The Israeli army says it has carried out an operation in Northern Gaza in preparation for the next stages of combat.
In a post on social media site X, it said IDF tanks and infantry struck “numerous terrorist cells, infrastructure and anti-tank missile posts.”
Soldiers are said to have returned to Israeli territory.
On Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed his country was preparing a ground invasion of Gaza, and that “we are working against the clock” in preparations to destroy Hamas.
“We are in a war for our sovereignty, for our existence, and we have set ourselves two fundamental objectives: to eradicate Hamas’s military and governmental capabilities and to do everything possible to bring the hostages held by the Palestinian Islamist group back home,” Netanyahu said in a televised address.
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