Israeli military says first stages of assault on Gaza City have begun
The Israeli Army said that a ground attack planned to capture and occupy the entire city of Gaza started “pre -actions” and has already a grip on its skirts.
A military spokesman said the troops already approved by Defense Minister Israel Katz on Tuesday in Zeitouun and Jabalia regions and prepared the ground for an attack on the security cabin this week.
Approximately 60,000 reserves are called to release the active task personnel for the operation at the beginning of September.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza, Gaza, are expected to be evacuated and ordered to go to the shelters in Southern Gaza.
Most Israel’s allies condemned the plan, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that “it can lead to a disaster for risks that plunges both peoples and the whole region into a permanent war cycle.”
In the meantime, the International Red Cross Committee (ICRC), Gaza’s 2.1 million population of 2.1 million more relocation and hostility “already worsen the disaster situation” risk intensifying the risk of intensifying.
The Israeli government announced its intention to conquer the entire Gaza lane after indirect negotiations with HAMAS on cease -fire and hostage release agreement.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Brigadier General Effrie Defrin, speaking on a briefing on TV on Wednesday, said that Hamas was “battered and injured after the 22 -month war.
“We will deepen the damage to Hamas in Gaza City, the castle of government and military terror for the terrorist organization.” He said: “We will deepen the damage on and below the ground in the terror infrastructure and cut off the dependence of the population to Hamas.”
However, Defrin said IDF did not “expect” to start the operation.
“We have started the preliminary actions, and now the IDF troops are holding the skirts of the Gaza City.”
Two brigade operates on the ground in Zeitouun district, where they have recently found an underground tunnel containing weapons and a third brigade in the Jabalia region.
He said that Gaza City would be warned to evacuate the civilian population for safety of the civilian population to “minimize the damage to civilians”.
Mahmud Bassal spokesman of Gaza’s Civil Defense Agency, operated by Hamas, told the AFP news agency that the situation was “very dangerous and unbearable” in the city’s Zeitouun and Sabra neighborhoods.
The agency reported that Israeli strikes and fire killed 25 people in the region on Wednesday. The Shati refugee camp in the west of Gaza City includes three children and parents bombed in the Badr region.
Defrin also said that IDF is doing everything possible to damage 50 hostages in Gaza, 20 of which are believed to be alive. His families expressed the fear that people in Gaza could be in danger with a ground attack.
If the ICRC concentrates the military activity in Gaza, he warned both Palestinian civilians and hostages.
“After months of relentless hostility and repeated displacement, people in Gaza are completely exhausted. Not further pressure they need, not more fear. No more fear, the chance of breathing. It should have access to the foundations to live in honor: food, medical and hygiene materials, clean water and safe shelter,” he said.
“The further condensation of military operations will only deepen the pain, break more families and threaten an irreversible human crisis. The lives of hostages can also be at risk.”
He immediately called for a rapid and unobstructed transition of humanitarian aid in the ceasefire and Gaza.
The mediator Qatar and Egypt are trying to make a cease -fire agreement and offered a new offer for a 60 -day ceasefire and said Hamas accepted on Monday.
Israel has not yet given an official response, but Israel officials insisted on Tuesday that they would no longer accept a partial agreement, and demanded a comprehensive agreement to see that all hostages were released.
The Israeli army launched a campaign in Gaza in response to the attack on Hamas on 7 October 2023 against Southern Israel, and about 1,200 people were killed and 251 people were hostage.
According to the Ministry of Health of the region, at least 62,122 people have been killed in Gaza since then. The figures of the Ministry are quoted as the most reliable source of statistics that have lost losses by the UN and others.
