Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz says that the military will expand their work in Gaza and will benefit from “large areas” on the territory – they include them in what he described as “security zones”.
In a statement on Wednesday Katz said the extended operation Height to “destroy and clear the area of terrorists and terrorist infrastructure” and will require a large -scale evacuation of the Palestinians.
This comes after local hospitals said at least 15 Palestinians had been killed in the territory overnight.
The feeling that a new big offensive of Israel is emerging in Gaza, with reports that the Israeli forces have begun to act in Rafa overnight.
This week, the military in Israel ordered approximately 140,000 people in Rafa to leave their homes and issued new evacuation orders for parts of North Gaza.
Israel has already greatly expanded the buffer zone around the edge of the gas during the war and seized control over a corridor to cut the ground through its center.
The hostage forum and missing families in Israel have said they are “horrified to wake up” on the news of the extended military operation. In a statement, the group called on the Israeli government to prioritize the provision of the release of all hostages still held in Gaza.
Israel launched its updated Gaza offensive on March 18, accusing Hamas of rejecting a new proposal in the United States to extend the cessation of fire and release the 59 hostages still held in Gaza.
Hamas, for his part, accused Israel of breaching the original deal they agreed to in January.
The humanitarian situation in Gaza has been dramatically deteriorating in recent weeks, with Israel deciding to allow help in the Gaza Strip since March 2 – the most long blocking of assistance since the start of the war.
Last month, the UN announced that it was reducing its operations in Gaza, one day after eight Palestinian medics, six first answers to the UN Civil Protection and UN employee and a UN employee were killed by the Israeli forces in the southern gasS
The Israeli military launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 were taken hostage.
More than 50 399 people were killed in Gaza during the subsequent war, according to Hamas Health Ministry.