In the middle of the 24-hour period that Israel had given the population of the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate to the south due to the threat of an imminent invasion by the Israeli army, its military carried out the first rapid and located in this area during Friday night.
The operation served the armed forces to recover bodies of Israeli hostages from Hamas, as well as evidence to find some of the more than 120 hostages – mostly Israeli but also from other countries – that the Islamist movement took in its massive attack on September 7. October, according to the Haaretz newspaper, citing a military spokesman.
During “localized raids” within the Palestinian enclave, Israeli forces “gathered evidence that would help in the effort to locate the hostages,” an Israeli Army spokesperson told the Efe agency, a week after the war between Israel and Israel began. the Islamist movement. However, according to the Haaretz newspaper, “the Army said that the bodies of Israelis held captive by Hamas were recovered,” information on which the military spokesman refused to comment to the Spanish agency.
On the other hand, he reported that in their incursion into Gaza, Israeli forces “thwarted terrorist cells and infrastructure located in the area, including a Hamas one that fired anti-tank missiles into Israeli territory.”
Hamas, which de facto rules the Gaza Strip, took Israel by surprise last Saturday with a massive attack that included the launching of thousands of rockets and the infiltration of more than 1,200 militants into Israeli soil, who massacred and kidnapped civilians – including women and children of various nationalities – in the Israeli villages surrounding the Palestinian enclave.
The attack has left 1,400 dead and more than 3,400 injured in Israel, and the Israeli bombings in response have caused 1,900 dead and more than 7,700 injured in the Palestinian enclave, which is preparing to invade. Tel Aviv has extended the ultimatum to 4 p.m. (local time) this Saturday for more than a million Gazans living in the north of the Strip to leave their homes.
The UN and NGOs working on the ground warn that the exodus will aggravate the humanitarian crisis in which the territory already finds itself, currently deprived of water, food, electricity and fuel due to the Israeli blockade. The refugee camps in the south of the enclave, more than half of whose population are refugees expelled from the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel, have no capacity to house the refugees.
For the first time since the war began, Israeli forces carried out raids in Gaza on Friday night, coming under fire from anti-tank missiles while Israeli warplanes bombed the area. “We will continue to do everything possible to find all the details about the missing and the hostages,” Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the Israeli army, said after the raid.
After the Army yesterday ordered the evacuation of more than a million people in northern Gaza, a large-scale ground incursion into the Strip is not ruled out.
