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From the Liveblog of
Sunday, December 3, 2023
From the Liveblog of
Sunday, December 3, 2023
IDF spokesman says ground troops are operating in ‘all areas of the Gaza Strip’
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip in this handout image published on December 3, 2023. (IDF)
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says the military is expanding the ground offensive to “all areas of the Gaza Strip.”
He says that wherever Hamas operates, the IDF will reach.
Hagari also reveals that the commander of Hamas’s Shati battalion was killed in an airstrike in the Strip today. He says the Hamas commander “led the fighting in the Shati area, and under his command the plans to raid Israel during the October 7 massacre was carried out.”
“We are tracking around the clock to locate the senior Hamas leadership in the Strip. The goal is to eliminate each and every one of them,” Hagari says in response to a question.
