The Israel Defense Forces’ military campaign in the north of the Gaza Strip continues, while the advance is underway in the southern part: as army spokesman Jonathan Conricus announced on CNN, “we have not yet completely defeated them militarily in the north, but we have made great progress.” made.”
“From the beginning, we told Israeli civilians and anyone who would listen to us around the world that, unfortunately, the fight against Hamas would take time,” he added, speaking of “a difficult operation in difficult terrain “We are facing a very determined enemy who has no problem sacrificing civilians for the military cause.”
Conricus then rejected allegations from humanitarian organizations that civilians gathered in the southern part of the Gaza Strip were not being given enough time to reach safety to escape the Israeli advance, and reiterated that every effort was being made to protect civilians: “If Hamas had positioned itself outside the urban areas and confronted us from there, the civilian population certainly would not have been involved. But Hamas didn’t do that,” he concluded.