The “intensive” phase of the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip is “coming to an end” – Liberation

Three months after the Israeli army’s ground incursion into the Palestinian enclave, in which thousands of people were killed, the Jewish state estimated that the intensive phase of the operation “will end soon.”

Towards relief for the Gazan population? step “intense” Fighting in southern Gaza “will be over soon” when “In northern Gaza, this phase is coming to an end,” This Tuesday, January 16, Israel’s Defense Minister, Yoav Galant, announced, confirming that Hamas’s Khan Yunis Brigade “decomposition”. During the night, Israeli planes bombarded an area of ​​the city located in the south of the Gaza Strip, which has been the focus of ground combat and airstrikes in recent weeks, where, according to the Israeli army, the local leadership of Hamas.

With this intrusion, Israel was entered “A New Phase of War”. On Friday, October 27, the Israeli army launched a ground offensive “unprecedented” North of the Gaza Strip, before expanding its operations “to all” of the Palestinian enclave in early December with the aim of destroying the Islamist movement. This “Intensive Phase” The war between Hamas and Israel has killed more than 24,000 Gazans, according to inaccurate Hamas figures, and displaced 1.4 million people, according to United Nations estimates. “We have clearly said that the intensive phase of the operation will last for about three months,” recalled Israel’s defense minister.

According to the press office of the Palestinian Islamic Movement, a total of 78 people were killed and many wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza in the evening and night from Monday to Tuesday. “Our enemies and our friends are following the war in Gaza and watching us. The future of the State of Israel, here on our soil, depends on the outcome of this war.

Added Yoav Gallant, whose government earlier approved a revised budget for 2024, adding $15 billion (13.7 billion euros) in spending to meet the costs of the conflict.

The UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, launched a new call for their part “Immediate Humanitarian Ceasefire”, Also necessary according to them to ensure humanitarian assistance “Facilitate the release of hostages”. “We continue to call for rapid, safe, unimpeded, comprehensive and sustained humanitarian access to and through Gaza,” He revealed to the press, adding “Nothing can justify the collective punishment inflicted on the Palestinian people”

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The war was triggered by an unprecedented terrorist attack by Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, which resulted in the deaths of about 1,140 people on the Israeli side, most of them civilians, the same day, according to an official AFP count. Statistics of Israel.