Israel declares that the city of Gaza is a combat zone, says that the bodies of 2 hostages recover while expanding the war

Israel’s army said Friday that he had launched the “initial stages” of a planned offensive to take the city of Gaza, stating that the largest population center in the Palestinian territory is a “dangerous combat zone.” Israel’s defense forces said that the daily “humanitarian pauses” in fighting in the city of Gaza, which have allowed food and other help materials during the hours of the day.

As Israel advanced with its planned expansion of the war against Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that Ilan Weiss’s body, among the 251 people taken as hostages during Hamas’s hostage, on October 7, 2023, which caused the war in Gaza, had recovered from the enclave.

Netanyahu said that the body of a second hostage had also been returned to Israel and that forensic teams identified.

Israeli officials, including Netanyahu, had made their Plans to push the city of Gaza Of course for weeks. The expansion of the war, which was announced along with an extended call of 60,000 Israeli military reservists, attracted international conviction from the moment it was announced.

France, Great Britain, Canada and Australia have criticized Netanyahu’s plans for the wide offensive in Gaza City, and all recently have announced that they will recognize a Palestinian state.

Tens of thousands of Israeli citizens have also taken to the streets to protest and demand that Netanyahu reach an agreement with Hamas to ensure the safe release of the remaining hostages, of which 50 remain in Gaza, and 20 of which are still believed to be alive.

The members of the hostage family were among the leaders of a movement that organized a national strike on August 16, which coincided with more street protests with Canta: “We did not win a war on the bodies of the hostages.”

Many hostage families have expressed concern that the life of surviving hostages could be in danger of increased military operations in the largest city in Gaza. Others, however, think that more military pressure will lead to the fall of Hamas.

Netanyahu and his cabinet have also been motionless about criticism inside and outside the country.

“We will intensify our attacks until we bring back all the hostages kidnapped and dismantle Hamas,” Israeli Army spokesman Avichay Adraee said on Friday.

The most important ally of Netanyahu, President Trump, has pressed for the end of the war, but has focused greatly on what comes after the fight. He has not explicitly supported or expressed the objection to an expanded military assault to the city of Gaza.

The images published on social networks on Friday morning seemed to show great explosions in the vicinity of the city of Gaza.

The area has been housing hundreds of thousands of displaced people who have fled from fighting, and now faminethat Israel denies, in other parts of the decimated Palestinian enclave.

The city also houses some of the small critical and health infrastructure centers that are still in Gaza. On Wednesday, the IDF warned people in the city of Gaza to leave and go further south, calling an evacuation of the “inevitable” city.

As the war in Gaza approaches at the end of its second full year, International pressure He has been growing in the Netanyahu government to end the conflict and allow more humanitarian help.

According to the Ministry of Health of Gaza, led by Hamas, the Israel War in Gaza has killed 63,025 people. The Ministry does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in their figures.

Israel disputes the number of deaths reported by Palestinian officials, but the United Nations says it is the most reliable count available since Israel has not allowed independent journalists to enter Gaza and operate freely since the war began.

Tucker Reals contributed to this report.

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