Israeli defense minister Israel Katz said that Israel’s determination to continue his offensive in the Gaza Strip after intense night attacks by the Israeli army around the city of Gaza.
“Gaza Burns. Tsahal hits the terrorist infrastructure with an iron fist, and Tsahal’s soldiers fight bravely to create the necessary conditions for the release of hostages and the defeat of Hamas,” said Israel Katz in X. “We will not surrender and will not go back until the mission is completed,” he added.
During the night from Monday to Tuesday, the city of Gaza was affected by strong bombings. “There are massive and incessant bombings in the city of Gaza and the danger continues to increase,” said a resident of this area to the AFP.
This 25 -year -old man described an “explosion that violently shook the land of the neighborhood” shortly after 1 local hour on Tuesday. “I ran to the street, on the strike site”, “three houses” of a residential block “were completely shaved.” “Many people are imprisoned under debris and we can listen to their screams.”
Bombing intensification
The Civil Defense spokesman of the Gaza Strip, Mahmoud Bassal, told AFP that “the bombing was (continued) intensely throughout the city of Gaza”, and added that “the number of dead and injured (continuous) to increase.”
“There are deaths, wounds and that disappeared under the rubble after Israeli air attacks aimed at a residential block near Al-Shawa square in the city of Gaza,” he explained, evoking “a great massacre.”
The civil defense had reported 49 Palestinians killed on Monday, including more than half in Gaza-Ville. The restrictions imposed on the media by Israel, who have harassed Gaza since the beginning of the war against Hamas, and the difficulties of access in the field prevent the AFP from reviewing the information of the different parts independently.
A “very short window” to find an agreement
In a visit to Jerusalem, the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, warned that Hamas only had a few days to accept a high fire agreement when Israel has launched strikes particularly fed in the city of Gaza.
“The Israelis began to carry out operations there. So we believe that we have a very short window to conclude an agreement” with the Palestinian Islamist movement, he told reporters.
“We have no more months” but “probably a few days and maybe a few weeks,” Marco Rubio added to journalists who leave Israel for Qatar.
During his visit, the US secretary of state reiterated the support of the United States to Israel and promised on Monday to the government of Benjamin Netanyahu the “unwavering support” from Washington to Israel to eliminate the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Source: BFM TV
