Israel launches ground invasion of Gaza City

About two years after its retaliatory military attack in the Gaza Strip, Israel said it had launched a long ground attack on Gaza City.

“The Israeli Defense Forces have begun to expand the ground operations in Gaza City as part He said on Tuesday on social media.

Gaza is burned, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said earlier today, In a separate update from Google. “We will not review or go back – until the task is completed,” he added.

The ground invasion represents the deepening of the Israeli attack in the Gaza Strip, which included 2.2 million people and moved to a Stroke hunger battlefield. Gaza City, which was previously the most urban settlement in the pocket, is still home to hundreds of thousands of the displaced Palestinian people.

Israel insists that its campaign aims to strip Hamas and release the hostages taken by the militant Palestinian group after its terrorist attacks in October 2023.

Speaking to reporters preparing to leave Israel, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated that the ground invasion of Gaza City was imminent.

“Well, as I saw, the Israelis started carrying out operations there. So we believe that we have a very short time window where the deal can occur. We no longer have months anymore,” he said. “Our preference, our first choice, is that this ends with a negotiation settlement with Hamas.”

CNBC contacted the Israeli Defense Army and the Israeli Foreign Ministry to comment.

Countries, including Norway, Spain and Ireland, recognized the Palestinian state in the spring of 2024, when France, Canada and Australia later announced plans to take the same step this month. In a blow to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a report issued by the United Nations Investigation Committee concluded on Tuesday that Israel He committed genocide Against the Palestinian people in the pocket of Gaza.

The official report does not speak officially on the United Nations, which has not yet used the term “genocide”.

In November 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest orders in favor of Netanyahu, the former defense minister and Hamas officials for war crimes and crimes against humanity due to the Gaza conflict and the attack of terrorism in October 2023.

The results of the United Nations Committee on Tuesday can deal with another reputation blow to Israel, which sought to maintain trade relations with international partners. In AugustThe world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, Norges Bank Investment Management, said it had left its investments in the American machinery factory Catpeberler And five Israeli banks after reviewing the companies’ connection to the Gaza struggle. Germany has in the meantime Arms export To Israel in the Gaza Strip.

The reactions of the broader market were kept, with the exception of brief mutations in oil prices when Israel entered direct confrontations with the sponsor of Hamas, who is rich in Iran and with others from Tehran agents, such as the Lebanese Armed Group, Hezbollah and the Hawz of Yemen.

However, the Arab countries in the Middle East-which are comfortable or adopted with strong relations with the United States-are unlikely to protest the current aggression of Israel in Gaza by banning oil, as they did in 1973, according to experts.

“We will have to see the adult oil producers in the region – the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and Iran – join the ban on oil,” said Marco Babik, the kidney expert and the BCA Research. “There is absolutely no talk about it, and therefore I think this will continue in the market completely, not related to global investors.”

He also underestimated the possibility of the success of the Gaza’s recent attack in Gaza, to which “another victory is unlikely that Hamas will come out, and the reason for this is that Hamas is an ideology that will continue, either in its current form or in the form of the future.”