2023-12-06 02:17:12
According to a media report, the US government expects the current phase of the Israeli ground offensive in the southern Gaza Strip to last several more weeks. As the US television channel CNN reported, citing several senior US government officials, Israel might move in January to a “less intense, more localized strategy” that targets specific Hamas terrorists and leaders.
The White House is “deeply concerned” regarding how Israeli operations will develop in the coming weeks, an unnamed senior administration official was quoted as saying. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently called on Israel’s leadership in clear terms to protect civilians in the Gaza Strip. The numerous deaths among the civilian population and the displacement on a scale seen in northern Gaza must not be repeated in the south.
The US has made it clear to Israel that the time available to Israel for military action in its current form and for maintaining international support is rapidly dwindling, CNN said. World public opinion is increasingly turning once morest the current ground offensive, in which thousands of civilians are being killed, the broadcaster reported.
Israel’s army has expanded attacks in the sealed-off Gaza Strip and is now encircling the largest city in the southern coastal strip, Khan Yunis. At the request of the army, hundreds of thousands of people seeking protection had previously fled from the previously fiercely contested north to the southern part of the coastal area.
The war was triggered by the worst massacre in Israel’s history, carried out by terrorists from the Islamist Hamas and other terrorist groups on October 7th in Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip. More than 1,200 people were killed.
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