On Sunday, the Israeli army claimed to have struck over the past two days more than a hundred “terrorist targets” in the Gaza Strip, where it has been at war for nearly 15 months with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
“The air force struck more than 100 terrorist targets throughout the Gaza Strip and eliminated dozens of Hamas terrorists” on Friday and Saturday, she announced in a statement.
The army also said it had hit several sites used by Palestinian fighters to fire projectiles toward Israel in recent days.
According to data from the Hamas Health Ministry in Gaza, deemed reliable by the UN, at least 59 people were killed there in the space of 24 hours from Friday to Saturday.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened on Wednesday to intensify strikes on Palestinian territory if Hamas continued to fire rockets into his country.
Israel says it has been targeted almost daily for more than a week, even if the shots are less frequent than at the start of the war, triggered by an unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023.
This intensification of fighting comes as indirect negotiations between Hamas and Israel have resumed in Qatar with a view to an agreement for a ceasefire and the release of hostages held in Gaza.
Despite intense diplomatic efforts led under the aegis of Qatar, Egypt and the United States, no truce has been concluded since that of a week, which took place at the end of November 2023.
