The Israeli army announced on Saturday that 100 of its warplanes bombed the Gaza Strip overnight, coinciding with a massive ground incursion.
An IDF spokesman told ABC News that the actual ground invasion of Gaza Strip has not yet begun, and that the current ground operations “are not the official ground invasion.”
Earlier on Friday the army announced the expansion of ground operations in the Gaza Strip, while reports indicated that Israeli tanks had penetrated Gaza, with some of them destroyed.
An American official revealed to ABC News that “The Israelis are currently conducting a limited ground incursion and have agreed to bring in humanitarian support in conjunction with the operation.”
The Israeli Air Force launched several consecutive airstrikes on northern Gaza, the heaviest since the start of the war, causing a complete cut-off of communications and the Internet in the sector, according to the Al-Arabiya website.
Palestinian media also reported that the Gaza Strip is witnessing “very intense shelling in different areas,” noting that “Gaza has not witnessed such shelling since the start of the aggression,” which led to a complete cut-off of communications and the internet in the Gaza Strip.
