A house destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in the Khan Younis refugee camp in the Gaza Strip Photo: picture alliance / ASSOCIATED PRESS | Hatem Moussa
From BZ/dpa
Israel’s army has announced that it will expand its ground operations in the Gaza Strip against the Islamist Hamas. Military spokesman Daniel Hagari announced this on Friday evening on X, formerly Twitter.
In the last few hours, the military has increased its attacks in the Gaza Strip. He further explained that underground targets and terrorist infrastructure were increasingly being attacked.
It initially remained unclear whether the announcement marked the start of the Israeli military’s widely expected ground offensive. The Israeli military had previously made isolated, time-limited advances on the ground.
Media reports indicated massive Israeli bombing raids in the Gaza Strip on Friday evening.
The internet also failed in the sealed-off coastal strip with more than two million inhabitants.
► More than 1,400 people were killed in Israel in the Hamas terrorist attack in the border area with the Gaza Strip on October 7th. More than 200 hostages were kidnapped into the Gaza Strip.
Since then, Israel has been bombing targets in the Gaza Strip on a massive scale. The military also mobilized around 300,000 reservists and gathered forces near the Gaza Strip for a possible ground offensive.