The possibility of a ground attack in southern Gaza, which Israeli media characterize as expected, will be a significant escalation of the war
Israel threatens to extend the war in southern Gaza after the “wreck” with Hamas in talks in Qatar to extend the truce. The possibility of a ground attack on southern Gaza, which Israeli media characterize as expected, will be significant escalation war’s.
The Israeli Defense Minister Joab Gallant announced on Saturday that the IDF was striking areas of Gaza “which they had not yet struck since the beginning of the war” warning senior Hamas commanders in the southern part of the Strip, the Times of Israel reports.
“In the last two days we have been operating in areas where we did not operate in the last month and this will intensify. This action will reach every region that is needed. Let’s go for the complete elimination of the Hamas organization”Gallant said, speaking to reservists near the Gaza border.
“We had very good hits in the first month,” he said.
The Israeli minister said the commanders of the Hamas battalions in northern Gaza “already know very well what the IDF can do.”
“But also the commanders of the Hamas battalions in Khan Younis and Rafah (southern areas) they understand very well what happened to others,” he pointedly noted, with the Times of Israel reporting that the Israeli military is expected to expand ground operations in southern Gaza.
THE Israeli intelligence agency Mossad announced earlier on Saturday that its negotiating team based in Qatar had been ordered back to Israel as talks to extend the truce reached an “impasse”. The Mossad denounces Hamas that he did not keep the agreed terms.
The IDF carried out “extended” blows against Hamas in southern Gaza on Friday and Saturday, while calling on Palestinians to evacuate areas near the Israeli border, demonstrating that ground operations in the southern part of the Strip they were going to start soon.
In a statement on Saturday morning, the Israeli military said it carried out airstrikes against more than 400 targets throughout the Strip in the past day since the fighting resumed. Ground, air and naval forces participated in the operations.
The military announced that fighter jets had attacked on over 50 targets in the Khan Younis area in “extensive” raids in the southern part of the enclave.
For his part, the French president Emmanuel Macron called for intensified efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza.
During a press conference at the UN Climate Conference (COP28) in Dubai, Macron said thatThe situation calls for a redoubled effort to achieve a lasting ceasefire and the release of all hostages.
Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters exchanged fire on Saturday along the Israel-Lebanon border in a second day of hostilities after the collapse of the Gaza ceasefire between the Palestinian group Hamas and Israel.
Iran-backed Hezbollah said in a statement that one of its fighters had been killed, but did not say when. Three people in southern Lebanon were killed by Israeli shelling on Friday, according to Lebanon’s state-run news agency. Hezbollah said two of the dead were its fighters.
Source :Skai
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