Israel spent seven days of the recent ceasefire gathering intelligence to plan “surgical airstrikes” to avoid civilian casualties, and its military spokesman promised Hamas would receive the “mother of all blows” after the end of the ceasefire.
Minutes before the ceasefire was set to expire at 7am on Friday, the Israeli army said it shot down a Hamas rocket fired from Gaza, violating the fragile agreement and leading to attacks in the area.
Government spokesman Eylon Levy said on Friday that “Hamas will now take the mother of all blows” after it failed to release all the female hostages promised as part of their ceasefire deal.
The terrorist organization still has 20 female hostages in custody, as well as 117 men and two babies, according to Levy.
A Hamas official said he did not know how many hostages had died under the terror group’s control because “the number is not important.”
Israel claims there are 137 still in captivity.
Israel spent the week-long ceasefire gathering intelligence to plan more “surgical airstrikes” to avoid civilian casualties, military analysts claim. It used last week to obtain information on the position of Hamas through its intelligence sources stationed inside Gaza. REUTERS “This should be a less reasonable bombing than we might have seen in the first seven weeks, but after a lot of intelligence gathering, one would have expected it to be more accurate,” former British Army officer Col. Hamish de Bretton Gordon, said. AFP via Getty Images
“Hamas says it does not know how many hostages are still alive and ‘the number is not important,'” Levy said in a damning tweet. “Israelis value life. Hamas worships death.”
The Israel Defense Forces are still working hard to “neutralize” Hamas as it enters the next phase of the war, but will try to reduce the number of civilian casualties, a military analyst told The National, a newspaper based in the United Arab Emirates.
The newspaper said it had used last week to obtain information on Hamas’s position through its intelligence sources stationed inside the rogue territory.
“After a lot of intelligence gathering, one would expect them to be much more accurate,” said former British Army officer Col. Hamish de Bretton Gordon, adding they would use “more surgical airstrikes” to take out targets in Gaza.
Israel is still working hard to “neutralize” Hamas as it enters the next phase of the war after the ceasefire, but will seek to reduce the death toll in Gaza, military analysts say. AP However, Israel has no plans to stop its wrongdoing, as a government spokesman, Eylon Levy, said Friday that “Hamas will now take the mother of all blows” after it failed to release all the female hostages. Israel says there are 137 still in captivity. AFP via Getty Images
Brigadier Ben Barry, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies think tank, also thinks US influence over Israel will play a big role in how the country proceeds with airstrikes.
“The known unknown is how much leverage the US has over Israel in terms of getting them to try and operate in a way that causes less Palestinian civilian casualties,” Barry said.
Many Americans have expressed concern over the high Palestinian death toll – estimated at around 14,000, according to Hamas – and Barry does not think the US government will continue to tolerate such a high death toll.
Hamas claimed on Friday that more than 100 people had been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire ended. AP
“We will work hard to limit civilian casualties,” an Israeli official said, according to The National.
Hamas claimed on Friday that more than 100 people had been killed in Gaza since the ceasefire ended.
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