IDF Southern Command chief: Gaza fighting will continue in varying forms

By Emanuel Fabian

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1 January 2024, 8:21 pm Edit

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Chief of the IDF's Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman (center), speaks with officers in Gaza City, January 1, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)

The chief of the IDF’s Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Yaron Finkelman, says the fighting in Gaza “will continue in a variety of methods, in a variety of intensities, and in varying forms.”

Finkelman’s remarks are made during a visit to the area of Gaza City’s Daraj and Tuffah neighborhoods, where the last standing Hamas battalion in northern Gaza is believed by the army to be.

He says the change in fighting methods will make it “difficult for the enemy to pinpoint them and understand them.”

“We will continue to hit [Hamas] here, and in all parts of the Strip,” Finkelman adds.