Israel announces that it is expanding the offensive in southern Gaza, where “areas will be annexed”

The Israeli Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, has announced that they expand their offensive in the south of the Gaza Strip “to eliminate and clean the terrorist area” and warn that “they take up large areas that will be attached to the safety areas of the state of Israel.”

“The ‘Power and Sword’ operation is expanding, with a large -scale evacuation of the Gaza population of the combat areas, the crushing and cleaning of the area of ​​terrorists and terrorist infrastructure,” says the explanation of the Israeli minister.

The announcement comes after a wave of attacks on the southern points of Jan Yunis and Rafah during this last night, according to Palestinian media.

The Sanad news agency, linked to Hamas, speaks of at least thirteen deaths by an Israeli air raid launched during this morning against a house in the center of the city of Jan Yunis.

The attacks on the south of the Palestinian enclave have been intensively since Monday 31 March, when the army ordered new evacuations in the Rafah area before launching new bomb attacks.

According to the mayor of Rafah, around 40,000 people left this border area with Egypt with bicycles, cars and trailers with their possessions on Monday. Some Gazatis reported that, since the beginning of the war, movements have been forced to ten occasions.

On the other hand, in his statement, Katz went back to the Gazati population for which he asked to “act now to expel Hamas and return to all hostages” because he says, “It is the only way to end the war.”

Last week, after the outbreak of the first spontaneous protests of Gazatis against Hamas, the head of the defense encouraged the population to keep them again under the dissertation that will only come the end of the war.

“I wish good luck to the soldiers who fight with courage and strength in Gaza for the return of the kidnapped and the defeat of Hamas,” he added.