Visiting the troops mobilized in the Gaza Strip, the Chief of the Israeli Army Staff said that an agreement to release the hostages could be concluded in the coming days, failing which the fighting will continue.
Lack of release of Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip, the “Fight will continue without respite”warned the chief of staff of the Israeli army Eyal Zamir, during a visit to his troops in the Palestinian territory. “I believe that in the coming days, we will know if we can reach an agreement for the release of our hostages. Otherwise, the fight will continue without respite ”said Lieutenant General Zamir, in an army statement sent to AFP on Saturday.
The chief of staff “Made a field visit and an assessment of the situation” Friday in the Gaza Strip, in the company of several high degrees of the army, according to this press release. “War continues, and we will adapt it to changing reality according to our interests”he added, judging that “The success made offer us operational flexibility”.
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The war was triggered by the attack on Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023, which led to the Israeli side the death of 1219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count made from official data. Of the 251 people kidnapped that day, 49 remain hostages in Gaza, 27 of which were declared dead by the army.
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The reprisals of Israel left at least 60,332 dead in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Health of Hamas, deemed reliable by the UN. 898 Israeli soldiers have also been killed since, according to the official assessment of the army.
After almost 22 months of a respite war against Hamas, the Gaza Strip, under Israeli blockade, is now threatened with a “Generalized famine”according to the UN, and totally dependent on the humanitarian aid distributed by trucks or dropped from the air.
“The current campaign of false accusations concerning intentional famine is a deliberate, planned and false attempt to accuse Tsahal, a moral army, of war crimes”denounced the chief of staff in this regard. “The managers of the murders and sufferings of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip are Hamas”he reaffirmed.
This visit to Gaza takes place as the Israeli army has been led for several days a redeployment of its troops in the Palestinian territory. In the week, the army had announced the withdrawal from northern Gaza from its 98th division, made up of elite units, which “Now is preparing for new missions”.
