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Zamir says IDF approving plans for war’s next stage ahead of Gaza City offensive
[IsraelTimes] ‘We will continue to strike until Hamas is defeated,’ says IDF chief during visit to Gaza; Hamas: Relocation of Gaza City residents is ‘new wave of genocide’
During a visit to the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip on Sunday morning, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said the military will approve "the plan for the next stage of the war" later in the day, as Israel gears up to expand its ongoing offensive against Hamas
 ..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
by conquering Gaza City.
His comments came after the security cabinet voted earlier this month to approve a military offensive in the northern Gaza Strip with the aim of defeating and capturing what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called "the last Hamas stronghold," which is the Paleostinian enclave’s largest city.
The plans, based on a general outline green-lit by Zamir last week, were discussed at the Southern Command Saturday night.
In remarks published by the IDF, Zamir said: "Today we are approving the plan for the next stage of the war."
"We will maintain the momentum of Operation Gideon’s Chariots while focusing on Gaza City," he said, referring to a military offensive against Hamas that was launched in May.
"We will continue to strike until Hamas is defeated, with our eyes on the hostages. We will act with a sophisticated, measured, and responsible strategy. The IDF will employ all its capabilities on land, in the air, and at sea in order to strike Hamas with force," Zamir said.
The IDF chief said, "Soon we will move on to the next stage of Operation Gideon’s Chariots, in which we will continue to deepen the harm to Hamas in Gaza City until its defeat."
"Operation Gideon’s Chariots has met its objectives," Zamir said, adding that "Hamas no longer possesses the same capabilities it had before the operation; we have dealt it a severe blow."
Zamir said the offensive against the terror group is not "localized," but rather part of a "long-term and planned program, with a multifront vision to strike all components of the axis, first and foremost Iran."
The plans to expand offensive operations in Gaza comes following 22 months of war that have created dire humanitarian conditions in the enclave, and raised international alarm over the fate of the war-torn Strip, which is home to about 2.2 million people. It has also drawn sharp backlash in Israel, where relatives of hostages kidnapped by Hamas were holding a nationwide strike Sunday in protest of the plan. They are calling for an end to the war through a negotiated hostage release deal.
As part of the plan to conquer Gaza City, the military is gearing up to "relocate" the city’s residents, which some estimates put at over one million, to refugee areas in southern Gaza.
Ahead of the plan, Israel announced Saturday that it will renew the supply of tents and shelter equipment to Gaza, which has not been allowed for 26 weeks, "as part of the IDF’s preparations to move the population from combat zones to the southern Gaza Strip for their protection."
Responding to the planned population transfer, Hamas denounced what it called a "new wave of genocide and displacement," saying that the planned deployment of tents and other shelter equipment by Israel into southern Gaza was a "blatant deception" intended to "cover up a brutal crime that the occupation forces prepare to execute."
HAMAS SAYS IDF STRIKES KILL AT LEAST 18
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon...
Israeli strikes and gunfire killed at least 18 Paleostinians in Gaza on Sunday, including seven people shot while waiting to collect food aid, according to Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency.
The figures could not be verified and Israel denies deliberately shooting those waiting for aid, although it says troops fire warning shots at those who endanger the forces.
Civil defense front man Mahmud Bassal, whom Israel has accused of being an active Hamas operative, told AFP that seven people were killed in an Israeli dronezap that hit a hospital courtyard in Gaza City, in the territory’s north.
Witnesses said the victims were members of a Hamas unit, which a source from the terror group described as responsible for distributing aid and "fighting thieves."
Witnesses on Sunday reported Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s across the Gaza Strip overnight and into the morning.
Bassal said four people were killed in a strike that hit a tent sheltering displaced Paleostinians in the southern area of Khan Younis, and added that Israel continued its intense bombardment of Gaza City’s Zeitoun, where troops have carried out a ground operation for the past week.
He said civil defense crews were facing "enormous difficulties reaching those trapped under the rubble" due to the ongoing violence and lack of equipment.
161 AID PALLETS AIRDROPPED; DEMARK, INDONESIA JOIN EFFORT
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon...
aircraft from Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Belgium, La Belle France, Italia, the Netherlands, and — for the first time — Denmark and Indonesia airdropped 161 pallets of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the IDF said.
Each pallet contains around one ton of food.
Indonesia, the country with the largest Moslem population in the world, does not have relations with Israel.
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