Israel-Hamas war | Israel goal to eliminate Hamas terrorism from Gaza Strip: Israel Ministry
Israel-Hamas war: The conflict, ignited by a surprise weekend attack on October 7 by Hamas operatives on Israeli border areas completed more than three weeks now.
The deadliest escalation of the conflict in decades has witnessed a massive rocket barrage and a multi-front offensive by Hamas, resulting in reports of more than 2,500 individuals, including militants, breached the border and carried out violent actions in southern Israel, resulting in the loss of about 1,400 people, the majority of who were civilians.
On the going war with Israel attacking Hamas, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Lior Haiat has said that this is a war of self-defence after being attacked brutally.
Haiat said that Israel's goal in this war is to eliminate Hamas control and Hamas terrorism from the Gaza Strip. The elimination of Hamas is the only matter of survival.
In the statement, Israel Foreign Ministry spokesperson further added, "It's a matter of survival because if we don't do that, Hamas will continue with other massacres one after the other. This is just not me saying that Hamas leadership is saying that they plan another October 7-like massacre one after the other."
The deadly attack hailed by Hamas has been carried out in Isreal on October 7 and stressed that if given a chance, the terror group will repeat similar assaults many times in the future until Israel is exterminated
"Israel is a country that has no place on our land. We must remove it because it constitutes a security, military and political catastrophe to the Arab and Islamic nations. We are not ashamed to say this," he was quoted as saying.
Nearly 3,000 Hamas terrorists on October 7, burst across the border into Israel from the Gaza Strip by land, air and sea, and killed some 1,400 people, taking at least 245 hostages of all ages under their cover as they attacked by thousands of rocket fire at Israeli towns and cities.
The majority of those killed by Hamas terrorists were civilians, including babies, children, and the elderly. Entire families were executed in their homes.
Following the terror attack, Israel retaliated with a large-scale military offensive in Gaza aimed at destroying Hamas infrastructure and vowed to eliminate the entire terror group.
The Israel Defence Force (IDF) has attacked over 11,000 Hamas targets since its ground operation.
- With inputs from agencies
