JERUSALEM: The Israeli navy mentioned Wednesday (Aug 13) it had accepted the “framework” for a brand new offensive within the Gaza Strip, days after the safety Cupboard referred to as for the seizure of Gaza Metropolis.
Armed forces chief Lieutenant Basic Eyal Zamir “accepted the principle framework for the IDF’s operational plan within the Gaza Strip”, a press release launched by the military mentioned.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s authorities has not offered a exact timetable for when Israeli troops will enter the territory’s largest metropolis, the place 1000’s have taken refuge after fleeing earlier offensives.
Gaza’s civil defence company mentioned Israeli air strikes on Gaza Metropolis have intensified in latest days, with the residential neighbourhoods of Zeitoun and Sabra hit “with very heavy air strikes concentrating on civilian properties, presumably together with high-rise buildings”.
Information of the navy’s approval of the plan comes hours after Hamas mentioned a senior delegation had arrived in Cairo for “preliminary talks” with Egyptian officers on a short lived truce.
The Netanyahu authorities’s plans to develop the Gaza struggle after greater than 22 months of preventing have sparked a global outcry in addition to home opposition.
UN-backed consultants have warned of widespread famine unfolding within the territory, the place Israel has drastically curtailed the quantity of humanitarian support it permits in.
Hamas’s October 2023 assault which triggered the struggle resulted within the deaths of 1,219 folks, in line with an AFP tally based mostly on official figures.
Israel’s offensive has killed not less than 61,599 Palestinians, in line with figures from the well being ministry in Hamas-run Gaza which the United Nations considers dependable.
