(EFE).- The Israeli army continues its air, land and sea attacks on the Gaza Strip on the 88th day of its war against the Islamist group Hamas, while making adjustments to its troops stationed in the Palestinian enclave, where The humanitarian crisis is getting worse every day.
“In joint operations, the Israel Defense Forces' sea, air and ground forces attacked several terrorists and neutralized explosives,” an army spokesman said.
This came after Israeli troops identified militants who were “placing explosive devices along the coast of the Gaza Strip and in facilities adjacent to the coast” to detonate them against Israeli soldiers, he explained.
Israeli troops identified militants who “placed explosive devices along the Gaza Strip coast and in facilities adjacent to the coast.”
On the other hand, “three terrorists in the south of Gaza City who entered a compound” were attacked by a warplane, resulting in secondary explosions, indicating that “large quantities of weapons were stored at the compound,” he added, a spokesman.
In the south of the Palestinian enclave, in Khan Younis, where senior Hamas leaders are believed to be hiding, Israeli intelligence directed troops on a “targeted raid on operational sites where weapons were stored and terrorist activities were carried out,” he said. .
There were also military operations in the center of the strip: in the Burei refugee camp, Israeli troops found several rocket launchers next to a UNRWA school, in other places they identified a weapons production facility, trenches with long-range rocket launchers, which were dismantled.
Israel is trying to adjust the deployment of its troops in Gaza in the face of a war that will last until 2024, involving adjustments to the more than 360,000 reserve troops mobilized after the war broke out in October.
Therefore, the army will withdraw several brigades, meaning thousands of soldiers will be sent home. However, it is not clear whether this is a routine rotation or could mark the path to another phase of the war in which a total of 507 soldiers died, or 170 of them fell during the land invasion.
The war broke out on October 7 after a massive attack by Hamas that included the firing of rockets and the simultaneous infiltration of about 3,000 militiamen who massacred about 1,200 people and kidnapped another 250 in towns near Gaza.
The war has also led to the displacement of around 1.9 million people in the Gaza Strip, 85% of the Gaza Strip's population, who are living amid an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
Since then, the Israeli army has been waging a powerful offensive by air, land and sea against the Palestinian enclave, where nearly 22,000 Palestinians are already dead and thousands more are missing in the rubble under Hamas control, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
Arguing that Hamas is using civilian infrastructure for its military operations, Israel has bombed homes, schools, hospitals, temples, archaeological sites, water treatment and distribution facilities, and telecommunications or energy facilities.
The war has also led to the displacement of around 1.9 million people in Gaza, 85% of the Gaza Strip's population, who are living amid an unprecedented humanitarian crisis due to the collapse of hospitals, outbreaks of epidemics and lack of drinking water. Food, medicine, electricity and fuel.
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