IDF spokesperson says military ‘powerfully deployed’ north of Gaza and civilians still urged to move south
Israeli forces have surrounded Gaza City and are attacking Hamas infrastructure and destroying tunnels used by militants to launch attacks, the Israeli military said.
Hecht told a news briefing: “We are powerfully deployed in the north. We will be slowly doing operations within the city taking care of their infrastructure. The humanitarian valve is still open, we have given people an option to move south and it is still an option.” Images showed Israeli fighters peering down a reinforced concrete shaft in what appeared to be a bombed building. Another clip showed a hole in the ground covered by dried vegetation, which Hecht described as the entrance to a tunnel.
Asked how Israel would know it had reached its goal of destroying Hamas, Hecht said it would be when Hamas’s “leadership is gone, their military capabilities are gone”, so there could never be a repeat of the 7 October attacks.
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