02
Nov
He becomes the highest ranking Israeli officer to have been killed since the beginning of the war with Hamas. Lt. Col. Habka is also the 17th Israeli casualty in Gaza since the IDF launched their full-scale ground invasion on October 27. Four days into their storm on Gaza, Israel said its forces had killed "dozens" of Hamas fighters inside their sprawling network of tunnels and underground compounds. Israeli troops made "significant progress" in their ground offensive as they continued advancing deeper into the besieged enclave. And on Thursday, it was announced that Hamas' missile commander had been wiped out following a second strike on the Jabalia refuge camp.…