Israeli Strike Kills Health Official, Gazans Say, as Gallant Visits U.S.

[Pelican Press 0]

******** Strike ****** Health Official, Gazans Say, as Gallant Visits U.S.

An ******** strike ******* a top official in charge of ambulance services in the Gaza Strip, local health officials said on Monday, as the ******** defense minister met with top ********* officials in Washington about a possible new phase in the ******** offensive.

The official, Hani al-Jafarawi, who was the director of ambulance and emergency services in Gaza, was ******* in a strike on a health clinic in Gaza City, the Gazan Health Ministry said.

The ******** military did not respond to a request for comment. It said earlier on Monday that it had ******* another man, Muhammad Salah, whom it called a ****** operative, in Gaza City on Sunday night. It was not clear if the two men were ******* in the same strike.

Hundreds of health care workers in Gaza have been ******* by *******’s pulverizing ******** campaign or have been caught in the middle of ground combat between the ******** military and ******, according to the Health Ministry.

The meetings in the Washington area by *******’s 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 ******** officials in recent days.

On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the intensive phase of *******’s war against ****** was “about to end,” although he made clear that ******* would not stop fighting in Gaza until ****** was “eliminated.”

The chief of staff of *******’s military, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, also said on Sunday that ******’s fighters in Rafah, the southern Gazan city that ******* invaded in May, after the ******-led attacks on Oct. 7, were close to being crushed.

“We are clearly approaching the point where we can say we have dismantled the Rafah brigade,” General Halevi said, adding that the brigade was “defeated not in the sense that there are no more terrorists, but in the sense that it can no longer function as a fighting unit.”

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