Gaza ‘Will Soon Be a Tent City’ says Israeli Official as IDF Launches 250 Airstrikes in One Hour
- An Israeli defense official told Channel 13 News that Gaza will become a ‘tent city’, as the country’s defense minister said he has ‘released all restraints’
- It comes as IDF spokesperson said troops and artillery are close to Gaza in preparation for a ground invasion ‘to execute the mission we have been given’
Gaza will become a ‘tent city’ and every building will be razed, an Israeli defense official has vowed as the country’s military lines up on the border.
In the early hours of Wednesday, Israeli forces conducted 250 airstrikes in just one hour across northern and eastern parts of the Gaza strip in revenge for Hamas‘ terror attacks.
Now an Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) spokesman said they are sending ‘infantry, armoured soldiers, artillery corps’, plus 300,000 reservists ‘close to the Gaza Strip to execute the mission that we have been given by the Israeli government’.
Jonathan Conricus added: ‘That is to make sure that Hamas at the end of this war won’t have any military capabilities by which they can threaten or kill Israeli civilians.’
As Israelis living close to the border began to evacuate, there was fierce gun fighting between Border Guards and Hamas terrorists in the southern cities of Sderot and Ashkelon.
A series of rocket salvos from Gaza also hit Sderot Wednesday morning, injuring at least one civilian and damaging five buildings.
Three Israeli soldiers were killed in a confrontation with ‘terrorist infiltrators’ to the north on the frontier with Lebanon, where Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters and Lebanon’s Hezbollah had launched a smattering of attacks.
On Wednesday morning, air raid sirens blared in Israel’s north as Hezbollah launched new rockets.
On Saturday, the armed wing of Hamas streamed across the Gaza border fence and launched a ruthless attack on unsuspecting soldiers and civilians in what EU chief Ursula von der Leyen has described as an ‘act of war’.
At least 169 Israeli soldiers have been killed in fighting with Hamas, the army said on Wednesday.
‘As of this morning, we’ve informed the families of 169 fallen IDF soldiers,’ military spokesman Daniel Hagari told reporters.
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