Israeli military expands operations in Gaza Strip • FRANCE 24 English

Well Gavin it seems clear that the Israeli Army is expanding their operations hitting Central uh Israel a very Central Gaza very intensively and then it appears uh moving south hitting Kan Yunis which is already a place where there’s intense fire right now uh but they want to get down to it appears the

RAF area The Crossing with Egypt uh there is a tunnel Network there it’s believed uh some of uh hamas’s top leaders may be hiding there this is an area known as the philadel Philadelphia quarter uh where Egypt had to destroy many tunnels that crossed from Egyptian

Soil into Gaza to stop smuggling uh of arms and militant and Israel it appears uh it has perhaps a month left of intense fighting that is the estimate that it wants to get down to that border area uh possibly take control and set up some kind of milit milary buffer there

And that may be why we’re seeing so many intense bombing campaigns setting the stage for ground troops to head further south now you’ve been listening across what appears to be a notable press conference from the Israeli defense minister we heard a short snippet of it

There but just go into detail if you can as as to what he was talking about this expansive war and also talking about actions that have been taken by Israel well defense minister essentially was laying out all the countries that Israel is coming under threat from uh

Yemen that has fired uh drones and missiles on Israel’s southern city of aot uh Syria and Lebanon uh the two countries where uh both the Syrian military and Hezbollah the Shiite militant group has been firing on Israel’s North uh consistently especially we should say uh those attacks intensifying in the last

Several weeks uh he also mentioned uh Iraq militias there uh that are also intending to fire uh that haven’t succeeded uh perhaps on on Israel uh the West Bank is an area where there are still lots of militants there Israel’s conducting raids there overnight uh and

Of course the Gaza Strip the main Arena of this war and yov Golan mentioned Iran as well uh but he also said that of the Arenas Israel’s operated or threats Israel has addressed six of them uh if we do a elimination we can see that likely this was a veiled reference

Perhaps to uh last night’s uh assassination of a top Iranian general which Iran has blamed uh on Israel on an Israeli air strike near Damascus uh yov Galant of course and Israel not claiming that attack U but it is the one if you look at those seven Arenas and you do

The math uh Iraq is the one that Israel has not come close to and if you include that assassination attempt it may have been a message yov Galant was sending to Iran who by the way is supporting many of the proxy groups that are attacking

Israel uh that it will go after even a senior person like s mavi who was a close associate of kasum sulamani the head of the Iranian revolutionary guard that was killed in an air strike uh by the us a few years ago back in Baghdad

The Israeli army bombed refugee camps in central Gaza on Tuesday, according to local residents, in apparent preparation to expand their ground offensive into a third section of the besieged territory. The opening of a potential new battle zone points to the long and destructive road still ahead as Israel vows to crush Hamas after its Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel. “They [Israeli forces] want to get down, it appears, to the Rafah area, the crossing with Egypt. There is a tunnel network there, it’s believed that some of Hamas’s top leaders may be hiding there,” ABC News Correspondent Jordana Miller told FRANCE 24.
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