On Sunday, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant instructed the implementation of the safe distance plan and preparations for the evacuation of settlements near the southern border with the Gaza Strip and the northern border with Lebanon.
The Israeli Ministry of Defense said, in a statement, that Defense Minister Yoav Galant agreed to implement the safe distance plan to evacuate settlements adjacent to the fence in the Gaza Strip, and indicated readiness to implement the plan in the north of the country as well.
The safe distance plan includes evacuating settlements near the northern and southern border areas, so that there is a distance of several kilometers free of population between Israel and these borders.
Gallant requested the provision of weapons and ammunition to the settlements adjacent to the security fence and to the team of Israeli army officers and mayors, to help manage the situation on the home front.
A state of war
Earlier on Sunday, the Israeli Cabinet for Security and Political Affairs approved a state of war, according to a statement issued by the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
At dawn yesterday, Saturday, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced the start of a military operation called “Al-Aqsa Flood” from the Gaza Strip, targeting Israeli military sites, airports and fortifications, in response to the ongoing attacks by Israeli forces and settlers against the Palestinian people.
On the other hand, the Israeli army announced the launch of Operation Iron Swords, saying in a statement that its planes had begun launching raids in several areas of the Gaza Strip on targets belonging to Hamas.
On the northern front, the Israeli army bombed via drone on Sunday morning a tent erected by the Hezbollah group in the occupied Shebaa Farms area in southern Lebanon, in response to the firing of rocket shells from Lebanon at Israeli military sites, according to an Anadolu correspondent.
2023-10-08 20:34:50
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