Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant announced on Monday that the intensive phase of the war “will end soon” in the southern Gaza Strip, where Israeli strikes are currently intensifying.
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The minister said: “We clearly said that the phase of intensive operations will last about three months.” “In the south, we will achieve it and it will end soon,” the minister said, adding, “The moment will come when we enter the south.” The next phase of the war in Gaza.
The army said in a statement that one of the four teams participating in the Gaza Strip “left it in the evening.” Special forces are also involved.
Upon entering the territory on October 27, the Israeli army first struck mainly the north of the Palestinian territories, ordering the population to flee south.
Then the heaviest fighting and bombing moved towards the south, especially in recent weeks in the areas of Khan Yunis and Rafah.
The war broke out as a result of an unprecedented attack carried out by Hamas on October 7 in southern Israel, which led to the killing of about 1,140 people on the Israeli side, the majority of them civilians, on October 7, according to a census conducted by Agence France-Presse based on official sources. Israeli personalities.
Since then, 24,100 people, the vast majority of them women, children and teenagers, have been killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli bombing and military operations, and about 60,000 others have been injured, according to the Health Ministry of the Hamas movement that rules the Palestinian territories.
