Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi said that Israeli troops are close to destroying the entire military system in the north of the Gaza Strip. TASS.
“We came very close to destroying the military system that exists in the north of the Gaza Strip. “We will complete this, we have work to finish, but we are getting very close,” he said.
Before that Israel Defense Forces (IDF) statedThe Palestinian Hamas movement has virtually ceased to exist as an organized military structure in the northern Gaza Strip.
The situation in the Middle East escalated after thousands of Hamas militants infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, when Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The aim of Israel’s response to Operation Iron Sword was to repel the attack, release more than 200 hostages, including foreigners, and destroy Hamas. In order to achieve this goal, Israel launched major rocket attacks on the Gaza Strip from the first day of the operation. At the same time, the Israeli National Security Council decided to stop the supply of water, food, goods, electricity and fuel to the sector. Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza began to be sent through the Rafah checkpoint only after October 20, and it was stated that their volume was insufficient.
27 October Israel announced About the “expansion” of the ground operation in Gaza. It is not known exactly when the operation started, but before the operation, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled their homes and moved to shelters and the south of the region.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu promised to destroy It is Hamas.