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Allowing the payments — billions of dollars over roughly a decade — was a gamble by Mr. Netanyahu that a steady flow of money would maintain peace in Gaza, the eventual launching point of the Oct. 7 attacks, and keep Hamas focused on governing, not fighting.
The Qatari payments, while ostensibly a secret, have been widely known and discussed in the Israeli news media for years. Mr. Netanyahu’s critics disparage them as part of a strategy of “buying quiet,” and the policy is in the middle of a ruthless reassessment following the attacks. Mr. Netanyahu has lashed back at that criticism, calling the suggestion that he tried to empower Hamas “ridiculous.”
A lieutenant colonel from the Israeli army was killed last night.
The number of officers killed in the Israeli army was 5.
The number of Israeli soldiers killed in a single attack as a result of the ambush set up by Hamas in Gaza's Shecaiyye neighborhood increased to 9.
According to the intelligence they had, Israeli soldiers entered a building they thought was empty and came under fire.
Handmade explosives were detonated and hand grenades were thrown in the building.
After the first shot, other soldiers who went in for support also came under fire.
There are also senior commanders among the dead soldiers.
Details about the death of 9 Israeli soldiers in Gaza's Shecaiyye neighborhood continue to emerge.
Accordingly, 4 Israeli soldiers entering the building were injured in the first shot.
Union commanders and other soldiers first stopped firing because they did not know the condition of the wounded, but then they began to surround the building because they were worried that these soldiers would be kidnapped.
Meanwhile, an Israeli soldier who tried to break the door died due to the explosion of the bomb trap.
Another soldier died due to fire opened from the building and grenades thrown.
Israeli commanders who arrived in the region were also killed in the conflict that lasted three hours.