According to its spokesman Effie Defrin, the Israeli army has “preparatory measures” to take the city Gaza started. “We started preparing and the first phases of the attack on Gaza City, and Israeli troops are already holding the city’s outer districts,” he said in the evening in front of journalists. The army started the “next phase of the war”.
When asked by Israeli journalists, why it is Military Defrin replied according to the newspaper Ha’aretzThe organization has already been defeated in all places where the Israeli army operated on “. However, Hamas is only defeated when it no longer checked a area. “After the war we cannot live with a rule of Hamas,” said the military spokesman.
According to his office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had previously ordered the city of Gaza to take faster than previously planned. The “schedule for the conquest of the last terrorist strongholds and the defeat of the Hamas” should be shortened, his office announced without naming details.
Netanyahus arranged before Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz was the plan of operations army to take Gazas. Katz ‘office announced in the morning that the minister approved the convening of around 60,000 other reservists for taking the city of Gaza. In addition, the reserve service should be extended by around 20,000 other soldiers, it said.
The Israeli security cabinet agreed to take Gaza in early August. So far it is unclear when the soil offensive should begin. Media reported that the residents should be brought to refugee camps in the center of the sealed Gaza Strip until the beginning of October. It is feared that the offensive will worsen the already catastrophic situation of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip, where a total of around two million Palestinians live.
This article is updated.
