The IDF is said to be striking targets across the Gaza Strip, including the Shejaiya neighborhood in Gaza City in the north, and Khan Younis in the south, according to reports in the Hebrew-language media.
Israel’s military confirmed earlier that it had expanded its ground offensive into southern Gaza, promising to carry out its campaign with the same intensity as it has used in northern Gaza, where fighting has continued for over eight weeks since October 7. In a press conference this evening, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the military was expanding the ground offensive to “all areas of the Gaza Strip.”
Earlier Sunday, the IDF Arabic-language spokesman, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, threatened Hamas’s Shejaiya battalion in a post on X.
“This is a final notice. You are all targets,” Adraee said, attaching a picture of the commanders of the Shejaiya battalion.
“You have two options: surrender and lay down your weapons, or face a fate similar to that of Wissam Farhat,” Adraee added, referring to the Shejaiya battalion commander, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike Saturday.
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