World Courant
JERUSALEM
The struggle within the Gaza Strip might be extended, Israeli military chief Herzi Halevi stated Tuesday, brushing apart worldwide stress to stop the onslaught on the enclave and insisting that his nation’s technique contains the elimination of as many Hamas commanders as attainable to exert stress for the return of Israeli hostages.
“We’re in a struggle we stated originally could be extended. They (Hamas) have been digging right here (the tunnels) for years for protection, and that isn’t dismantled in per week or a month,” Halevi claimed whereas inspecting his forces on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
The Israeli military launched a floor offensive within the Jabalia refugee camp and its surrounding areas on Might 12, which was expanded three days later amid “fierce battles’’ with Palestinian resistance teams.
Whereas Halevi didn’t present a selected timeline for the cessation of the struggle on Gaza, he had beforehand stated in January that the battle would proceed all through 2024.
“The mission is to kill as many (Hamas) commanders as attainable, as many, to destroy the infrastructure (in Gaza),” he added.
“This stress may even assist us to deliver hostages alive and we’re prepared to hold out harmful and sophisticated operations to deliver the our bodies of our hostages again to be buried in Israel,” he stated.
Greater than 35,600 Palestinians have been killed, the overwhelming majority of whom have been girls and youngsters, and almost 79,900 others injured since final October following an assault by the Palestinian group Hamas.
Greater than seven months into the Israeli struggle, huge swathes of Gaza lay in ruins amid a crippling blockade of meals, clear water and drugs.
Israel is accused of genocide on the Worldwide Court docket of Justice, which has ordered it to make sure that its forces don’t commit acts of genocide and take measures to ensure that humanitarian help is supplied to civilians in Gaza.
*Writing by Mohammad Sio
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