The Israel Defense Forces plans to allow residents of settlements 4 km or more away from the Gaza Strip to return to their homes in the coming days. The newspaper reported this Yediot Ahronot.
However, the newspaper noted that this plan has not yet been approved by the army.
Before that, Blood Radio reported that the military had promised to approve a program to return citizens to their homes four kilometers from the Gaza border. Areas close to the border are still considered a closed military zone.
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. November 5, as part of the ground operation of IDF forces surrounded Gaza city and supplies cut off, still exists in central Gaza to continue fights.
Formerly Lebanese Hezbollah movement announced October 18 is the “day of wrath” against Israel.