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The Israeli army has announced that it will change tactics in the coming weeks and wage a different war in the Gaza Strip. Among other things, to free their hands for a possible expansion of the fighting in northern Israel against the Lebanese movement Hezbollah. Reuters warned that any new escalation could risk the outbreak of a larger regional war. An eleven-year-old boy spoke from the Gaza Strip. “My wish for 2024 is not to die.” Hamas has shown that it is capable of endangering the lives of civilians even after twelve weeks of fighting with the Israeli army.
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Description: A hospital in Gaza after an Israeli airstrike
At the time of the Palestinian Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, the Americans increased their presence in the region through ships. Reuters reportsthat an American aircraft carrier, a large combat force, was now on its way out of the region. The Israeli army also withdrew some of its troops from Gaza City. However, fierce fighting continues in other zones.
The Reuters agency, citing one of the sources from official positions, said that the Israeli army is preparing a change in its strategy – it will switch from general strikes to local clean-up operations, especially in the north of Gaza.
“But tanks remained in other parts of northern Gaza and medics said some people trying to return to their homes in southern Gaza were killed by Israeli fire on Sunday,” Reuters wrote.
With this change in strategy, the Israelis are responding to Washington’s repeated calls to change the nature of the war in Gaza and to pay more attention to the lives of civilians. “The scale of suffering in Gaza, where bombardments have driven almost all residents from their homes, has prompted Israel’s Western allies, including the United States, to urge the country to tone down its offensive,” Reuters reported.
The Times of Israel server wrote, citing other sourcesthat the administration of US President Joe Biden put pressure on Israeli politicians and demanded that the nature of the war really change.
“Israel’s plans to withdraw some forces from fighting in the Gaza Strip appear to be a signal that Israel is moving to lower-intensity fighting in the Palestinian enclave, a move that the Biden administration has been pushing for,” a US official said official told NBC News.
According to the Times of Israel server, the Israeli army will withdraw five brigades from Gaza. At the same time, the military is said to be prepared to wage war against Hamas that is expected to last until 2024 and has said it is prepared for protracted fighting, albeit in different forms than the high-intensity campaign waged so far.
The head of the IDF’s Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, said Monday that fighting in Gaza “continues with different methods, in different intensities and in different forms.” Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said last week that the army is expanding its operations in southern and central Gaza as it comes close to disbanding all Hamas battalions in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, but warned that there would be too A war would come for “many more months”.
Meanwhile, a child’s voice could be heard from Palestine.
“My wish for 2024 is not to die… Our childhood is over. There is no toilet, no food or water. Just tents,” said 11-year-old Layan Harara in Rafah, Gaza. In the city zoo, people camped between cages of starving animals.
In addition, according to Reuters, if the activities of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement against Israel gain momentum, some of the conscripts may return to their civilian jobs and some may be released for possible operations in northern Israel.
An Israeli official said the situation on the Lebanese border “must not continue.” The next six months are a critical moment.” Reuters warned that any new escalation risks a larger regional war. The Israeli army’s war with terrorists from the Palestinian Hamas movement threatened to escalate into a wider conflict after Yemeni rebels – the Iran-backed Houthis – fired on ships from their positions in the Red Sea.
In addition, Hamas demonstrated its ability to endanger the lives of civilians even after 12 weeks of fighting with the Israeli army when it fired rockets into Tel Aviv on Monday evening.
There are also tensions in the West Bank.
“In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, 2023 was the deadliest year on record for Palestinians, with 307 deaths since the Gaza war began on October 7, the United Nations said.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also currently holding political talks about what will happen to the Gaza Strip after the war ends. According to the Jerusalem Post website He wants to hold these talks before US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s expected visit to the region.
According to the Israeli newspaper’s server, there is a plan according to which the administration of the areas of the Gaza Strip liberated from Hamas would be supported by local Palestinians who would participate in the distribution of humanitarian aid.
“It is very important that Israel presents its plan for the day after,” Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman Yuli Edelstein (Likud) told The Jerusalem Post. “If we don’t develop our own plans, someone else, perhaps the Americans, will step forward with their understanding of what is supposed to happen,” he continued. “I am not sure that these proposals are ‘necessarily’ consistent with our views,” Edelstein warned.
Netanyahu has made clear that Hamas should no longer rule or even exist in Gaza and that Israel must maintain security control over the enclave. However, the US has repeatedly said that the Palestinians should govern their own territory. Netanyahu counters that he cannot leave control of Gaza in the hands of terrorists.
Edelstein also stressed that an Israeli plan could only work if it was clear that Hamas would no longer try to take power in the Gaza Strip.
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