With businesses from street to street, from neighborhood to neighborhood, she intends to “sweep” her city Rafa the Israeli army, aiming to destabilize every enclave and every center of it Hamas in the area.

According to the plan approved by the war council in Tel Aviv, the IDF they will follow tactics similar to those they followed in Gaza City and other cities further south in the Strip, leveling everything in their path. The reactions are intense, with the US threatening her Netanyahu’s government with a cut in military aid and Egypt, which neighbors Gaza through the Rafah crossing, reacting for the first time by refusing to cooperate with Israel in providing aid, calling the Israeli intervention in Rafah an “unacceptable escalation”.

As reported by Israeli media, Tel Aviv is looking for the head of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and is looking to “dislodge” Israel in every way, considering that his destruction will sufficiently weaken the power of the Palestinian organization, which will eventually lead to its disintegration. her.

The operation that has been launched in Rafah was based on precisely this rationale and was designed with the primary objective of locating the Hamas strongman who is believed to have planned and directed the October 7, 2023 attack on Israelwith hundreds of civilians dead and dozens of hostages.

However, in the last 24 hours the information of the Israeli secret services seems to turn the tide, with unknown, for now, consequences on the general military and strategic planning of the Israeli operations in Gaza. More specifically, the Israeli secret services now estimate that the Yahya Sinuar he is not in Rafah, where Israel has launched ground operations to track down the Hamas leader and his staff, but is hiding in tunnels in the area Khan Yunisfrom where the Israeli army withdrew about a month ago.

On Saturday morning, the IDF ordered the evacuation of 150,000 residents of Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip from the refugee camp ahead of a new IDF entry for another operation in the area, however international media reports that thousands of civilians are trapped and not they can be moved to other areas.

According to Palestinian sources, the IDF has already begun to operate in Jabalia, with targeted bombardment, despite the fact that the already displaced civilian population has not left.

Battles are also taking place in the city Zeitoun, where the Israeli army returned. Reports even speak of fierce fighting, with at least five Israeli soldiers killed so far.

All indications are that the IDF’s ground operation in Rafah will be carried out with the same strategy followed in Gaza City, which was literally leveled.