Israel launches a new attack on Hamas’s pressure to launch the hostages with the continued food crisis in Gaza

The Israeli army launched a new operation in Gaza Strip The Minister of Defense said on Saturday that the pressure on Hamas to release the remaining hostages.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the Gideon operation began and led by a “great force” by the Israeli army.

“The Israeli Defense Army championship, the unity of the people and the design of political length increases the opportunity to return the hostages – as was then and as it is now,” he said.

The process follows days of intense strikes across lands that have killed hundreds of people.

The Israeli defense spokesman, Colonel Avichai Adri, said in a statement registered on a video from the Gaza Strip, that the forces “expand and increase the bombing and pressure on Hamas throughout the tape – from north to south, above and below the land, and even outside the tape.”

The army said it would not stop until the hostages would be returned and Hamas is dismantled.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Earlier in the week to escalate the pressure on Hamas In order to destroy the armed group that ruled Gaza for nearly two decades.

More than 150 people have been killed in Israeli strikes during the past 24 hours, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health in Hamas. She said that more than 3000 had been killed since Israel broke the ceasefire in January 18.

The humanitarian crisis continues

The process also comes when US President Trump concluded his journey to The Middle East without a visit to Israel.

There was hope that Mr. Trump’s visit to the region would increase the chances of a ceasefire or the resumption of humanitarian aid in Gaza, which prevented Israel for about three months.

On Friday, Mr. Trump repeated a warning invitation that people were starving in the besieged Palestinian territories.

“We are looking at Gaza. We will take care of it. Many people are starving,” the president told reporters.

Israel imposed a siege for more than two months on Gaza, which led to the leadership of the United Nations and other humanitarian groups to warn against delivery of fuel, food and rapid medicine in the Palestinian territories that, before the war, was home to about 2.4 million people.

Food security experts say Gaza will be in famine if the siege is not lifted.

The Israeli government has repeatedly denied that Gaza would face hunger and said that the siege on forcing Hamas to launch the remaining hostages who were captured in the October 7 attack.

According to the World Food Program, there are at least 14,000 children in Gaza suffering from malnutrition.

One of these children survived Hajaj, who had to be discharged from the hospital because it was running out of food and medicine. Her mother says that the 6 -year -old weighs only 13 lbs, which is the average weight of a 3 -month -old child.

“She dies in my hands, and I can’t do anything,” her father, Hussein Hajjaj, told CBS News. “I can barely feed her, I don’t know what to do.”

Meanwhile, negotiations between Israel and the enthusiasm of progress in the capital of Qatar, Doha were not achieved. Hamas, which was issued An Israeli -American hostage as a goodwill gesture Before Trump’s trip in the Middle East, he insists on a three-year-old deal-an issue that Israel said will not agree to it.

Among the hostages staying in Gaza, Israel believes that up to 23 years are still alive, although the Israeli authorities have expressed concern about the situation of three of these.

The war started on October 7, 2023, when the terrorists led by Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and kidnapped 251 others. The retaliation of Israel has killed more than 53,000 Palestinians, and many of them are women and children, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, which do not differentiate between civilians and fighters.