Israeli army ground troops are advancing in the south of the Gaza Strip, but the operation that has been going on for weeks against the militant Palestinian organization Hamas in the north is not yet over. “We have not yet completely defeated them militarily in the north, but we have made good progress,” army spokesman Jonathan Conricus said on Monday.
The army again called for the evacuation of about 20 areas or stretches of road in the Gaza Strip. It publishes a map with arrows pointing south via the short messaging service X, showing where residents of the Gaza Strip should go.
Israel thus designates so-called safe areas for the civilian population. However, residents and United Nations officials have said it is difficult to comply with the orders due to problems with internet connections and power supplies.
Where should citizens go?
From the beginning it was said that the fight against Hamas would not be easy and would take time, Conricus told American broadcaster CNN. You are dealing with an enemy ‘who has no problem sacrificing civilians for his military cause’
The army spokesman rejected aid groups’ accusations that the Israeli army did not give hundreds of thousands of civilians in the completely overpopulated south of the closed coastal strip enough time to escape attacks.
Everything is being done to protect citizens. “If Hamas had gone outside the urban areas and fought against us there, of course the civilian population would not have been affected. But Hamas didn’t do that, they use the civilians,” Conricus said.
Criticism from the UN Children’s Fund
The spokesman for the UN children’s fund UNICEF, James Elder, had previously sharply criticized the Israeli attacks. A “massacre” is taking place in the south. Elder described the information about so-called ‘safe zones’ for the Gaza population as a ‘misrepresentation’.
On Monday evening alone, the Israeli army said it had attacked 200 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. Soldiers attacked “terrorist infrastructure” at a school in the city of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip. Soldiers were attacked from the school. There are said to have been two tunnel shafts on the site, one of which was booby-trapped. Israel repeatedly accuses Hamas of using civilians as a protective shield. The terrorist organization rejects this.
The Israeli military also claims to have prevented attacks on its forces in the Gaza Strip through airstrikes in several cases. The navy also attacked Islamist Hamas targets during the night. Extremist Palestinians fired rockets into Israel again on Monday. According to the military, rocket alarms were activated in border towns near the Gaza Strip.
Also fighting near Lebanon
There was also renewed shelling on the border between Lebanon and Israel. The Israeli army recorded several mortar shells fired from Lebanon at army positions on Monday night and Monday morning. Three Israeli soldiers were slightly injured in the attacks. The army then attacked the places where the attacks came from.
Lebanese security circles also said that an attack took place from Lebanon on a post in the neighboring country. Israel responded with counterfire.
Source: Krone
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