Israel says ‘Gaza is burning’ as it launches ground assault
Jerusalem/Cairo (Reuters) – Israel announced on Tuesday that the long -awaited ground operation has begun to the city of Gaza and “Gaza is burning”.
A Israeli military official said that Israeli defense forces have started the main stage of the ground operation of the ground operation, the main city center in the settlement, where Israel ordered to escape from hundreds of thousands of residents.
The army gave a few first details, but his troops began to “remove the Hamas terrorist infrastructure in Gaza city”. Residents should go.
“Gaza is burning,” Defense Minister Israel sent to Katz X. “IDF is struck by iron fist in the terror infrastructure, and the IDF soldiers are bravely fighting to release the hostages and create conditions for the defeat of Hamas.”
Residents, in the last two days, the city’s bombardment has increased dramatic, dozens of houses destroyed more heavy explosions and coastal bombings in the tanks and planes participated in the sea boats, he said.
Dik We launched an important operation in Gaza, Net Netanyahu said at the beginning of the testimony at the court at an ongoing corruption hearing.
Rubio supports us for Israel’s hard line
Visiting on Monday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio offered a prominent support for the Israeli government’s decision to abandon cease -fire talks and to use the force to break down Hamas.
“We must be prepared for the possibility that it will not be, Rub Rubio said when the United States wanted to see a diplomatic end of the war. As the only way to finish the war, Hamas approved his request for Hamas to deliver his weapons and release all the remaining hostages at once.
Gaza Health officials, early hours of the attack in the city of Gaza at least 24 people reportedly died.
Netanyahu ordered the army to seize Gaza City, which he described as the last castle of the militant group, which launched the October 2023 surprise attack on Israel last month.
Most of the city of Gaza had already been wasted in the early weeks of the war in 2023, but it returned to homes among about 1 million Palestinian remains. Forcing them means that almost the entire Gaza population now calls Israel as a human field, it will be limited to camps along the southern coast.
For weeks, the Israeli forces were operating at the foot of the Gaza City and approaching the center of the city. An Israeli security official briefing journalist is expected to leave Gaza City on Monday, approximately 320,000 people are expected to leave Gaza City and 650,000 people are thought to remain.
It was not possible to verify the numbers independently. He escapes from caravans with thousands of calm things.
Israel’s political leaders say the attack is part of the plan to dismantle Hamas as a political and armed organization. Netanyahu insisted that the group would leave their weapons and not have a future role in Gaza.
The Israeli army has corrected buildings in Gaza City suburbs in recent weeks, including high -rise towers.
The United Nations and the countries criticizing the tactics of Israel say that they mean forcibly mass relocation and that the conditions in the crowded southern regions, where residents are sent, are terrible, with little food.
Some Israeli military commanders also expressed their concerns about the operation and said that during the October 2023 attacks, Hamas could endanger the rest of the hostages caught in Hamas and a “death trap” for the troops.
The Israeli army calls Netanyahu to make a ceasefire
Chief of General Staff Eyal Zamir, at the Netanyahu meeting on Sunday, the Gaza city attack with security chiefs in the attack, Netanyahu’yu and one of the details of one Israeli officials called to make a cease -fire agreement.
The pledge families gathered on Monday, as the news of concentrated strikes in Gaza, outside the house of Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
Anat Angrest, who is still among the 20 hostages believed to be alive, said, “Our loved ones in Gaza are bombed by IDF under the orders of the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister decided to send IDF soldiers to areas that can be damaged and return to live.” He said. “He’s doing everything to avoid bringing them back.”
Hamas attacked Israel in October 2023, killed 1,200 people, and took about 251 hostages. Israeli officials say that 20 of the 48 hostages in Gaza are alive.
The Gaza Ministry of Health said that Israel’s military attack against later Hamas killed more than 64,000 Palestinians, and some of the enclavi of a global hunger monitor suffered from famine. Israel is already controlling about 75% of Gaza.
(Reporting by Steven Scheer and Maayan Lubell in Jerusalem;
