IDF announces when it will launch ground operation in Gaza Strip
Netanyahu visits troops near Gaza border, says "everything is ready"
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Jonathan Conricus said that a military operation against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip will be launched after an assessment of the situation with the civilian population in the area of its expected conduct.
Source. This was reported by CNN.
Conricus noted that Hamas is preventing the evacuation of residents of northern Gaza, turning them into a "human shield". This is done by sending relevant messages, placing roadblocks, and creating obstacles along the route.
According to Conricus, the IDF needs to understand how many civilians remain in the area and how many of them Hamas is preventing from evacuating. Residents of northern Gaza will be able to "return only when the IDF declares it safe."
Conricus called on them to "act wisely and leave the danger zone."
Earlier, the Israeli Defense Forces called on residents of the Gaza Strip to evacuate via two approved routes by Saturday evening, October 14.
The day before, the IDF called on residents of the northern part of the Gaza Strip to evacuate to the south in the morning and gave them 24 hours to do so. Human rights and humanitarian organizations said it was impossible to do so in such a short time.
According to the UN, nearly a million Palestinians fled their homes in the Gaza Strip after Hamas attacked Israel last Saturday.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled the northern part of the Gaza Strip after Israel warned them the day before that civilians should move to the south of the Strip within 24 hours, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East reported.
It became known that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Israeli troops deployed to the Gaza Strip – photos of the meeting were published on Netanyahu's Twitter page.
"With our soldiers in the Gaza Strip, on the front lines. We are all ready," Netanyahu wrote in a comment to the post.
Netanyahu also visited the kibbutzim of Be'eri and Kfar Azza, two of the border settlements that were most affected by the Hamas attack.
Background. The day before, it was reported that the Israeli military carried out the first ground raids in Gaza.
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