The Israeli army is “methodically” advancing in the Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister said on Monday. “The IDF has expanded its land access to the Gaza Strip, it is doing this in measured and very powerful stages, methodically progressing,” Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Israeli Army Representative Jonathan Conricus confirmed this on Tuesday morning. that “Israeli troops are in different parts of the northern Gaza Strip.” “We brought heavy armored vehicles, tanks, armored fighting vehicles, bulldozers,” he added, saying he understands the (humanitarian) situation is difficult, “but it’s not our fault.”
The Israeli offensive is putting Gaza’s 2.4 million residents to the test, subject to continuous bombing and, since October 9, a “total siege” depriving them of water, food and “electricity.”
“Hamas is the enemy, not the civilian population”
The IDF is striking “all parts of the Gaza Strip” but is mainly focusing “on the northern part, Hamas’ center of gravity,” the spokesman said. “We are targeting their commanders, we are attacking their infrastructure,” says Jonathan Conricus, insisting that “Hamas is the enemy, not the civilian population. »
Israeli army confident that he hit “300 targets” on Monday – weapons depots, missile launches and hiding places – Hamas, which Israel, the United States and the European Union consider a “terrorist” organization. She also says she has killed “dozens of terrorists.” According to the Palestinian Wafa news agency, Israeli strikes continued overnight from Monday to Tuesday in several areas of the Gaza Strip.
Hamas, for its part, says Israeli bombings have killed 8,306 people, mostly civilians, since October 7. A report that we cannot confirm. “Almost 70% of those killed were children and women. This cannot be “collateral damage,” lamented the head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini.
The latter called for “an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, which has become a matter of life and death for millions of people.” But this possibility was completely ruled out by Benjamin Netanyahu. “Calls for a ceasefire are calls to surrender to Hamas. This will not happen,” he said. For Washington, its ally, a ceasefire is not “the right answer at this time,” said John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, who instead advocates “humanitarian pauses.”
Since October 21, only 117 trucks carrying humanitarian aid have arrived in Gaza. The Israeli Defense Ministry body that oversees civilian activities in the Palestinian territories said on Tuesday that 39 more trucks had arrived on Monday.
Hostage released
In addition to destroying Hamas, with these achievements the IDF also hopes to find and free the 238 hostages still in the hands of the terrorist organization. One of them, soldier Ori Megidish, was freed during a ground operation, the Israeli army said on Monday, adding that she was doing well and had been reunited with her family. Hamas released four women last week.
In Israel, more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, were killed on the day of the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, mid-Sabbath, according to authorities. Hundreds of Hamas militants entered Israeli soil from the Gaza Strip to carry out the deadliest attack since Israel’s creation in 1948, causing deep trauma for Israeli society.
Source: Le Parisien
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