Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katj on Friday threatened to enacted parts of the Gaza Strip until the Hamas militants leave the remaining Israeli hostages held in the Palestinian region.
This warning occurred when Israel carried forward a fresh attack on Tuesday, which was calm in the battle-batter region since the 19 January ceasefire.
Gaza’s Civil Defense Agency said that the Israeli strike killed 11 people on Friday-three more during the day and eight more during the day.
On Thursday, it was reported to count 504 deaths since the bombing started, since the war began with Hamas’s attack on Israel over 17 months ago.
Katz said in a statement, “I ordered (Army) to seize more area in Gaza … The more Hamas refuses to free the hostages, the more the area will be lost, the more area will be lost by Israel,” Katz said in a statement.
Shouldn’t Hamas not comply with, Katz also threatened that “to extend the buffer zone around Gaza to protect the Israeli civilian population and soldiers by implementing a permanent Israeli occupation of the region”.
The military urged the residents of the al-Salatin, Al-Karama and Al-Awadh areas of Southern Gaza to vacate their houses before the strike in a threat on Friday.
“For your safety, the head towards the immediately known shelters,” the Israeli military spokesperson Avicha Adrai said in a post on X.
Northern Gaza’s AFP images showed that donkey vehicles were shown high piles with luggage as the residents had run their homes with debris scattered roads.
– ‘Pressure points’ –
Israel resumed Gaza’s intense bombing on Tuesday, cited the deadlock in the next stages in the next stages after ending its first phase earlier this month.
The large -scale military operations were coordinated with the administration of US President Donald Trump to resume, but widespread condemnation.
Turkey condemned that a “deliberate” attack was carried out by Israel in a Turkish-made hospital in Gaza. The Ministry of External Affairs said, “We strongly condemn the destruction by Israel of Turkish-Pilstino Friendship Hospital.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed “concern” over the latest Israeli attack in a telephone call on Friday with a ruler of Qatar, one of the intermediaries of the January ceasefire.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog expressed concern about the government’s actions in a video statement on Thursday, saying that it was “unimaginable to resume the fight,” was “chasing the sacred mission of bringing our hostages home”.
Thousands of protesters have ralled in Jerusalem in recent times, in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the military operations of resumption regularly regardless of the safety of the hostages.
Out of 251 hostages seized during Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack, 58 are still with Gaza terrorists, with 34 Israeli army say that they have died.
The Israeli army said on Thursday that it had closed the main North-South route of the area as it had expanded the ground operations starting on Wednesday.
– Projects from Gaza –
Israel’s army said it was expelled from North Gaza on Friday from North Gaza, when the wind raid in the southern city of Ashkelon was voiced.
On Thursday, Sirens moved to Central Israel as Hamas said he aggressively fired rockets in Tel Aviv in his first military response to Israel’s resumption of Israel. The army said it stopped a rocket, while two hit a deserted area.
“We will intensify the fight by expanding the ground operations along with the expansion of the ground operations along with air, Navy and ground shells, using all military and civil pressure points, extending the ground operation,” Katz said.
He said that these include implementing Trump’s proposal to the United States involving Gaza after transfer of their Palestinian residents in other Arab countries to redevelop Gaza as a Mediterranean resort.
Asked if Trump was trying to achieve a Gaza ceasefire on the track on Thursday, White House press secretary Karolin Levit told reporters that President Israeli’s renewed gaza operating “fully support”.
Israel rejected the conversation for a promised second phase of Trus, instead called for the return of all the remaining hostages under an extended first phase.
This meant that delay in negotiations on a permanent ceasefire, and Hamas was rejected as an attempt to resume the original deal.
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