{"id":10686,"date":"2023-10-26T13:58:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T13:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/26\/israel-conducts-raid-in-gaza-as-netanyahu-says-ground-incursion-will-come\/"},"modified":"2023-10-26T13:58:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T13:58:36","slug":"israel-conducts-raid-in-gaza-as-netanyahu-says-ground-incursion-will-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/26\/israel-conducts-raid-in-gaza-as-netanyahu-says-ground-incursion-will-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel conducts raid in Gaza as Netanyahu says ground incursion will come"},"content":{"rendered":"

Israel conducted a \u201ctargeted raid\u201d using tanks in northern Gaza before withdrawing, its military said Thursday, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned a\u00a0ground incursion\u00a0into the besieged enclave will take place. <\/p>\n

Video published by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Thursday showed tanks and armored vehicles, including a bulldozer, moving on a road near a fence in northern Gaza. The tanks fired artillery, and some destruction could be seen nearby. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe actually engaged the enemy, killing terrorists who were planning to conduct attacks against us with anti-tank guided missiles,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe soldiers exited the area at the end of the activity,\u201d the IDF statement concluded. <\/p>\n

The raid comes as new satellite images revealed the devastation wrought by Israel\u2019s bombs in the besieged enclave. <\/p>\n

As the humanitarian crisis reaches a critical point in Gaza, with daily airstrikes, life-saving fuel on the verge of running out and health services crippled, pressure is building on the international community to get Israel to allow\u00a0desperately needed aid into Gaza, with more countries advocating for a \u201chumanitarian pause\u201d in fighting. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are raining down hellfire on Hamas,\u201d Netanyahu said in a televised address Wednesday evening, while claiming Israel has \u201calready eliminated thousands of terrorists \u2013 and this is only the beginning.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAt the same time, we are preparing for a ground incursion,\u201d he added, but said the decision on when such action would be taken would be decided by Israel\u2019s War Cabinet. <\/p>\n

The prime minister also acknowledged for the first time that he will \u201chave to give answers\u201d for the intelligence failures that allowed the worst terror attack in Israeli history, saying it will be \u201cexamined fully\u201d after the war. <\/p>\n

Israel has vowed to wipe out\u00a0Hamas, the militant group which controls Gaza, in response to its October 7 deadly terror attacks and kidnap rampage in which 1,400 people, mostly civilians, were killed and more than 200\u00a0taken hostage. <\/p>\n

Its retaliatory air assault on what Israel calls Hamas \u201cterror infrastructure\u201d has since devastated the densely-populated 140-square-mile\u00a0enclave, which had been described by rights groups as an \u201copen-air prison\u201d long before the current war began. <\/p>\n

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New satellite images released by Maxar taken on October 21, show significant destruction to sites across northern Gaza, with entire neighborhoods flattened in eastern Beit Hanoun and similar devastation near the Al Shati Refugee Camp, Atatra and Izbat Beit Hanoun. <\/p>\n

Israeli strikes have killed more than 6,400 people and injured a further 17,000, according to information from Hamas-controlled health authorities in Gaza and published by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Ramallah. <\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Al Jazeera said its bureau chief in Gaza, Wael Al-Dahdouh, lost his wife, son, daughter and grandson in what it said was an Israeli airstrike. The blast hit a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip where the family was taking shelter after being displaced, according to Al Jazeera. In total, 12 members of the Al-Dahdouh family were killed in the blast, including nine children, a statement from the family said Thursday. <\/p>\n

\u201cStrikes on military ta\ufeffrgets are subject to relevant provisions of international law, including the taking of feasible precautions to mitigate civilian casualties,\u201d it added. <\/p>\n

But harrowing photos show Al-Dahdouh seeing the bodies of his wife and children in the morgue. In one image he can be seen holding the body of his daughter, who is wrapped in a white shroud. <\/p>\n

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), at least 24 journalists have died since the start of this conflict as of Wednesday. Twenty of those killed are Palestinian, three are Israeli, and one is a Lebanese journalist, CPJ said. <\/p>\n

Families that fled south in an attempt to flee the bombs and staying in UN shelters are grappling with overcrowded conditions which are \u201cseverely constraining access to basic assistance and essential services, increasing health and protection risks, and negatively affecting mental health,\u201d the UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA) warned Thursday. <\/p>\n

A total of 1.4 million people \u2013 of Gaza\u2019s population of more than 2 million \u2013 have been displaced since October 7, with almost 629,000 people living in UN shelters, OCHA said. Half of Gaza\u2019s population are children. <\/strong> <\/p>\n

The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza said Wednesday it will have to halt aid operations within a day if fuel is not delivered, saying it would mark the end of a \u201clifeline\u201d for civilians. <\/p>\n

\u201cDo we provide fuel for desalination plants for drinking water? Can we provide fuel to hospitals? Can we provide the essential fuel that is currently producing the bread that is feeding people in Gaza?\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Nearly three weeks since the outbreak of fighting, the UN\u2019s Security Council remains divided on how to proceed with the crisis. Two differing resolutions on the matter, introduced by the US and Russia, both failed to pass on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

The draft resolution from the US called for \u201chumanitarian pauses,\u201d not a ceasefire, to allow for aid to reach Gazan civilians. The US previously vetoed\u00a0a Brazilian draft\u00a0calling for a humanitarian pause. <\/p>\n

The European Union may also lean toward calling for a \u201cshort humanitarian pause\u201d in Gaza after leaders meet on Thursday, a senior diplomat said. Several leaders have already voiced some version of this, including Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and the foreign ministers of Ireland and Slovenia. <\/p>\n

Qatar, which is helping to mediate with Egypt, US, Israel and Hamas, is hopeful for a breakthrough soon on negotiations to release hostages held by the militant group, the prime minister and foreign minister said Wednesday. <\/p>\n

The hostage crisis is a truly international one. <\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s government press office said 135 hostages \u2013 more than half of those being held by Hamas \u2013 hold foreign passports from 25 different countries. <\/p>\n

They include 54 Thai nationals, 15 Argentinians, and 12 citizens from Germany and the US. <\/p>\n

Four\u00a0hostages\u00a0\u2013 two American and two Israeli \u2013 have been freed so far.\u00a0Talks to secure the release of the rest of the\u00a0hostages\u00a0being held by\u00a0Hamas in Gaza\u00a0are ongoing, Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani\u00a0said. <\/p>\n

US President Joe Biden said Wednesday he told Netanyahu that if it\u2019s possible to secure the release of\u00a0hostages in Gaza ahead of an Israeli ground invasion, he should do so. <\/p>\n

But Biden said flatly \u201cno\u201d when asked whether he\u2019d sought assurances from his Israeli counterpart that he would hold off on a ground invasion while the\u00a0hostages remain in custody. <\/p>\n

This is a developing story and will be updated. <\/em> <\/p>\n\n

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