Israeli troops are holding a swath of the northern Gaza Strip, a day after launching an intense ground offensive that took them further into the besieged enclave.
Dozens of tanks, accompanied by infantry and combat engineers and operating under the cover of a huge aerial bombardment, had “stabilised their defensive lines” inside Gaza, said military chief of staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi.
“This is a war with multiple stages — today we move to the next one,” he said, three weeks after Israel declared war on Hamas. “The objectives of this war require a ground operation.”
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