IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Saturday night that Israel was planning to enter “the next phase of the war in the best conditions [for us], not according to what anyone tells us.”
“From today, we are increasing the strikes and minimizing the danger,” Hagari said in a televised press conference.
Israel says its offensive against Hamas is aimed at destroying the Iran-backed terror group’s infrastructure, and has vowed to eliminate the entire organization after the October 7 massacres led by Hamas and carried out with other terror groups saw some 2,500 terrorists burst across the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip by land, air, and sea, killing some 1,400 people and seizing hostages of all ages under the cover of thousands of rockets fired at Israeli towns and cities.
The vast majority of those killed as gunmen seized border communities were civilians — men, women, children, and the elderly. Entire families were executed in their homes, and over 260 people were slaughtered at an outdoor festival, many amid horrific acts of brutality by the terrorists, in what US President Joe Biden has highlighted as “the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust.” READ MORE