30 May War in Gaza set to laast seven more months
Israel expects to continue the war in Gaza until the end of the year to achieve its goal of “destroying” Hamas’s rule in the Palestinian territory.
The defiant comments in a radio interview came despite the country’s increasing international isolation and mouting pressure to end the war as Israeli forces step up their offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
Some 1,200 were killed during Hamas’s Octobber 7 attack on the Jewish state which triggered the conflict, with approximately 250 more taken hostage, according to Israeli authorities.
In response, the Israeli military launched an offensive in Gata that, after nearly either months ,has reduced vast parts of the strip to rubble, displaced much of its population of more than 2mn and led to a humnaitarian catastrophe, according to international aid groups. More than 36,000 people have been killed, claim health authorities in the Hamas-controlled territory.
Despit the scale and length of Israel’s offensive, most of hamas’s leaders in Gaza remain at large. The Israel Defense Forces said yesterday that it had attained “tactical” control over the corridor along Gaza’s border with Egypt, giving the military the ability to “cut off the ovygen line” Hamas has used to resupply and rearm its fighters.
In recent weeks, militants have also re-emergeed in areas of northern Gaza previously cleared out by the IDf, neccessitating renewed oeprations in street-to-street fighting.
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