{"id":37033,"date":"2024-01-01T04:17:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T04:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37033"},"modified":"2024-01-01T04:17:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T04:17:11","slug":"israel-says-war-in-gaza-expected-to-continue-throughout-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=37033","title":{"rendered":"Israel says war in Gaza expected to continue throughout 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Israeli military has said it expects the conflict in Gaza to continue throughout 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a new year&#8217;s message, Israel Defence Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari said troop deployments were being adjusted to prepare for &#8220;prolonged fighting&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said some troops &#8211; especially reservists &#8211; would be withdrawn to allow them to regroup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;These adaptations are intended to ensure the planning and preparation for continuing the war in 2024,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The IDF must plan ahead out of an understanding that there will be additional missions and the fighting will continue the rest of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said that some reservists would leave Gaza &#8220;as soon as this week&#8221; to allow them to &#8220;re-energise ahead of the coming operations&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 21,800 people have been killed in Gaza &#8211; mostly children and women &#8211; during 11 weeks of fighting, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The latest war was triggered by an unprecedented cross-border attack by Hamas gunmen on southern Israel on 7 October, in which 1,200 people were killed &#8211; most of them civilians &#8211; and about 240 others taken hostage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-67039975\">Why are Israel and Hamas fighting in Gaza?<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-67764664\">What Gaza&#8217;s death toll says about the war<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel continued its bombardment of Gaza up until the end of what has been dark year in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At least 48 Palestinians were killed in overnight bombing in Gaza City on Sunday, the health ministry in Gaza said, with many still buried under the rubble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another strike killed 20 people sheltering at Al-Aqsa University in the west of Gaza City, witnesses told the AFP news agency. The BBC has not been able to verify the latest reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UN says 85% of Gaza&#8217;s 2.4 million people &#8211; almost 2 million people &#8211; have now been displaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Tonight the sky in world countries will be lit by firecrackers, and joyful laughs will fill the air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In Gaza our skies are now filled with Israeli missiles and tank shells that land on innocent, homeless civilians,&#8221; Zainab Khalil, 57, a resident from northern Gaza now in Rafah, told Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: The Israeli military has said it expects the conflict in Gaza to continue throughout 2024. In a new year&#8217;s message, Israel Defence Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari said troop deployments were being adjusted to prepare for &#8220;prolonged fighting&#8221;. He said some troops &#8211; especially reservists &#8211; would be withdrawn to allow them to regroup. &#8220;These adaptations are intended to ensure the planning and preparation for continuing the war in 2024,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The IDF must plan ahead out of an understanding that there will be additional missions and the fighting will continue the rest of the year.&#8221; He said&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37035,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37033\/revisions\/37035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}