According to the Times of Israel, on December 2, local time, the Israel Defense Forces announced that a senior military officer who disappeared on October 7 had been confirmed dead. The officer, Colonel Assaf Hami, a 41-year-old commander of Israel's Southern Brigade of the Gaza Division, is currently being held by Hamas.
Screenshot of the Times of Israel report.
Hamas captured about 240 people in the clashes that erupted on October 7, and the IDF has been claiming that Colonel Hami had been abducted due to security concerns, according to the report. In recent days, based on the latest intelligence and findings, the IDF has confirmed the death of several people detained by Hamas, including Colonel Hami, on 7 October.
According to the report, Colonel Hami was the highest-ranking Israeli officer captured by Hamas. According to the previously released list, three other senior Israeli officers were killed in the October 7 clashes: Colonel Jonathan Steinberg, 42-year-old commander of the Nahal Brigade, Colonel Roy Levy, 44-year-old commander of the "Multidimensional Forces", and Leon Barr, a 53-year-old retired officer of the "Jewish and Samaritan Territory Division".
Israeli forces airstrikes on refugee camps after resuming military operations.
More than 100 people have died.
On 2 December, the Israeli army continued to attack a number of targets in the Gaza Strip. According to the official Palestinian news agency "Wafa", more than 100 people have been killed by Israeli military planes that day when a house for displaced people was bombed by Israeli military aircraft in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. There is no response from the Israeli side to this question at the moment.
The Palestinian health department in the Gaza Strip issued a statement on the same day, saying that since the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on October 7, the Israeli army's military operations in the Gaza Strip have killed 15,207 Palestinians and injured more than 40,000. Seventy per cent of the dead and wounded were women and children.
Since the resumption of Israeli military operations on December 1, 193 people have been killed and 650 injured in the Gaza Strip, the statement said.
Saleh Aluri, deputy chairman of the Politburo of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said on the 2nd that Hamas would not exchange detainees with Israel before the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
In an interview with Qatar's Al Jazeera that night, Aluri said Hamas had released all the women and minors it was holding. The remaining detainees include Israeli soldiers and adult males serving in the Israeli army, in exchange for whom they will be subject to the "new standard".
According to Israel Today, the previously reached temporary ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip expired at 7 o'clock local time on December 1 (13 o'clock Beijing time on the 1st), and neither Israel nor Hamas announced the extension of the ceasefire agreement. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued a statement saying that fighting with Hamas in the Gaza Strip had resumed.
Ceasefire negotiations have reached an impasse.
The Israeli negotiating team withdrew from Qatar.
The Israeli Prime Minister's Office issued a statement on the 2nd, saying that due to the deadlock in the negotiations, under the order of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the head of the Israeli Intelligence and Secret Service (Mossad), David Barneya, ordered the negotiating team in Doha, Qatar to withdraw and return to Israel.
The statement said Hamas had not fulfilled some of the terms of the interim ceasefire agreement, such as the release of all children and women.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (data map).
*: Zhonghong Network Comprehensive.