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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Israel remains determined to take control of the southern part of the strip, and in particular Khan Younis, where it believes Hamas’s leader, Yahwa Sinwar, is based, in pursuit of the overall goal of destroying the group’s military and political capacity.

“The IDF knows it cannot conduct a duplicate of the operation in northern Gaza in the south,” said Tamir Hayman, a former head of Israel’s military intelligence, who has been providing advice to his previous employer since 7 October.

On Wednesday, Yahya al-Sarraj, the mayor of Gaza City, told Al Jazeera that 60% of housing units and apartments have been destroyed, roughly in line with analysis from satellite imagery.

Gaza’s northernmost town, Beit Hanoun, was after the initial aerial bombardment attacked and surrounded, and a commander, Col Arye Baat from the 252nd division, a unit of reservists, said it took “about 24 days” to seize military control in heavy fighting.

Oxfam says it and its partners have struggled to deliver aid on the levels required during the current pause in fighting, with water, electricity and full telecoms not restored, with humanitarian workers and machinery to remove the rubble often denied entry.

The stakes have been raised so high by Israel, which argues that the very existence of Hamas on its border amounts to an existential threat, that the simple survival of the group as a coherent force and Sinwar himself would be seen as a defeat.


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