AGI – Israeli forces are bombing the Gaza Strip for the second day in a row since the end of the ceasefire with Hamas. “We are now attacking Hamas military targets throughout the Gaza Strip,” said IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus.
In the last few hours, the IDF:
Attacks on operational command centers in Gaza run by Hamas terrorists, as well as on underground sites and a military compound from which anti-tank missiles were fired at soldiers today.
Several terrorist cells eliminated… pic.twitter.com/D3AjKXTJK0
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) December 1, 2023
The Hamas-led government of the Gaza Strip has announced that 240 people have been killed in Palestinian territory since the end of the ceasefire yesterday in fighting between the Palestinian Islamist movement and Israel.
Another 650 people were injured.Hundreds of airstrikes, artillery and naval bombardments across the Gaza Strip of Gaza,” he said in a statement, adding that Israeli forces “particularly targeted Khan Younes, where dozens of houses with residents inside were destroyed.”
The fragility of an already forgotten ceasefire
TO Gazathe ceasefire that had lasted for a week it broke and Israel and Hamas have fighting resumed since Friday morning. No more exchanges of prisoners and detainees between the parties, the bombings on the Gaza Strip resumed with unusual violence, but also the Missiles were fired from the enclave. Israel and Hamas blame each other Israel has accepted responsibility for the failure of the negotiations and meanwhile Israel says it has attacked 200 military targets linked to Hamas, while the Islamist movement denounces this Death of at least 178 people in a few hours.
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The International Red Cross in the occupied territories
And now Israel is threatening Hamas with the “mother of all lessons”: according to some sources, it is planning a campaign that will last a year, perhaps even longer, with the most intense phase of the ground offensive lasting until early 2024. The strategy assumes that Israeli forces currently stationed in northern Gaza will soon advance towards the south of the enclave.
Tsahal also wants the leadership of senior Hamas leaders (Yahya Sinwar, Mohammed Deif and Marwan Issa), the disbandment of the group’s 24 battalions and the destruction of the underground tunnel network. And in the meantime, he is working on a possible post-war scenario: sources cited by Portal claim that he has told Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates of the plan to create a “buffer zone” after the fighting ends in the Strip, the attacks against his territory would commit.
Today Israel also bombed Khan Younis, urging residents to move further south: it released a map dividing the strip into hundreds of small areas, a map intended to show Palestinian civilians which areas are dangerous. Palestinians must follow the army’s orders to move from one area to another rather than prepare for a mass exodus if the army begins to advance south.
Diplomacy is desperately trying to restore the ceasefire. The pause, initially signed on November 24 for four days, was extended twice for another three days thanks to the mediation of Qatar, Egypt and the United States, through an agreement that included the release of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas in exchange for their release of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas, the release of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons and the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.
Seven days of hostage-prisoner exchanges were marked by the joy of Israeli families reunited with their freed relatives and cheers on the streets of the occupied West Bank as prisoners emerged from Israeli prisons. But now this timid glimmer of hope is behind us.
Israel, body of hostage recovered in Gaza
The Israeli military and the Shin Bet announced that they had recovered the body of hostage Ofir Tzarfati from the Gaza Strip and returned it to Israel. Tzarfati was kidnapped on October 7 while attending the Supernova music festival with his girlfriend and friends as Hamas terrorists violently attacked the Jewish state, killing 1,200 people and kidnapping over 240.
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