As global pressure for a truce in Gaza intensifies, the army and authorities Israel This Saturday they insisted they would press ahead with the Gaza Strip, where it was time to “apply more pressure” given signs that Hamas “It’s falling apart.”

“We see terrorists surrendering, this is a sign of the collapse of the system and that we must apply more pressure,” said Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, assuring that the army’s achievements are becoming more significant, while Israeli forces deepen offensive ground over the devastated enclave.

His statements come as images alleged Hamas members in the Gaza Strip after they apparently surrendered half-naked and left their weapons on the orders of Israeli troops in the sector, while hand-to-hand fighting and heavy Israeli bombing continued throughout the sector.

In the same time, Soldiers killed in clashes in Gaza Strip The number has continued to rise, and the army has recorded 97 soldiers killed since the ground offensive began a month and a half ago.

Likewise, Israeli attacks left about 210 Palestinian deaths Some 2,300 were injured in the past day, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which said Israel had committed “20 massacres,” while the total death toll since the war began on Oct. 7 exceeds 17,700 and some 49,000 were injured. including at a school in northern Gaza, where “dozens were killed and wounded.”

Meanwhile, videos circulated on social media showed the scale of destruction in various parts of Gaza, especially in Gaza City and the north of the enclave, areas where Israeli troops entered weeks ago and where they continue to fight. They have been doing this for several days in places considered a Hamas strongholdsuch as the Yabalia refugee camp or the Shijaya area.

Added to this is the complete collapse of hospitals in Gaza City and the north, which were “out of service due to the siege by Israeli occupying forces and attacks in their surroundings,” he said. EFE representative of the Palestinian Red Crescent emergency services, for whom in these areas there is almost no opportunity to get medical care despite the large number of sick and injured people.

“Israeli snipers and forces are simply targeting anyone trying to move in these areas,” he said. “Neither rescue teams, nor ambulances, nor humanitarian organizations can do anything because we do not have safe access to these areas.” Well now “this is a war zone” the representative added.

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These days, he said, the Red Crescent “receives dozens of calls from areas of Gaza City and northern Gaza, such as Shijaya, Jabaliya or Beit Lahiya.” These places havepeople are trapped in their homes without food or water“, there are many “old or sick women who want to leave, but cannot do anything.”

All this is happening while the Palestinian National Authority assures that over 25% of urbanized areas in the Gaza Strip were “completely erased from the world map” in a scenario of destruction that spreads as Israel continues its offensive, it is now on the 64th day since the war began on October 7.

Above all, pressure from the international community and the United Nations on Israel to stop the conflict has increased in recent days, and on Friday the United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

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His veto was condemned by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and praised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu insisted that Israel will not stop its offensive until Hamas is eradicated from the Gaza Strip, while repeating their message that they do not yet intend to reduce the intensity of the attacks, which are also concentrated in the southern region, in the city of Khan Yunis. (EFE)