The Israel Defense Forces continue to expand their ground operations in the Gaza Strip. stated on the evening of October 30, IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari.
Additional infantry, armored and engineer forces are being deployed to Gaza “to continue coordinated operations on land, air and sea.”
“Over the past 24 hours, our forces have eliminated dozens of terrorists. <...> Earlier today, in the north, we eliminated a terrorist cell that tried to shell Israeli territory in the Rosh Hanikra area,” Hagari said.
He added that the IDF continues to “deploy along the northern border in a state of very high alert.”
Let us recall that earlier on October 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the current round of the crisis in the Middle East began with a terrorist attack on Israel. But Putin assessed Tel Aviv’s response actions critically, mainly in terms of their humanitarian consequences.
“We also see that instead of punishing criminals and terrorists, unfortunately, they began to take revenge on the principle of collective responsibility,” Putin added.
Putin said that it is impossible to justify the events in the Gaza Strip, “when hundreds of thousands of people are being indiscriminately killed,” but “we have no right to be guided by emotions.”
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2023-10-30 20:33:10
