The Israeli Defense Minister announced that they would send more troops to operations against Hamas in Rafah

The Israeli Defense Minister announced on Thursday that more forces are scheduled to be sent to participate in ground fighting in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where military operations are “intensifying.”

“More troops will enter” In Rafah, and “Activity [militar] Yoav Galant announced during a visit to Rafah on Wednesday, according to a statement issued by his office, that “the escalation will intensify.”

Gallant noted that Israeli forces “destroyed several tunnels” And “hundreds of goals [terroristas] “They have already been hit” in the area.

In early May, Israeli forces took control of the Gaza side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, despite international concerns about the 1.4 million civilians trapped there.

The United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees, UNRWA, indicated this “600,000 people have fled Rafah since the intensification of military operations.” In that city.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intention to launch a large-scale ground operation in Rafah, to dismantle the remaining Hamas brigades, he said.

Gallant claimed that the Israeli military attack hit the Palestinian Islamic group hard.

“Hamas is not an organization that can reorganize itself, it does not have reserve forces, it does not have supply reserves and it does not have the ability to deal with the terrorists that we strike,” he declared.

The result is that we are working to exhaust Hamas.”He confirmed.

However, the United States, Israel's main ally, said it did not see any credible Israeli plans to protect civilians in Rafah.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced on NBC on Sunday that the Israeli operation in Rafah could create “chaos” and “chaos” and, after some time, the return of the Islamist organization.

Although Gallant is resolute in maintaining this attack, Yesterday, he asked Netanyahu to find a Palestinian alternative to Hamas to rule in the Gaza Strip that does not include the army or the Israeli authorities.

The minister confirmed that he has been trying since October to persuade the Israeli authorities to address the need to find a “non-hostile local government and Palestinian alternative” to the devastated Strip.

Gallant explained that there would only be “one day after” Hamas in Gaza with a Palestinian government accompanied by international actors, because if Israel decided to form a military government in Gaza, this would become Israel's “major military and security effort.” The country over the next few years, at the expense of neglecting other fronts.

(Information from Agence France-Presse)