IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir has approved operational plans and briefed senior officers ahead of the military’s upcoming offensive in Gaza City, the IDF says.
“We are moving toward the next stages in the mission of toppling Hamas rule; that is our objective. We are going to bring down this regime, and nothing will stop us from carrying out the mission,” he says to the officers, according to remarks provided by the IDF.
Zamir says the IDF’s two main goals remain “the release of the hostages, which is a moral mission of the highest priority, critical and essential, and alongside it the mission of toppling Hamas.”
“These are the missions of our generation. As I have said in the past, we will attack [Hamas] and pursue it everywhere, in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and in other places, as we did in the last 24 hours,” he says, referring to yesterday’s strike in Qatar.
Zamir also says that the IDF is “closely examining the shift in the balance of power in the Middle East.”
“We have already been in a war for nearly two years, and now we are in decisive stages of it,” he adds.
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