The Israeli army announced this Friday an “expansion” of its operations in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis and its surroundings, as part of the offensive launched after the October 7 attacks by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). “The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is expanding its activities in Khan Younis,” the army said in a statement on its website, claiming to have “eliminated” “dozens of terrorists” in operations carried out in the last day in the strip. He explained that “in one of the incidents, an aircraft spotted a terrorist with a rocket-propelled grenade running towards the military, which eliminated the terrorist with shots from a tank before he reached the armed forces.” On the other hand, the deaths of “several terrorists” in an operation against a building in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, as well as the deaths of an unspecified number of suspects in a bomb attack confirmed against another building. in the same city. The Israeli army launched an offensive against the Palestinian enclave following Hamas attacks on October 7, in which around 1,200 people were killed and nearly 240 kidnapped. Gaza authorities controlled by the Islamist group put the death toll at more than 21,300 Palestinians, adding more than 300 deaths at the hands of the Israeli army and attacks by settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
