2023-10-27 17:36:49
CNN’s Nic Robertson reports hearing tank shots as well as “unusual, intense and sustained” military activity over the past few hours.
The northern Gaza Strip is being subjected to a series of unprecedented attacks, several media outlets reported this Friday afternoon.
According to a correspondent for the Al Jazeera channel, the Palestinian enclave is experiencing the “most intense bombing by land, sea and air since the beginning of the war,” on October 7, when an escalation of hostilities was recorded.
CNN’s Nic Robertson reports hearing tank shots as well as “unusual, intense and sustained” military activity over the past few hours.
Gaza Strip is under the heaviest air attack since the beginning of the aggression. pic.twitter.com/5AH1U8gSh2
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) October 27, 2023
This comes as Israel hopes to soon launch a long and difficult ground offensive in Gaza to destroy Hamas, the country’s defense minister said Friday, describing a campaign that will require dismantling a vast network of tunnels used by the militants.
Minister Yoav Gallant spoke to a small group of foreign journalists in Tel Aviv after Israeli forces, backed by fighter jets and drones, carried out a second limited ground incursion into Gaza in as many days, attacking the outskirts of Gaza City.
Gallant said the ground invasion — which follows weeks of airstrikes — “will take a long time” and would lead to another prolonged phase of lower-intensity fighting as Israel destroys “pockets of resistance.”
Israel has asserted that it intends to crush the Hamas government in Gaza and its ability to threaten Israel.
But it remains unclear how the defeat of Hamas and the end of an invasion will be measured. Israel maintains it does not intend to govern the small territory of 2.3 million Palestinians, but has not clarified who it expects to govern it, even though Gallant suggested a long-term insurgency could ensue.
Gaza’s Health Ministry on Thursday published a detailed list of names and identification numbers of those killed, including more than 3,000 minors and more than 1,500 women. Palestinian militants have fired thousands of rockets into Israel, including one that hit a residential building in Tel Aviv on Friday, wounding four people.
According to the Israeli government, more than 1,400 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas attack on October 7, and at least 229 hostages were taken to Gaza.
The total number of deaths far exceeds the combined number of the four previous wars between Israel and Hamas, estimated at around 4,000. A ground invasion is expected to cause even more casualties on both sides as Israeli forces and Hamas battle in dense residential areas.
Hospitals have been searching for fuel to run emergency generators that power incubators and other life-saving equipment after Israel cut off all fuel deliveries to Gaza at the start of the war, forcing it to shut down its only power plant. .
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▪️ The Israeli military said that during the attack, tanks and facilities of Palestinian forces in central Gaza were destroyed.
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Gallant said Israel believes Hamas will confiscate any fuel that comes in. He added that the armed group uses generators to pump air into its hundreds of kilometers of tunnels, which originate in civilian areas.
“To get air, they need oil. For oil, they need us,” he said.
Little is known about Hamas’s secret tunnels and other infrastructure, and it was not possible to independently confirm Gallant’s claims.
“The siege means that food, water and fuel – basic commodities – are being used to collectively punish more than 2 million people, including most children and women,” Philippe Lazzarini, head of UNRWA, the UN agency that works with Palestinian refugees.
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