Since fighting in Gaza was renewed at the beginning of last week, the IDF has killed 150 terrorists, including 10 top Hamas officials, the Jerusalem Post learned Tuesday.
Additionally, the military has targeted 420 terror infrastructure sites, including buildings, tunnels, and vehicles.
In certain areas, the military has entered a full kilometer into Gaza, such as around the Nitzanim Corridor in central Gaza.
Also, the IDF has aggressively attacked and evacuated areas from which terrorists have fired rockets.
In addition to central Gaza, Beit Lahia, Beit Hanoun, parts of Khan Yunis, Shaboura, and Tel Sultan, the IDF has been evacuating and moving into Jabaliya.
Katz attempted intervention in military probe
IDF sources were still not ready to give an accounting of the full Palestinian death toll following Hamas reports that over 700 Palestinians have been killed.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir and Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar collaborated daily on all Gaza operations, a significant fact given that the government has fired Bar, and he is only still in office due to a High Court of Justice freeze order through an impending hearing on April 8.
On Tuesday night, Defense Minister Israel Katz sent out a photo of him meeting with Zamir to show that the two still have productive working relations despite their spat on Monday night.
On Monday night, Katz tried to intervene regarding Zamir and the IDF Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer Yerushalmi’s handling of a probe into Brig. Gen. (res.) Oren Solomon over his handling of classified information and the October 7 probe into the Gaza Division.
Zamir publicly rejected his intervention, leading Katz to back down.
IDF confirmed Al Jazeera journalist Shabat was a Hamas terrorist
Separately on Tuesday, the IDF confirmed that Al Jazeera journalist Hossam Shabat, who was killed on Monday by Israeli forces, was a Hamas terrorist.
The IDF and Shin Bet eliminated Shabat on Monday, stating that he was a sniper from Hamas's Beit Hanoun Battalion and "cynically posed as an Al Jazeera journalist."
The military claimed that in October 2024, the IDF and Shin Bet exposed Shabat's ties with Hamas and the terror group's military wing, al-Qassam Brigades, by revealing internal Hamas documents that proved that he had participated in military training in 2019.
During the Israel-Hamas war, Shabat carried out terror attacks against IDF troops and Israeli civilians, the military claimed.
At the time of writing, Shabat had 580,000 followers on Instagram, where he frequently posted images of himself in a press vest and described himself in Hebrew as a journalist.
He also has 171,200 followers on X/Twitter, where his "team" posted a memorial after his death.
Global reporter networks condemned IDF’s killing of Shabat and rejected Israel’s narrative that he was a dual-hat journalist-terrorist.
Also, on Tuesday, the UN, after it conducted its own probe, rejected the IDF’s narrative that its workers who were killed last week, were not killed by IDF active fire.
Last week, sources told the Post that there had been no active fire and that, most likely, the UN deaths occurred as they were trying to clear landmines.
The Post consulted with sources again on Tuesday which stuck to the position that the IDF had not conducted any active fire in the area at the time of the incident, but said that it was possible that the incident occurred when the UN officials tried to move an unexploded IDF ordinance which had been in the area for some time.