The Palestinian Hamas movement is heading towards a humanitarian crisis. In an interview with a Spanish newspaper about this A B C said Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman and captain Roni Kaplan.
According to him, Hamas is seeking a crisis in which the international community will put pressure on Israel and the Jewish state will be forced to give up dismantling the movement’s infrastructure.
Before this, US President Joe Biden statedHe said the implementation of Israel’s agreements with the Palestinian group Hamas on the release of hostages and a temporary ceasefire was only the beginning of the process, but so far everything was going well.
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 We cut off Gaza city from its food source.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu promised to destroy It is Hamas.