Israel makes another incursion with tanks in Gaza against Hamas targets

In recent hours, Israel's armed forces once again carried out a small-scale ground incursion into the center of the Gaza Strip, controlled by Hamas, in which they attacked targets of the Islamist group in the center of the Palestinian enclave.

The Israel Defense Forces reported in a statement that ground troops were supported by fighter jets and drones in the Shuyaiya area.

They said they have hit “dozens” of Hamas targets, including anti-tank launchers, an operations center and other control centers.

“The troops left the area at the end of the activity,” indicates the text, which emphasizes that there were no injuries in the Israeli ranks.

This is the second consecutive day that the Israeli Army makes a limited incursion into Gaza, although it had already carried out similar ones after the Hamas attack on October 7 against Israeli soil, which left 1,400 dead.

Yesterday, Israeli tanks entered the northern part of the Strip and destroyed Hamas infrastructure and tunnels in a limited raid, which army spokesman Richard Hecht described on Thursday as the largest to date.

Preparing the ground operation

The spokesperson warned that this type of operations are a rehearsal for a large land incursion in the future and that there will be more.

He avoided using the word incursion to refer to this type of actions and preferred to refer to them as “raids.”

Israel is preparing a major ground incursion into Gaza in retaliation for the attack on October 7 and, meanwhile, bombs the Strip daily, which has left more than 7,000 Palestinians dead since the start of the war.