The Israeli Army withdrew all its ground troops from the south of the Gaza Strip last night, and only one brigade remains in the enclave, a military source confirmed to EFE this Sunday.
The withdrawal occurs after four months of fighting in the Khan Younis area and six months after the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, where more than 33,100 people have already died, most of them women and children.
Currently, there is only one Israeli brigade left in the Palestinian enclave that is responsible for securing a corridor between southern Israel and the Gaza coast, blocking the passage to the north of the Strip and facilitating operations in the center and north of the territory.
The news comes after this Saturday the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) recovered the lifeless body of Israeli hostage Elad Katzir in Khan Younis, who had been in the hands of Hamas.
Doctors from the Institute of Forensic Medicine identified the body overnight and authorities informed the family of Katzir, who was kidnapped during the October 7 attacks on Kibbutz Nir Oz along with his mother, released during the seven-day truce. between Israel and Hamas, in November.
The two main hospitals of this southern city, Al Amal and Naser, have been devastated and inoperative after the siege by Jewish troops during these months under the thesis that there was the presence of alleged combatants in these complexes.
“Dozens of suspects have been handed over to the Shin Bet and Unit 504 of the Directorate of Military Intelligence for further interrogation,” the Army detailed in a statement on April 2.
Likewise, the Israeli Army reported this Sunday that, before its withdrawal, its combat units have carried out the last operations in the Al Amal neighborhood to finish “dismantling the terrorist infrastructure.”
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Israel’s next objective in Gaza appears to be the already announced military incursion into Rafah, in the south of the enclave, where 1.4 million displaced people live and, according to the Army, four Hamas battalions still remain; an incursion opposed by the United States, Israel’s main military ally.
