Netanyahu, who lately declared that the “intense section” of the warfare was winding down, stated on Sunday troops have been “working in Rafah, Shujaiya, all over the place within the Gaza Strip”.
“It is a troublesome struggle that’s being waged above floor… and beneath floor” in tunnels.
The warfare began with Hamas’s October 7 assault on southern Israel which resulted within the deaths of 1,195 folks, principally civilians, in line with an AFP tally based mostly on Israeli figures.
The militants additionally seized 251 hostages, 116 of whom stay in Gaza together with 42 the military says are lifeless.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed a minimum of 37,900 folks, additionally principally civilians, in line with knowledge from the well being ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.
Months of on-and-off talks in direction of a truce and hostage launch deal have made little progress, with Hamas saying Saturday there was “nothing new” in a revised plan offered by US mediators.
Israel has launched Mohammed Abu Salmiya, director of Gaza Metropolis’s Al-Shifa hospital, together with dozens of different detainees who returned Monday to Gaza for therapy, in line with a hospital supply in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah.