Israel dedicated its recent seven-day ceasefire to gathering intelligence to plan “surgical airstrikes” to avoid civilian casualties, and its military spokesmen promised that Hamas will receive the “mother of all blows” after the end of the ceasefire. .
Minutes before the ceasefire was set to expire at 7 a.m. Friday morning, Israeli forces said they shot down a Hamas rocket fired from Gaza, breaking the fragile agreement and prompting the shelling of the area.
government spokesperson Eylon Levy said on Friday that “Hamas will now take the mother of all blows” after failing to release all the female hostages promised as part of their ceasefire agreement.
The terrorist organization still holds 20 women hostages, in addition to 117 men and two infants, according to levy.
A Hamas official said he did not know how many hostages had died under the terrorist group’s control since “the number is not important.”
Israel claims there are 137 still in captivity.
Israel spent the week of the ceasefire obtaining intelligence to plan more “surgical airstrikes” to avoid civilian casualties, military analysts say. He took advantage of the last week to obtain information on Hamas positions through his intelligence sources located inside Gaza. REUTERS “This should be a less gratuitous bombing than perhaps we saw in the first seven weeks, but after a lot of intelligence gathering one would expect them to be much more precise,” said former British Army officer Col. Hamish of Bretton Gordon, said. AFP via Getty Images
“Hamas says it does not know how many hostages are still alive and that ‘the number is not important’.” Levy said in a damning tweet. “Israelis value life. Hamas worships death.”
The Israel Defense Forces are still working steadily to “neutralize” Hamas as it enters the next phase of its war, but will work to reduce the civilian death count, a military analyst told The National, a newspaper with based in the United Arab Emirates.
The newspaper said it had used the past week to obtain information on Hamas positions through its intelligence sources housed within the rebel region.
“After a lot of intelligence gathering, you would expect them to be much more precise,” said former British Army officer Colonel Hamish de Bretton Gordon, adding that they will use “more surgical airstrikes” to take out targets in Gaza.
Israel continues to work steadily to “neutralize” Hamas as it enters the next phase of the war after the ceasefire, but will work to reduce the death count in Gaza, a military analyst said. AP However, Israel does not plan to stop its offensive, as government spokesman Eylon Levy said Friday that “Hamas will now receive the mother of all blows” after it failed to free all the hostages. Israel said there are 137 still in captivity. AFP via Getty Images
Brigadier Ben Barry of the International Institute for Strategic Studies think tank also believes that US influence over Israel will play a major role in how the country proceeds with airstrikes.
“The known unknown is the extent to which the United States has leverage over Israel in terms of getting them to try to operate in a way that causes fewer Palestinian civilian casualties,” Barry said.
Many Americans have expressed concern about the high number of Palestinian deaths (estimated at around 14,000, according to Hamas), and Barry does not believe that the US government will continue to tolerate high death tolls.
Hamas claimed Friday that more than 100 people have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire ended. AP
“We will do everything possible to limit civilian casualties,” an Israeli official said, according to The National.
Hamas claimed Friday that more than 100 people have been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire ended.
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