— I ordered the army to take over additional areas in the Gaza Strip, as well as the evacuation of the population and the expansion of the safety zones around to defend the Israeli communities and the armed forces. The more Hamas insists on refusing to release the hostages, the more land he loses, to be joined to Israel," said the defence minister Israel Kac, quoted by the Jerusalem Times paper portal.
— If the hostages are not freed, Israel will proceed to control the increasing territories in Gaza, to take control of them, he said.
Israel resumed raids on Gaza
The Minister argued that the Israeli authorities "use all forms of military and civilian pressure, including the evacuation of Gaza's population southwards and the implementation of Trump's plan for voluntary displacement," said Reuter. He announced that he would "enhance" the military run against the Hamas terrorist group, Among others, "by extending land operations until the hostages are released and Hamas is defeated".
On Thursday, Kac approved the continuation of the war effort in the Gaza Strip, and the army reported that the scope of the land operation had been widened. On Tuesday, Israel resumed heavy raidsAnd a day later, he started a land operation. On Wednesday, it was reported that the Israelis were one more time occupying the Necarim Corridor, a strip of land that divides the Gaza Strip into the northern and confederate parts. On Thursday, it was added that the soldiers besides began operations on land in the northern Gaza Strip.
Israeli troops withdrew in late January from most Gazan territory as part of a two-month ceasefire interrupted on Tuesday. The army was stationed throughout the buffer region along the Israeli border, as well as in the Philadelphia Corridor, or belt close the border with Egypt close Rafah.
