Israel launches a new offensive to press Hamas to release hostages as the food crisis continues in Gaza

The Israeli army launched a new operation in the Gaza pull To press Hamas to release the remaining hostages, said Defense Minister on Saturday.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said the Army of Operation Gideon Gideon began and was being directed with “great strength” by Israel’s army.

“The Heroism of the Soldiers of the IDF, the unity of the people and the determination of the political step increase the possibilities of return of the hostages, as it was then and how it is now,” he said.

The operation follows days of intensive strikes through the territory that killed hundreds of people.

IDF spokesman, Colonel Avichai Adraee, in a video recorded video of the Gaza Strip, said the troops were “expanding and increasing bombardment and pressure on Hamas throughout the strip, from north to south, above and below the ground, and even out of the strip.”

The army said it will not stop until the hostages are returned and dismantled.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, promised In the early week to increase pressure on Hamas With the aim of destroying the militant group that Gaza has ruled for almost two decades.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, more than 150 people in the last 24 hours, more than 150 people. He said that more than 3,000 have been killed since Israel broke the fire of January on March 18.

Humanitarian crisis continues

The operation also occurs when the president of the United States, Trump concluded his trip to Middle East without a visit to Israel.

There had been hope that Mr. Trump’s visit to the region could increase the possibilities of a high fire agreement or the resumption of humanitarian aid to Gaza, which Israel has avoided for almost three months.

On Friday, Trump echoed a warning call that people were starving in the Palestinian territory.

“We are looking at Gaza. And let’s take care of that. Many people are starving,” the president told journalists.

Israel has imposed a blockade for more than two months to Gaza, leading the United Nations agencies and other humanitarian groups to warn that fuel supplies, food and medicines in the Palestinian territory that, before the war, was home to approximately 2.4 million people.

Food security experts say that Gaza will be hungry if the blockade does not get up.

The Israeli government has repeatedly denied that Gaza face the starvation and said that the blockade is to force Hamas to free the remaining hostages taken in the October 7 attack.

According to the World Food Program, there are at least 14,000 children in Gaza who are malnourished.

One of those children is Najwa Hajaj, who had to be discharged from a hospital because he ran out of food and medicine. His mother says that the 6 -year -old girl weighs only 13 pounds, which is the average weight of a 3 -month -old baby.

“She is dying in my hands, and I can’t do anything,” said her father, Hussain Hajaj, to News themezone. “I can barely feed it, I don’t know what to do.”

Meanwhile, negotiations between Israel and Hamas have not yet achieved progress in the capital of Qatar, Doha. Hamas, which he launched An American Israeli hostage as a gesture of good will Before Trump’s Middle East trip, he insists on an agreement that ends the three -year war, something that Israel said he will not agree.

Of the hostages that remain in Gaza, Israel believes that up to 23 are still alive, although the Israeli authorities have expressed concern about the state of three of them.

The war began on October 7, 2023, when the terrorists led by Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and kidnaping another 251. The retaliation offensive of Israel has killed more than 53,000 Palestinians, many of them women and children, according to the Ministry of Health of Gaza, which does not differentiate between civilians and combatants.

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