Over 3500 targets hit as Israel goes after Hamas in Gaza

According to Israeli media, the Israel Defence Forces have used at least 6,000 rounds of ammunition to attack over 3,600 targets in the Gaza Strip.

The IDF claims that recent assaults were directed against a senior Hamas operative as well as other terrorist group members.

The Times of Israel reported that the military asserts to be attacking all of Hamas’s assets in the Gaza Strip, including war rooms, military outposts, factories for producing weapons, and areas associated to the terror group’s top leadership.

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant warned the Hamas terror organisation on Thursday that “2023 is not 1943” and, in an apparent allusion to the persecution of Jews under the Nazi dictatorship in Germany, added that modern Jews have “different capabilities”.

At a meeting in Brussels, he addressed 31 NATO allies during a briefing.

“We have been hit hard. Yet make no mistake – 2023 is not 1943. We are the same Jews, but we have different capabilities. The State of Israel is strong. We are united and powerful,” he said.
Gallant also briefed them about atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists against children, women, men and the elderly.

He further asserted that Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) will destroy Hamas and “will hunt down every last man with the blood of children”.

“Hamas is the ‘ISIS’ of Gaza, a savage organization, funded and supported by Iran. Hamas is ISIS,” he says. “The ‘ISIS’ of Gaza will not exist, on our borders. The IDF will destroy Hamas. And we will hunt down every last man, with the blood of our children, on his hands,” Gallant said.

Meanwhile, Israeli Defence Forces also said that Hamas brought ISIS flags to Israel when they had infiltrated various parts of South Israel last weekend.

In a post shared on X, Israeli Defence Forces stated, “Hamas brought ISIS flags to massacre Israeli children, women and men. Hamas is a genocidal terrorist organisation. Hamas is worse than ISIS.”

Since the Hamas attack, Israel has had 1,300 fatalities and 3300 injuries, including 28 people in critical and 350 people in serious condition.

According to the report, it is still unknown what became of the 150 persons who were reportedly kidnapped and transferred to the Gaza Strip after the Hamas attack.

Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, a spokesman for the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), reported that the military has already informed the families of 97 captives who were being held prisoner by terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

(With agency inputs)