Third day of the Iron Sword War: IDF Spokesperson Brigadier General Daniel Hagari will give a statement to the media today (Monday) at 11:00 AM at Rabin Camp (the Kirya). At the end of the statement, Hagari will answer a number of questions.
"The events at night are discrete events. We carry out searches in all the localities - we are in control of the communities. At this stage, there is no fighting in the communities. There may be terrorists in the area, they are terrorists who were hiding. At every location, terrorists encounter a military force that kills them. Our units fight valiantly. At this hour there are no fights," Hagari said.
"The breaches in the fence in Gaza will be secured by tanks and will be supported by each of the breaches. The communities near the fence on the verge of evacuating Sderot will not be evacuated," he added.
On the issue of the north, he said: "Yesterday there were a number of isolated incidents on the border, there are no casualties to our forces and we are holding the north very strong, there is no fighting in the north." In addition, he added: "The IDF is launching powerful waves of attack. Thousands of fighter jets attacking hundreds of targets. Every four hours, such a wave comes out and attacks. We will reach thousands of targets that are attacked - in every such target there are terrorists, we attack terrorists. The crossings are closed in the Gaza Strip, there is no electricity, no one coming in and out. Gaza is under siege."
On the issue of the shortage of equipment, he said: "The citizens of Israel are at their best, there is equipment in the IDF. We do not lack equipment and food, restraint is required, everything will come. Great appreciation for hundreds of citizens who came to volunteer for the IDF."
"There are 73 fallen IDF soldiers who updated their families. Over 700 murdered. There are also abductees. Hamas published data, an ad, murderous Hamas published videos and it shows the barbarism and cruelty of Hamas and we will inform the families. We have already started updating the families, collecting DNA, and we will notify the media only after we update the families. This is the greatest terrorist incident that has ever occurred on the State of Israel. We are attacking very broadly, very powerfully, focused on intelligence, where we know there are terrorists in Gaza, we are attacking and all IDF capabilities will be activated."
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