The Israeli army warned this Friday that it will operate with a “significant force” in Gaza in the coming days and called on the population of the north of the territory to withdraw to the south to attack Hamas.
“As we understand that there are civilians here who are not our enemies and that we do not want to attack them, we ask them to leave,” said Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Conricus, quoted by the US agency AP.
Israel has massed forces near the Gaza Strip in a sign of a ground offensive, after bombing territory controlled by the Islamist group Hamas in recent days.
The escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict was provoked by Hamas, which on Saturday carried out an unprecedented incursion into Israel, killing civilians and soldiers and taking more than a hundred hostages, taken to the Gaza Strip.
Since then, the conflict has caused more than 1,300 deaths on the Israeli side and around 1,400 on the Palestinian side.
Source: TSF
