Tanks and troops crossed the border into northern Gaza overnight, the Israeli military has confirmed. The raid was the biggest of the conflict so far and is intended to 'prepare the battlefield' before an expected full-scale ground invasion.
Israel sent tanks and troops into northern Gaza overnight, in the 'biggest incursion' of the war with Hamas so far, according to the country's military. The Israel Defence Forces said it carried out a brief ground raid to strike several military targets. The attack was intended to 'prepare the battlefield', the IDF said, before a widely expected full-scale ground invasion of the Hamas-run Palestinian territory.
Israel-Hamas war latest: Live updates after Gaza raid The raid came after the United Nations warned it is on the verge of running out of fuel in the Gaza Strip, forcing it to sharply curtail relief efforts in the territory, which has also been under siege since Hamas's rampage across southern Israel on 7 October.
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