Move or will be seen as ‘terrorists’: Israel's urgent warning to residents of Gaza
fire with Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group on a near-daily basis since the war began, and tensions are soaring in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where Israeli forces have battled militants in refugee camps and carried out two airstrikes in recent days. For days, Israel has seemed to be on the verge of launching a ground offensive in Gaza as part of its response to Hamas' deadly October 7 rampage.
Tanks and tens of thousands of troops have massed at the border, and Israeli leaders have spoken of an undefined next stage in operations. It says an estimated 700,000 have already fled, but hundreds of thousands remain.
That would raise the risk of mass civilian casualties in any ground offensive. Israeli military officials say Hamas' infrastructure and underground tunnel system are concentrated in Gaza City, and that the next stage of the offensive will include unprecedented force there.
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