Israel says the war in southern Gaza is coming to an end...
Israel says the war in southern Gaza is coming to an end...
Following the announcement by the militant group's health ministry that the number of deaths in the territory had exceeded 24,000, israel said that its operations against Hamas in southern Gaza will shortly transition into a less aggressive phase. After more than 100 days of warfare, the international community has put tremendous pressure on prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to stop the conflict as the number of civilian casualties is rising and the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is getting worse. Fears of an escalation outside the Gaza Strip have been aroused simultaneously by deadly shooting in the occupied West Bank, gunfire across Israel's data-border with Lebanon, and US military strikes on Iran-backed Yemeni rebels who are supporting Hamas.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reiterated calls for an end to the conflict on Monday, saying: "We require a rapid humanitarian in nature a halt to to ensure adequate aid gets to where it is required, to facilitate the release of hostages, and to quell the blazes of wider war -- because the more time the conflict in Gaza lasts, higher the possibility of raising the level and miscalculation."Since october 7, when Hamas militants launched an unprecedented offensive on israel that left nearly 1,140 people dead, largely civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data, fighting has raged throughout Gaza. That day, militants also took roughly 250 hostages back to Gaza; 132 of them, according to israel, are still there; at least 25 of them are thought to have died. At a press conference on Monday, Israeli Defense minister Yoav Gallant indicated that intense operations in the southern cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah would soon be coming to an end, as the army had just moved its attention from the devastated north of Gaza to those locations.
Following the announcement by the militant group's health ministry that the number of deaths in the territory had exceeded 24,000, israel said that its operations against Hamas in southern Gaza will shortly transition into a less aggressive phase. After more than 100 days of warfare, the international community has put tremendous pressure on prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to stop the conflict as the number of civilian casualties is rising and the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is getting worse. Fears of an escalation outside the Gaza Strip have been aroused simultaneously by deadly shooting in the occupied West Bank, gunfire across Israel's data-border with Lebanon, and US military strikes on Iran-backed Yemeni rebels who are supporting Hamas.UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres reiterated calls for an end to the conflict on Monday, saying: "We require a rapid humanitarian in nature a halt to to ensure adequate aid gets to where it is required, to facilitate the release of hostages, and to quell the blazes of wider war -- because the more time the conflict in Gaza lasts, higher the possibility of raising the level and miscalculation."Since october 7, when Hamas militants launched an unprecedented offensive on israel that left nearly 1,140 people dead, largely civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data, fighting has raged throughout Gaza. That day, militants also took roughly 250 hostages back to Gaza; 132 of them, according to israel, are still there; at least 25 of them are thought to have died. At a press conference on Monday, Israeli Defense minister Yoav Gallant indicated that intense operations in the southern cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah would soon be coming to an end, as the army had just moved its attention from the devastated north of Gaza to those locations.