The Israeli military entered the Gaza Strip on Friday evening after intense shelling by artillery and rockets fired from military aircraft.
Source: New York Times citing sources in the Israeli army
Details: The publication notes that the attacks came three weeks after cross-border Hamas raids that killed 1,400 people in Israel and sparked a war.
At the same time, two leading Palestinian mobile networks, Jawwal and Paltel, reported interrupted mobile and Internet communications after the strikes.
Israeli Maj. Gen. Nir Dinar said Israeli troops had crossed the border and were fighting in the Gaza Strip, but he declined to say whether this was the start of a full-scale ground invasion that Israel has been claiming for weeks.
The New York Times adds that over the past two days, Israeli troops, particularly with tanks, have made small incursions into Gaza without staying there for long.
“Our troops and tanks are in the Gaza Strip – they shoot and act,” Dinar said, adding: “But our troops and tanks were in Gaza yesterday.”
What preceded: IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Israeli ground forces were “expanding their ground operations” on the evening of October 27 and would intensify air strikes in the Gaza Strip.
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2023-10-28 00:02:20
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