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by Nidal al-Mughrabi and Arafat Barbakh
CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli tanks pushed deeper into central and southern Gaza neighborhoods on Saturday backed by heavy air and artillery fire, residents said, launching a deadly offensive that leveled a large part of the enclave and which, according to Israel, could last for months.
According to Gaza health authorities, Israeli strikes killed around 100 Palestinians and injured more than 150 others.
The Israeli government pledged to destroy Hamas after the attack on the Palestinian Islamist movement, which left around 1,200 dead on October 7 in the south of the Jewish state. The Israeli army then launched a vast air and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip which, according to the authorities of the Hamas-led enclave, has now killed more than 21,000 Palestinians in two and a half months.
(French version Nicolas Delame)
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