Israel has stepped up attacks on Rafah as it vows to press ahead with its military campaign in southern Gaza to target Hamas. However, Hamas has said that Israel will not be able to succeed in its objective. Let us know what has happened so far.
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Many countries of the world are engulfed in war. Where it has been more than two years since the Russia-Ukraine war. At the same time, war also seems to be breaking out between Iran and Israel.
The tension between two arch-enemy countries has reached its peak. Here, Hamas and Israel have been fighting for the last six months. Israel has stepped up attacks on Rafah as it vows to press ahead with its military campaign in southern Gaza to target Hamas. However, Hamas has said that even if Israel has intensified the attacks, it will not be able to succeed in its objective. At the same time, Egypt had also warned a day earlier.
Let us know what has happened so far-
Israel launches airstrikes on Rafah despite warnings that it is likely to cause large casualties.
According to media reports, Israel carried out five air strikes on Rafah on Thursday. At least three houses were destroyed due to this. At least six people, including a local journalist, were killed. Israeli forces resumed bombarding the northern and central areas of the enclave, as well as east of Khan Yunis in the south. Hamas says that Israel will fail in its objective of defeating Palestinian groups by attacking Rafah. "Even if (Israel) enters and attacks Rafah, it will not be able to achieve what it wants," senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said.
Hamad said that Israel has been carrying out attacks in Gaza for about seven months. Has destroyed a lot, but still hasn't been able to achieve what he wants. Be it eliminating Hamas or returning the hostages, it has not been successful in anything. Egypt has reportedly asked for a meeting with Israel in renewed efforts to broker a deal for a ceasefire and the release of hostages in the Gaza Strip. Efforts by the US, Egypt, and Qatar to broker a ceasefire to stop Israel's attack on Rafah have so far failed.
If sources are to be believed, a meeting between Egyptian and Israeli officials was expected in Cairo on Friday. After that, there was a possibility of a meeting with Hamas. Gaza officials say 34,305 Palestinians have been killed so far in Israel's military campaign, while thousands of bodies are still feared buried under the debris. The US and 17 other countries have now appealed to Hamas to release all its hostages as a way to end the crisis in Gaza.