The Israeli army confirmed this Wednesday the start of a new ground offensive against the city of Deir el-Balah. and the Bureij refugee camp, located in the center of the Gaza Strip, with the stated purpose of destroying “terrorist infrastructure” Islamist group Hamas.

Thus, in a statement published on his website, he stated that this is a “precise activity” east of Deir el-Balah and Bureij, and emphasized that he had launched the operation “based on intelligence information” about “the presence of terrorists and terrorist infrastructure on the ground and in the tunnels.”

“Activities have begun with air force aircraft attacks” he said, before detailing that on the last day he bombed “military complexes”, “weapons depots” and “underground infrastructures”. “Many Hamas terrorists were killed in terrorist attacks,” he stressed.

In this sense, he said the military also launched attacks on Bureij and Deir el-Balah “as part of a parallel and coordinated effort to destroy terrorist infrastructure.” located many kilometers from the border” between Israel and the Gaza Strip.

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The Israeli army was already involved in clashes with Hamas in Bureij in January, although it has not yet launched a ground operation against Deir al-Balah. However, it became the target of numerous bombings as part of the offensive against the enclave. following the October 7 attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian factions that left some 1,200 people dead and nearly 240 kidnapped.

The military offensive on the Gaza Strip has stopped for now. more than 36,500 Palestinians killed and almost 83,000 wounded, According to data published by the authorities of the enclave controlled by the Islamist group. They were joined by about 520 Palestinians killed at the hands of security forces and as a result of settler attacks in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

(Europe Press)