The Israeli army held brief tank raid in the northern Gaza Strip ahead of the “next stages of fighting” against the Islamist group Hamas, a military spokesman said this Thursday, a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that his troops They will carry out a “land intervention” in the Palestinian enclave.

“At night, the Israel Defense Forces conducted selective raid using tanks in the north of the Gaza Strip, in preparation for the next stages of hostilities,” the military spokesman said.

In action, “soldiers discovered and attacked numerous terrorists, terrorist infrastructure and anti-tank missile launch sites,” he explained.

Thus, Israeli forces “They acted to prepare the battlefield” and “they left the area at the end of the event,” he stressed.

In turn, as they added, “Israeli fighter jets attacked more than 250 Hamas targets” on the final day, which included “operational command centers, tunnels and missile launchers.” located in the heart of residential areas” from where the army claims the militia fired throughout the war.”

In addition, naval forces “attacked Hamas launch site for launching anti-aircraft missiles in the Khan Yunis area.”

Since Israel declared war on Hamas on October 7 following a massive attack by the Islamist group that killed more than 1,400 people, Israeli troops have already carried out brief ground raids in the northern sector. while they continue constant bombing that has killed over 6,500 people in the enclave.

For their part, Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip continued to fire rockets at various points in Israeli territory until Wednesday evening, the first time since the conflict began heading to the city of Eilat, in the far south of Israel.

Wednesday evening Netanyahu confirmed in a televised address that “there will be a ground intervention in the Gaza Strip.” and that “they are working against the clock” in preparations in coordination with Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Chief of the General Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi.

“I will not go into detail about when, how and how much. I’m also not going to elaborate on the various considerations that we take into account, many of which are not known to the Israeli population, which is a positive thing because we want to protect the lives of our soldiers,” he said.

On the other hand, the President of Israel confirmed the order that all Gazan civilians leave the northern Gaza Strip, despite the fact that there are no safety conditions for him.

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More than a million Palestinians, half the population of the Gaza Strip, were moved south -where there is also constant bombing by Israeli forces – in the midst of an unprecedented humanitarian crisis after Israel completely cut off water, food, medicine, electricity and fuel.

Many Gazans were unwilling or unable to evacuate due to the presence of sick or disabled relatives, while many hospitals have already been destroyed and cannot treat more than 17,000 wounded, the vast majority of whom are children, women and the elderly, as humanitarian aid flows across the border with Egypt. insufficient.

(EFE)