Israel: First steps in the Gaza offensive initiated
The goal is to « conquer Gaza » and move the population to the southern part of the area and to attack Hamas and stop the terrorist group from taking control of humanitarian aid, an Israeli official states for the newspaper.
On X announces Israel’s military, IDF, that the goal is to achieve « operational control » in Gaza.
« The IDF has over the past 24 hours began to conduct extensive attacks and mobilize troops to achieve operational control in Gaza. This is part of the preparations to expand the efforts and achieve the war’s goals – including release of hostages and dismantling the Hamas terrorist organization, » the military writes in a post.
According to Israel, the deadly attacks of recent days should be seen as part of putting increased pressure on Hamas – and if there is no progress in the negotiations on release of hostage, the next step in the large -scale offensive will be launched in the coming days, writes, writes Haaretz.
Nearly 100 people was killed in Gaza on Friday, according to hospital information, after intense Israeli bombers. In total, more than 220 lives have been extinguished in the last 24 hours. Israel claims that the goals for the raids are Hamas representatives, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised the other day to step up the war. But a large proportion of the dead are children and women.
At the same time, the hunger and the starvation threat are acute. For weeks, UN agencies have alerted that food stores gap empty and that the medical equipment is over.
Israel has blocked all humanitarian aid to Gaza since March 2, reportedly to put further pressure on Hamas whose large -scale attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 triggered the war.
