Israel to expand ground offensive

[Lilith7]

Israel told Gazans to go south, where they'd be safe. Now they intend to move against south Gaza. If they do this then surely they can no longer expect any support whatever from the rest of the world - unless of course Israel can tell the world precisely  how they're behaving differently to way in which the Nazis behaved in the warsaw ghetto.
Time they pulled back surely.





https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-eas...gaza-strip


"Israel's top general said that the army was "close to dismantling" Hamas' military operation in the northern Gaza Strip, suggesting military operations soon would expand to areas in which hundreds of thousands of civilians are sheltering.

The air force dropped leaflets near the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, a region that Israel had in recent weeks telegraphed as being relatively safer as airstrikes and fighting raged to the north.

In comments to troops late Thursday, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi said that there was still "work to be completed" in the north but that the military's activity would then expand to "more and more regions," suggesting preparation by the Israel Defence Forces to shift ground forces into the southern part of Gaza.

Halevi was echoed on Friday by the head of the National Security Council, Tzachi Hanegbi, who warned that the recent operations were "only the beginning," adding that "we won't stop until all of the military and control abilities of Hamas and Islamic Jihad are neutralised".

Israel's military operation in Gaza has caused tensions to soar across the region, as Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group and the IDF trade cross-border strikes, and Iran-linked militants in Iraq and Syria target facilities linked to the US-backed military coalition in those two countries in response to Washington's firm support for Israel.

The Gaza war also has sparked conflagration in the occupied West Bank. Extremist settlers have used the conflict as a cover to seize rural Palestinian lands. In crowded refugee camps, Palestinian militants say they are preparing escalation of their own as Israeli security forces step up raids in their communities. Several thousand Palestinians have been detained since October 7, with rights groups warning that many of the arrests are arbitrary and that abuse of Palestinians in custody is spiking.

Doctors Without Borders said last week that Israeli soldiers had repeatedly fired on hospitals in Jenin and blocked ambulances and medical staffers from reaching health-care facilities during raids after October. 7. "Hospitals are not targets and must remain safe spaces," the group said in a statement. "Medical care must not be impeded."