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A large rocket barrage fired from Gaza at the southern city of Netivot earlier today was launched from a location in the central part of the Strip from which IDF troops recently withdrew, Israeli military.

Yesterday, IDF began withdraw 36th Division from the central Gaza Strip, as part of its plans for a long war, which is expected to include smaller, targeted operations against Hamas, once its main fighting force is defeated. So Today, Hamas fired dozens of rockets from central Gaza, from an area where the 36th Division had operated previously, but not declared by the IDF as under “operational control.”

Keep Watching...The IDF’s 99th Division still remains in other areas of central Gaza, where intense fighting is currently taking place between Israeli troops and Hamas’s operatives.

At least five Iranian military advisors and a number of Syrian forces were killed in an Israeli missile strike on a building in Damascus on Saturday, Iran’s Middle East. (Israel’s war Hamas enters fourth month.)

Alleged strike targeted Mazzeh neighborhood in Syria’s capital, home to several diplomatic missions including Iranian embassy, says Syrian authorities.
Israel “launched an air attack from Golan Heights at 10:20 a.m. (local time) targeted residential building in Mazzeh neighborhood,” Syrian Ministry of Defense alleged, adding a number of buildings nearby plus vehicles around targeted building were damaged in blast, Syria’s state broadcaster reported, with civil still searching for victims trapped under the rubble.

Israel Defense Forces declined to comment incident, telling CNN, “We do not comment on foreign reports.”

1 of the dead, Hojjatollah Omidvar, was described by Iran’s News Network, is a deputy chief Quds Force intelligence unit in Syria. 1 of 5 Revolutionary Guards unit in charge of foreign operations branches.

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) identified 4-others killed, all is senior military advisors Ali Aghazadeh, Hossein Mohammadi, Saeed Karimi and Mohammad Amin Samadi.  

Their presence in Syria had “the official invitation of Syrian govt,” Iranian foreign ministry, Nasser Kanaani, noted in a statement on social media.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/20/world/ira...index.html