{"id":20390,"date":"2025-04-02T11:58:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T06:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=20390"},"modified":"2025-04-02T11:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T06:13:30","slug":"israel-defence-minister-says-gaza-offensive-expands-will-seize-large-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/israel-defence-minister-says-gaza-offensive-expands-will-seize-large-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel defence minister says Gaza offensive expands, will seize &#8216;large areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz announced Wednesday a major expansion of a military operation in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, saying the army would seize &#8220;large areas&#8221; of the Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n<p>The defence chief said in a statement that Israel would expand its presence in Gaza to &#8220;destroy and clear the area of terrorists and terrorist infrastructure&#8221;.The expanded operation would &#8220;seize large areas that will be incorporated into Israeli security zones&#8221;, he said, without saying how much territory Israel would take.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes after he warned last week the military would soon &#8220;operate with full force&#8221; in additional parts of Hamas-run Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Israel restarted intense bombing of Gaza on March 18 and then launched a new ground offensive, ending a nearly two-month ceasefire in the war with Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>The war was sparked by Hamas&#8217;s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.<br \/>\nIsrael&#8217;s retaliatory military campaign has killed at least 50,357 people in Gaza, the majority of them civilians, according to the territory&#8217;s health ministry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz announced Wednesday a major expansion of a military operation in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, saying the army would seize &#8220;large areas&#8221; of the Palestinian territory. The defence chief said in a statement that Israel would expand its presence in Gaza to &#8220;destroy and clear the area of terrorists and terrorist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20392,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20390\/revisions\/20392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}