba/AFP)
December 15, 2024, 12:16 am
Mayor of Gaza’s Deir al-Balah killed in strike; IDF: He was in Hamas’s military wing
Army airs video showing Hamas abusing inmates at Gaza City prison, compares treatment to that by Syria’s Assad regime; rocket fired from central Gaza lands in open area in south
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
Palestinians react to a fire after an Israeli strike on Hamas targets at Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, October 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
October 17, 2024, 8:03 pm
Gaza family recounts seeing mother, son burn after Israeli strike on Hamas targets
Israel says it targeted a Hamas command center at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, is investigating source of flames at displaced camp, possibly from a secondary explosion
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Fire after an Israeli strike, which the military said targeted a terror command center, allegedly hit a tent area in the courtyard of Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, October 14, 2024. (Abdel Kareem Hana/ AP)
October 14, 2024, 9:48 am
IDF says it hit terror center in Gaza hospital compound, is probing alleged shelter shelling
Tents set alight after Deir al-Balah strike, secondary blasts; IDF says terrorists had command center in hospital compound, looking into reports of shelling on Nuseirat school used as shelter
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Palestinian civil defense firefighters extinguish a blaze in a building in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7, 2024. (Photo by BASHAR TALEB / AFP)
October 7, 2024, 7:25 pm
IDF strikes Gaza rocket launching sites used to target Israel on Oct. 7 anniversary
Jets destroy Khan Younis launchers used in day’s second barrage; army orders civilians there to evacuate beforehand while widening similar directive in northern Strip
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Troops of the 162nd Division prepare to enter the northern Gaza Strip, in a handout photo issued October 6, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 6, 2024, 10:34 am
IDF launches new ground op in north Gaza’s Jabaliya to foil Hamas efforts to regroup
Army says preparing for evacuation of all civilians from north of Strip into expanded humanitarian zones; confirms strikes on operatives at former school, mosque in Deir al-Balah
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Workers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) hand out flour rations and other supplies to people at an UNRWA warehouse in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 12, 2023. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)
August 26, 2024, 10:36 pm
UN says humanitarian work in Gaza halted as IDF orders evacuation in Deir al-Balah
Official says personnel have been focusing operations in the area but cannot continue as military instructs civilians to leave during fight with Hamas
By AFP
Staff Sgt. Amit Tsadikov, (left) and Master Sgt. (res.) Shlomo Yehonatan Hazut, both killed fighting in Gaza. (IDF)
August 25, 2024, 6:16 pm
Two IDF soldiers killed in Gaza as troops continue to advance in center of Strip
Staff Sgt. Amit Tsadikov, 20, killed in Khan Younis, Master Sgt. Shlomo Hazut, 36, slain in Gaza City; military calls on Palestinians in small section of humanitarian zone to evacuate
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meets troops along the Philadelphi Corridor, the Egypt-Gaza border area, August 21, 2024. (Ariel Heremoni/Defense Ministry)
August 21, 2024, 7:50 pm
Gallant: IDF razed 150 tunnels on Egypt-Gaza border, defeated Hamas’s Rafah Brigade
Army says it killed dozens of gunmen and struck 30 targets, including Hamas command post in a school; urges evacuation from humanitarian area set to become ‘dangerous combat zone’
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Illustrative: This picture taken from Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip shows smoke billowing over the Hamad residential towers in Khan Younis following Israeli bombardment on August 17, 2024. (Bashar Taleb/AFP)
August 20, 2024, 5:25 am
Army says it hit PIJ operative in strike that reportedly killed Gazan mom, her 6 kids
Following death of Palestinian women and her children, including quintuplets, IDF says it used precision munition to target ‘significant Islamic Jihad terrorist’ in Deir el-Balah
By ToI Staff and Agencies
An unusually large tunnel uncovered by the IDF on the Gaza-Egypt border area, in a photo cleared for publication on August 4, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 4, 2024, 4:13 pm
IDF finds tunnel large enough for vehicles to drive through in Gaza-Egypt border area
At least 5 rockets launched from Gaza, triggering sirens near Ashdod and sparking blaze; military says it targeted Hamas cells operating out of 2 schools, Palestinians say 25 killed
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Reuters
IDF troops are seen operating in Gaza City in this handout photo from July 20, 2024. (IDF Spokesperson)
July 20, 2024, 10:52 pm
IDF says it killed many gunmen in Rafah as fighting continues throughout Gaza
Overnight strikes in central Strip said to kill 13; military says it has killed 150 terrorists in renewed Gaza City operation
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
People gather to search the rubble of a collapsed building in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on what the IDF says were Hamas operatives hiding in the Al-Jaouni UNRWA school in central Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp, July 6, 2024. (Eyad Baba / AFP)
July 6, 2024, 8:54 pm
IDF says it struck UNRWA school in Gaza used by Hamas as command center
Army says ‘great efforts’ taken to protect civilians at the scene; Hamas says strike killed 16; sirens in south as rockets fired
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
Displaced civilians flee from the east of Bureij in the central Gaza Strip due to an IDF operation in the area, on June 5, 2024. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)
June 5, 2024, 2:25 pm
Military launches fresh offensive in central Gaza’s Bureij, Deir al-Balah
IDF says it identified Hamas operatives, infrastructure in areas near border; 9 troops hurt in blast at southern army base; new unit established to protect Gaza periphery towns
By Emanuel Fabian
A makeshift shelter housing displaced Palestinians in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on May 18, 2024. (AFP)
May 20, 2024, 7:07 pm
Gazans say unmoved by death of Iranian president, who brought ‘only ruin’
Residents of Deir al-Balah complain Ebrahim Raisi did not call for a ceasefire in war with Israel, ‘never stood by us’ and so ‘means nothing to us and nothing to Gaza’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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