Israel has turned 30% Gaza Strip on a buffer zone / day

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also ordered security forces to leaders and negotiating delegations to continue pressure on « HamS » to achieve its captured hostage release.

On March 18, Israel resumed air and land attacks on the Gaza Strip, ending two months’ ceasefire. The UN has announced that since the end of the ceasefire, 500,000 Palestinian Gaza has become displaced persons.

The Israeli army said it has « achieved complete operational control over several important areas and roads in the Gaza Strip ».

« About 30% of the Gaza Strip area is now definitely a perimeter of operational security, » the army said.

It added that since March 18, Israel’s air strikes have hit « about 1,200 terrorist purposes » and that « more than 100 targeted liquidations have been implemented ».

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Kacs said this month that the army makes the Gaza band « smaller and isolated ».

Israeli officials have repeatedly stated that military pressure is the only way to force Hamas to release 58 hostages still kept in the Gaza Strip.