The conflict enters its thirteenth week and the fighting continues.
Israeli tanks pushed deeper into Gaza's central and southern neighborhoods on Saturday, supported by heavy air and artillery fire, residents said, launching a deadly offensive that leveled much of the enclave, and Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated that on Saturday evening it would last for months.
In a televised address as the war entered its 13th week, the Israeli prime minister said the army was fighting “on all fronts” and would win Months to achieve victory. He also stated that at the end of the conflict, the “Philadelphia Corridor,” a narrow, 14 km-long buffer zone between southern Gaza and the Egyptian border, should be under Israeli control. Fighting on Saturday was concentrated in Al Boureij, Nouseirat, Maghazi and Khan Younès in central and southern Gaza, where the Israeli army is advancing under the cover of intense air strikes.
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According to Gaza health authorities, the bombings killed 165 Palestinians and injured 250 others in 24 hours. Since the start of the war The death toll is 21,672 and more than 56,000 injured. The Israeli army, in turn, says it has lost 170 soldiers since its ground offensive began on October 20. After the attack on the Palestinian Islamist movement that left around 1,200 dead in the south of the Jewish state on October 7, the Israeli government vowed to destroy Hamas.
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The Israeli army then launched a large-scale air and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip that has now killed more than 21,000 Palestinians in two and a half months, according to authorities in the Hamas-run enclave. The Israeli army announced this on Saturday destroyed tunnels and killed several Palestinian fighters in attacks on a Hamas military intelligence center and an Islamic Jihad command center in Khan Yunis.
She also reported in a press release about fighting in the north of the Gaza Strip in which, according to her, 15 Palestinian fighters were killed and weapons stocks were confiscated. Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad said they destroyed or damaged additional Israeli tanks and other armored vehicles.