The war between Israel and Islamist group HamasIt reaches its 86th day on the last day of 2023, an escalation that promises to extend for several months next year as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza strip it gets worse and worse.
This Sunday, Israeli troops continued an air, land and sea offensive along the entire length of the Palestinian enclave: in the north, they consolidated control, and in the south, where Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in the region is believed to be hiding Take off, attacks increased .
On the outskirts of Gaza City, “a vehicle with terrorists inside approached the soldiers,” so it was attacked from the air, and the people on board were “eliminated,” a military spokesman said.
In Beit Lahia, also in the north of the enclave, Israeli forces “identified three terrorists” entering a building that was bombed, he added.
Nearby, in the Shati refugee camp, Israeli troops “they found a kindergarten with terrorist infrastructure, including explosive devices” which were neutralized, the source explained, adding that a fighter jet attacked a military complex “from which the terrorists activated an explosive device.”
In the south of the enclave, soldiers discovered two tunnel openings and in Khan Yunis, the main stronghold of the militants in the area, “they identified three terrorists and carried out an airstrike in which one of them was killed. The remaining two terrorists were then killed.” between buildings with a portable anti-tank rocket launcher and an Israel Defense Forces tank fired at them,” a military spokesman said.
“We give full support to our forces,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after a meeting with his cabinet where he emphasized that the state had given 9 billion shekels (2.25 billion euros) to reservists and their families.
This Sunday, after 24 hours of silence, air raid sirens sounded again in Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip, most of which have been evacuated, to warn of rocket fire from the enclave.
A senior officer who spoke on condition of anonymity told Military Radio on Sunday that his troops were unlikely to be able to completely destroy the militias’ rocket-launching capabilities in Gaza, especially short-range ones.
The war broke out on October 7 after a massive attack by Hamas that included the firing of rockets and the simultaneous infiltration of some 3,000 militia members who massacred around 1,200 people and kidnapped another 250 in towns near Gaza.
Saturday, Netanyahuhe assured that the war – which has killed 506 soldiers, 172 of them in the ground invasion – “will continue for several more months”, continuing without detailing how to free the hostages still held in the Strip or specifying what the plan was. for post-war Israel.
The Israeli military has maintained a strong air, land and sea offensive against the Palestinian enclave, which has already left more than 21,800 dead and 56,400 injured Palestinians, most of whom are children and women, with another 7,000 missing under the rubble, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, under controlled by Hamas.
Claiming that Hamas is using civilian infrastructure for its military operations, Israel has bombed homes, schools, hospitals, temples, water treatment and supply facilities, as well as telecommunications or energy facilities.
The war has also left some 1.9 million people displaced in Gaza, 85% of the Strip’s population, living in the midst of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis due to collapsing hospitals, outbreaks of epidemics and shortages of drinking water, food, medicine, electricity and fuel.
Source: Panama America
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