{"id":80399,"date":"2024-06-24T23:10:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T23:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/24\/israeli-strike-kills-health-official-gazans-say-as-gallant-visits-u-s\/"},"modified":"2024-06-24T23:10:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T23:10:04","slug":"israeli-strike-kills-health-official-gazans-say-as-gallant-visits-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/24\/israeli-strike-kills-health-official-gazans-say-as-gallant-visits-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Strike Kills Health Official, Gazans Say, as Gallant Visits U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/06\/24\/multimedia\/24mideast-crisis-ledeall-1-kgwl\/24mideast-crisis-ledeall-1-kgwl-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Israeli Strike Kills Health Official, Gazans Say, as Gallant Visits U.S.\" title=\"Israeli Strike Kills Health Official, Gazans Say, as Gallant Visits U.S.\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An Israeli strike killed a top official in charge of ambulance services in the Gaza Strip, local health officials said on Monday, as the Israeli defense minister met with top American officials in Washington about a possible new phase in the Israeli offensive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The official, Hani al-Jafarawi, who was the director of ambulance and emergency services in Gaza, was killed in a strike on a health clinic in Gaza City, the Gazan Health Ministry said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Israeli military did not respond to a request for comment. It said earlier on Monday that it had killed another man, Muhammad Salah, whom it called a Hamas operative, in Gaza City on Sunday night. It was not clear if the two men were killed in the same strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Hundreds of health care workers in Gaza have been killed by Israel\u2019s pulverizing bombing campaign or have been caught in the middle of ground combat between the Israeli military and Hamas, according to the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The meetings in the Washington area by Israel\u2019s defense minister, Yoav Gallant, with the C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, and Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken on Monday coincided with a potential shift in the military campaign signaled by Israeli officials in recent days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the intensive phase of Israel\u2019s war against Hamas was \u201cabout to end,\u201d although he made clear that Israel would not stop fighting in Gaza until Hamas was \u201celiminated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The chief of staff of Israel\u2019s military, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, also said on Sunday that Hamas\u2019s fighters in Rafah, the southern Gazan city that Israel invaded in May, after the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, were close to being crushed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe are clearly approaching the point where we can say we have dismantled the Rafah brigade,\u201d General Halevi said, adding that the brigade was \u201cdefeated not in the sense that there are no more terrorists, but in the sense that it can no longer function as a fighting unit.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/06\/24\/world\/middleeast\/israeli-strike-gallant-us.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli strike killed a top official in charge of ambulance services in the Gaza Strip, local health officials said on Monday, as the Israeli defense minister met with top American officials in Washington about a possible new phase in the Israeli offensive. 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