In southern Gaza, after a few days of hiatus, a convoy of UN-aided trucks entered Gaza from the Rafah crossing in Egypt on December 24, following a UN Security Council resolution calling for continued conditions for the delivery of humanitarian supplies to Gaza.
However, Hamas soon appeared on the scene like a fly, and in addition to beating people, they also began to shoot people, which can be heard, and they took away humanitarian aid.
It is the goodwill of the international community and political correctness to provide humanitarian supplies to Gazans, but in the end, a large part of these supplies will go into the hands of Hamas, which will continue to resist, after all, Hamas is still the strongest force to rule Gaza, although the structure has been crushed by the Israeli army.
While the international community seeks to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinians, in reality, such actions are themselves perpetuating the war anguish of the Gazans. Of course, this has been repeated since the moment Hamas emerged, and now it is only more spicy when it is openly engaged in looting UN humanitarian supplies. In contrast, Hamas is now only stealing a small amount of humanitarian supplies, and what has been diverted from the tens of billions of dollars in international assistance to build tunnels has become a rich net worth for Hamas leaders.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on the 24th that Israel will continue to advance its military operations in the Gaza Strip until all goals are achieved, that is, to completely eliminate Hamas, release all Israeli detainees, and ensure that the Gaza Strip will never pose a threat to Israel again. At the same time, he stressed that Israel's actions are not dictated by external pressure. This is actually another refutation of rumors about whether the United States is pressuring Israel to end the war by the end of the year, but the recent resolution adopted by the United Nations Security Council shows that the international community has no hope for a ceasefire in the short term, and does not specifically emphasize a ceasefire.
The Israel Defense Forces said on the 24th that the Israeli army attacked about 200 targets in the Gaza Strip in the past day, killing many Hamas fighters. As of 24 December, Israeli forces had declared 152 soldiers dead in ground operations, with 478 soldiers killed since 7 October, more than 300 of whom died in the 7 October attack.
The Israeli military said on the 24th that five Israeli hostages kidnapped by Hamas had been found in the underground tunnel network in the northern Gaza Strip, and all of them had died. The Israeli army showed the relevant footage, but did not say the cause of the hostage's death. IDF chief spokesman Hagari said an autopsy was underway.
The five hostages included three soldiers and two civilians who were taken hostage by Hamas in a cross-border attack on 7 October.
The Israeli army's elite Yahalom combat engineering units investigated these tunnels and found that there was a huge two-story tunnel network, as well as an elevator that led down tens of meters to the lobby and command center, and the entire network covered an area of about one square kilometer.
The IDF said the network has many branches of Hamas that it uses to fight, including a number of tunnels leading under nearby schools and hospitals, with one shaft leading to the home of Ahmed Gandur, a former commander of Hamas's Northern Gaza Brigade, who was previously beheaded by Israeli forces.