The Israel Defense Forces (FDI) have announced this Friday that they have expanded their offensive on the Gaza Strip with a series of operations framed in the Operation ‘Gideon cars’, with which they seek to defeat the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and free the hostages captured during the offensive of October 7, 2023.
“During the last 24 hours, the IDF have launched broad attacks and mobilized forces to seize controlled areas in the Gaza Strip, as part of the opening movements of the operation ‘Gideon cars’ and the expansion of the campaign in Gaza, to achieve all the objectives of the war in Gaza, including the release of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas,” said the Israeli army in an Israeli army in an Israeli army Publication on your account on social network X.
The announcement has been accompanied by a video in which they are shown Air attacks against different objectives, presumably as part of this new operation. “The FDI forces in the South Command will continue to operate to protect Israeli citizens and achieve the objectives of the war,” the FDIs added at the end of their message.
This communication comes after the army itself claimed to have attacked “More than 150 terrorist objectives “ During the last day in the Gaza Strip, amid the intensification of the offensive against the enclave, after the Gazati authorities, controlled by Hamas, have denounced about 200 dead between Thursday and Friday.
The Palestinian media report that the first major objective of the Israeli forces seems to be the town of Deir al Balá, in the center of the enclave, where they have approached between intense attacks by artillery and aerial.
Deir al Balá is one of the few areas of Gaza where land troops have not yet operated during the war. Previously, the forces had operated on the outskirts, but not inside the city. In addition, the town is just south of the displaced field of Al Mawasi, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have finished refugees from Israeli bombings.
The Gazati authorities, it should be remembered, have raised this Friday to more than 53,100 the dead and more than 120,000 the injured From the beginning of the Israeli military offensive against the enclave, unleashed after the attacks executed on October 7, 2023 by Hamas and other Palestinian groups, which left about 1,200 dead and about 250 kidnapped, according to the official balance provided by the Israel authorities.
