Israel currently controls 75% of the territory of the enclave. According to a high military command, “preliminary operations” began.
The army of Israel on Thursday intensified his action on the city of Loop, through various operations and bombings. The objective is to take what it presents as the last great bastion of the Islamist movement Hamas In the Palestinian enclave.
Five divisions must participate in the offensive, following the 60,000 reserves to which he summoned for the action. The new push occurs when Mediators -Eeuu, Egypt and Qatar– They are still waiting for the formal response of the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to a truce proposal. This would allow Israeli hostages to be released and was accepted by Hamas.
Israel’s army advances on Gaza
“We are going to intensify our bombings against Hamas in Gaza. We have started the Preliminary operations“The Army spokesman announced on Wednesday Effie Defrin. Thus, he added that “our forces are on the periphery of the city. We are going to create the conditions to bring hostages“
Gaza today
At the moment, 49 hostages are still captive, of which 27 are dead, according to the army. They are the remaining of the 251 hostage group that Hamas took in their surprise attack on October 7, 2023 in Israel, trigger for the contest.
Israel currently controls 75% of the territory of the enclave, where its reprisal operation caused tens of thousands of dead. For more than a week, several city neighborhoods suffer intense bombing of aviation and artillery. Among the most punished are Zeitún and Sabra.
The bombings continued this Thursday, according to several witnesses they told AFP and many inhabitants fled west and south. “Hamas today is not before. Being an organized military terrorist organization has been reduced to a weakened and trouble,” Defrin says.
He also reported that from the middle of May, “high responsible (of the organization) and some 2,000 terrorists” were eliminated in addition to five divisions operate in the field.
Israel summoned 60,000 reservists before an offensive in Gaza City
The army of Israel He is calling about 60,000 reservists before a planned land offensive to capture and occupy the entire city of Loop. It would be to meet at the service in September.
A military officer said the reservists would be presented to the service in September and that most of the troops mobilized for the offensive They would be active duty personnel.
The troops were already operating in the areas of Zeitoun and Javelia as part of the preparations for a plan approved in the last hours by the Minister of Defense, Israel Katz. The same will be presented to the security cabinet at the end of this week.
The Haaretz newspaper summoned the Minister of Defense Katz saying Tuesday: “Once the operation is completed, Gaza will change his face and will no longer look like in the past.”
Source: Ambito
