Of Athena Papakosta

Israeli Armed Forces announced on Sunday that their forces began “extensive land operations” in Gauze strip insisting on the Israeli plan to expand within the Palestinian enclave.

This is the new stage of a war that lasts for 19 months and, according to the Israeli government, aims to exercise pressure on Hamas in order to liberate hostages and exterminate it.

In the last 24 hours, the Israeli Air Force has been pounding the Palestinian enclave with the Israeli army referring to a “preliminary wave of raids”, also adding that the Israeli army has hit “over 670 terrorist targets of Hamas.”

The Israeli Armed Forces insist that they have neutralized dozens of Hamas members and that they have so far destroyed “terrorist infrastructures above and under the ground”, but according to Palestinian officials at least 464 civilians, including women and children, have been killed.

The expansion of Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip coincides with the re -launch of indirect negotiations Israel and Hamas to achieve a truce in Doha, Qatar.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Sunday afternoon, was open to an agreement with Hamas, which would include the end of his army operations in the Gaza Strip, but added that the “extermination” of the “extermination” of the Palestinian and the “extermination”.

At the same time, a Hamas official, speaking to the British newspaper The Guardian, stressed that Israel remains unmoved in its positions, adding that “he demands that the hostages be released, without committing to ending the war”.

According to reports, by Sunday afternoon, no progress was recorded in the negotiations, focusing on a two -month truce, on the release of half of them about 20 living hostages.

In return, it is foreseen to release Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons as well as the removal of the exclusion of humanitarian aid in the Palestinian enclave that has been in force since the beginning of May.

For their part, according to the same information, the United States will offer strong security guarantees to ensure that there will be negotiations on the end of the war.

In its analysis, the British television network Sky News emphasized that as long as the Israeli side threatens and continues its business, Hamas has no incentive to release hostages, as she explains, it is a unique paper left. At the same time, it is noted that Israel’s occupation will force the Israeli side to defend its positions at some point by making it militarily vulnerable. Finally, according to Sky News, the displacement of civilians in a small area in Rafa will make the already tragic humanitarian situation more tragic and no one will be responsible for Israel.

Late last night, and as the “tanks of Gideon” scan the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Prime Minister’s office announced that Israel will allow “basic quantity of food” in the Palestinian enclave.