Israel orders troops to prepare for ground offensive in Gaza

Israel began early Tuesday in a military operation of large scale against the Gaza Strip, less than two years after the cease-fire after the bombing that caused almost 170 deaths in 2012.  Tuesday hit 50 targets in the Gaza three them from warships. According to Army sources, these rocket launchers, military buildings and infrastructure of the Islamist Hamas and the homes of four alleged militants in southern Gaza.

The Israeli army, which named the attack as Operation Margin Protector and enters a new phase of the recent hostilities with Hamas. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday ordered his troops to be prepared for a possible ground incursion.

Both the Israeli bombings as rocket fire continued into Tuesday morning. The Army announced at noon that they had ” reached ” by Mohamed Goda Hamas militant in Rafah, southern Gaza, as well as ” other 40 targets ” in Gaza.

Five Palestinians were killed, two of them are Hamas militants, and dozens have been injured in the bombings, according to the Israeli daily Haaretz.

The president of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, on Tuesday demanded the “immediate arrest of the attacks on Gaza.” Netanyahu, meanwhile, asked the soldiers to ” take off the gloves ” in combat with Hamas. Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon warned that the military operation “will not end in a matter of days.” The Israeli military has also highlighted two infantry brigades in the vicinity of the Strip.

Israel assures an operation against Hamas to stop rocket fire into southern territory. Only left Gaza on Monday 85 shells of different caliber and scope. Islamists, meanwhile, threatened to bomb tonight Tel Aviv and its vicinity with more sophisticated and powerful projectiles than those used so far. Their night raids, with 11 shells fired according to the Army, were comparatively modest. But the releases continued in the morning. On Monday, Israel mobilized 1,500 reservists on the border with Gaza and hardened the tone of his speech to the rocket and mortar fire from the Palestinian Gaza, which Hamas claimed responsibility. Islamists said they attacked in response to the death of six of its members in the collapse of a tunnel last night. It was one of the bloodiest in recent years, Palestinian militants killed nine in total.

The Army denies that tunnel bombed, speaks of ” accident” and claims that the operation unleashed tonight is a reply to the recent firing of rocket into southern Israel. Authorities have ordered the inhabitants of the southern part of the country to stay near fire shelters. Hamas threatened to unleash an “earthquake ” in response to the attack, and announced the launch of new missiles.

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