Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
NEW YORK, 17th Jan.- Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday claimed that the Israeli military has dismantled the Hamas militant group’s entire military battalion framework in northern Gaza.
Gallant said in a statement that although the Israel Defense Forces was reducing the intensity of its advances in northern Gaza, the military will continue to eliminate pockets of influence and resistance of the militant group.
He said that these pockets of resistance would be eliminated through raids, airstrikes, special operations and other focused activities to destroy the remaining terror operators acting on specific and precise intelligence.
Gallant said that the army will continue its intense operations in central and southern Gaza strip and added that operations will also be expanded to the Ramallah area as well.
He said that IDF was destroying the military industry of Hamas in central Gaza where the militant outfit was engaged in the production of rockets, IEDs and other explosives.
Mr. Gallant noted that the army has made major progress in southern Gaza strip and was focused on destroying the terror group‘s senior leadership who are supposedly holed up in the Khan Younis area.
He said that it was only because of the intense military action carried out by the IDF, that the terror organization came the mediation table and added that once the fire power was stopped, the hostages would be forgotten by the world and they would remain in captivity.
Gallant said that the 162nd Division of IDF will remain in northern Gaza, carrying out clean-up operations to locate Hamas’s infrastructure and kill or capture its remaining operatives.
The 99th Division is operating in the central part of the besieged enclave, the 98th Division is fighting Hamas in the Khan Younis area of southern Gaza.
