It is mid-morning on Saturday in Israel and news of exactly what happened overnight is still filtering through,Bloomberg reports:
Israeli troops are pursuing operations inside the northern Gaza Strip,a day after authorities said they would extend ground activities in the Palestinian enclave,army radio reported.
Israel said that it’s expanding military activity in Gaza,as the strip lost internet and telephone service and international agencies lost contact with staff there. The United Nations General Assembly approved a resolution calling for an “immediate,durable and sustained humanitarian truce” in the conflict.
Troops are pursuing operations inside the northern Gaza Strip,a day after Israel said it would extend ground activities in the Palestinian enclave,Israel Defense Forces Radio reported,without giving further details. The IDF didn’t respond to a request for comment on the current presence of ground forces in Gaza.
Meanwhile,Iran began two days of exercises on Friday in its central Isfahan province involving helicopters,missiles,drones and artillery.
Iran’s army is carrying out military drills,the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. The two-day “offensive” exercises started on Friday in the central Isfahan province and involved more than 200 helicopters as well as missiles,drones and artillery,according to Tasnim.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has warned that new fronts would open against the US if it continues its unequivocal support for Israel.
The Pentagon said US attacks on Iranian targets Thursday night were focused on storage facilities for weapons and ammunition used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and resulted in no casualties.
“These narrowly-tailored strikes in self-defense were intended solely to protect and defend US personnel in Iraq and Syria,” Brigadier General Pat Ryder,a Defense Department spokesman,said in a statement.
Bloomberg