Hamas said it engaged in “fierce fighting” with the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip on Sunday. Israel entered the northern Gaza Strip with armored vehicles on Sunday. “Hamas anti-tank and observation posts” were destroyed and “numerous terrorists were eliminated,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) wrote on Twitter.
“Our fighters are currently engaged in heavy fighting with machine guns and anti-tank weapons against the invading occupation forces in the northwest of the Gaza Strip,” the armed wing of the radical Islamist Palestinian organization said on Sunday evening.
Tanks continue to roll into Gaza
The Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades also said they fired “mortar shells and rockets” at an Israeli military base in Eres. Eres is the main border crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip and has been closed since Hamas’ major attack on Israel on October 7.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army said it continued to attack northern Gaza Strip from the air and with artillery fire on Sunday evening. ‘Terrorists have been identified’ emerging from a tunnel at the border crossing. Israeli soldiers “confronted, killed and injured” them, the army said.
Netanyahu announced a “second phase” of the war
After three weeks of massive airstrikes in the densely populated area, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had now spoken of entering the “second phase” of the war by expanding ground operations. The aim is to destroy the military capabilities of the Islamist-Palestinian organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip, end its rule and bring home at least 230 hostages.
After the worst massacre in Israel’s history, which Hamas carried out in the border area on October 7, the army said the soldiers are “determined and highly motivated.” Chief of General Staff Herzi Halevi said they would “never forget the murdered children.” You take the atrocities “to the battlefield”.
“It won’t be blitzkrieg”
According to an Israeli security expert, the army is facing a long and intense conflict. “It won’t be a blitzkrieg or a six-day war,” said Amos Jadlin, former head of Israel’s military intelligence. The military will move “meter by meter” to reduce civilian casualties and “kill as many Hamas terrorists as possible,” he said.
The biggest limitation is the hostages, Jadlin says. However, given the high number of casualties among the Palestinian population, pressure on Israel to agree to a ceasefire is also growing. There were protests against Israel around the world given the increasing number of deaths in the Gaza Strip. The UN speaks of a precarious humanitarian situation. In the Gaza Strip, people looted UN food warehouses.
Source: Krone
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