July 3, 2024

Hamas vows ‘full force’ after Israel steps up Gaza ground operations

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Hamas vows 'full force' after Israel steps up Gaza ground operations

Israel targets Hamas tunnel network as communications go down across Gaza with the group vowing 'full force' against occupier

Israel targets Hamas tunnel network as communications go down across Gaza with the group vowing ‘full force’ against occupier.

Hamas said on Saturday its militants in Gaza were ready to confront Israeli attacks with “full force” after Israel’s military widened its air and ground attacks on the Palestinian enclave.

The Palestinian militant group that rules Gaza had said its fighters were clashing with Israeli troops in areas near the border with Israel after Israel reported intensified attacks in Gaza.

By Saturday morning, a cut-off in internet and phone services — which telecom firms and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said was a result of Israeli bombardments — had been continuing for more than 12 hours.

“In addition to the attacks carried out in the last few days, ground forces are expanding their operations tonight,” Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said at a televised news briefing on Friday evening, raising the question whether a long-anticipated ground invasion of Gaza might be starting.

He said Israel’s air force was conducting extensive strikes on tunnels dug by Hamas and on other infrastructure.

Israeli warplanes struck 150 tunnels and underground bunkers in northern Gaza overnight into Saturday, the military said. 

Hamas’s extensive underground installations, many of them located under Gaza City in the territory’s north, are seen as key targets of the offensive. 

A military statement said the sites hit included “terror tunnels, underground combat spaces and additional underground infrastructure”.

In addition, the Israeli military said on Saturday it had killed the head of Hamas’ aerial wing, who had helped plan the October 7 attack by the Islamist group on Israel’s southern towns.

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The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said its fighter jets struck Asem Abu Rakaba, head of the Hamas Aerial Array, who was responsible for Hamas’ UAVs, drones, paragliders, aerial detection and aerial defence.

“He took part in planning the massacre in the communities surrounding the Gaza Strip on October 7. He directed the terrorists who infiltrated Israel on paragliders and was responsible for the drone attacks on IDF posts,” the IDF said.

The armed wing of Hamas said late on Friday its fighters were clashing with Israeli troops in Gaza’s northeastern town of Beit Hanoun and in the central area of Al-Bureij.

“Netanyahu and his defeated army will not be able to achieve any military victory,” Hamas said in a statement early on Saturday, referring to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israeli ground forces had massed outside Gaza, where Israel has been conducting an intense campaign of aerial bombardment since the October 7 attack. 

Israel says 1,400 people, mostly civilians, were killed and more than 200 taken hostage, some of them foreign nationals or with dual Israeli nationality.

Since then, Palestinian health authorities say, Israeli bombing has killed more than 7,000 Palestinians.

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