Day 450 - ToI reports from semi-permanent IDF bases inside Gaza
The Times of Israel Daily Briefing
The Times of Israel
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🗓️ 29 December 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to The Times of Israel's Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what's happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today's show.
Some 240 suspected terror operatives were detained during the operation against Hamas at northern Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital, including the medical center’s director and 15 terrorists who participated in the October 7, 2023, onslaught on southern Israel. Fabian sheds light on the operation, which involved the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit.
Israeli air defenses on Saturday intercepted two rockets fired from Gaza’s Beit Hanoun toward the Jerusalem area, an increasingly rare occurrence after nearly 15 months of war. The IDF said both rockets were successfully intercepted, with no injuries or damage reported. Overnight, Israeli fighter jets struck the launchers used by the Palestinian terrorists. We hear what surprised Fabian about this rocket attack.
Air defenses intercepted a missile fired from Yemen that triggered sirens in the Jerusalem, southern West Bank and Dead Sea areas early Saturday morning, the military said, in the sixth such overnight attack on the center of the country in less than two weeks. Along with Israel's defense array, the Thaad system was used for the second time, after its use early Friday morning. Fabian explains how it complements Israel's air defense systems.
Fabian was deep in the Gaza Strip last week and writes that everything the Israel Defense Forces has established in the Netzarim Corridor is reportedly temporary, "But the reality on the ground in this zone bisecting the Gaza Strip indicates that the IDF will remain here for the foreseeable future." In the second half of the program, we discuss the massive zone and the more than a dozen small military outposts stationed there.
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Discussed articles include:
IDF completes raid on north Gaza hospital, says some 240 terror suspects arrested
IDF intercepts rare 2 long-range rockets fired from Gaza at Jerusalem area
IDF downs missile from Yemen as sirens blare in Jerusalem, Dead Sea area
In Gaza’s Netzarim Corridor, IDF establishes temporary bases for an indefinite stay
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IMAGE: Inside an IDF forward operating base in the Netzarim Corridor in the central Gaza Strip, December 26, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Times of Israel's daily briefing. |
| 0:08.2 | Today is Sunday, December 29th, Day 450 of the war. |
| 0:13.0 | Amanda Borchelle, Dan, here with our military reporter, Immanuel Fabian. |
| 0:16.7 | Hi, Manny. |
| 0:17.7 | Thanks for joining me on this Hanukkah Day. |
| 0:19.7 | Hi, Amanda. |
| 0:20.7 | Chag Samach. |
| 0:30.8 | The IDF wrapped up a large-scale operation against Chamas at northern Gaza's Kamal-ad-Wan hospital in the surrounding area. |
| 0:37.4 | Mani will shed light on the flashpoint operation and explain what is happening on the ground in Gaza, even as two long-range rockets |
| 0:40.2 | headed toward Jerusalem last night just before sand down. We'll also talk about the spade of |
| 0:45.5 | hootty rockets and how the THAAD defense system was deployed for the first time in Israel. |
| 0:51.5 | Manny was in the Netsarim corridor last week, and in the second half, we're going |
| 0:55.7 | to talk about how the IDF appears to be hunkering down there for the foreseeable future. All this |
| 1:01.8 | and much, much more when we're back. |
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