{"id":24208,"date":"2021-05-15T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T03:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=24208"},"modified":"2021-05-15T09:02:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T09:02:37","slug":"israel-announces-ground-op-into-gaza-then-retreats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/israel-announces-ground-op-into-gaza-then-retreats\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIsrael\u201d Announces Ground Op into Gaza, Then Retreats!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cIsraeli\u201d offensive Army announced that its \u00a0ground troops have now joined the air force in attacking the besieged Gaza Strip, causing confusion before clarifying that no soldiers have actually crossed into the Palestinian enclave yet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAir and ground forces are now attacking the Gaza Strip. More details to come,\u201d the \u201cIsraeli\u201d Armuy announced on Twitter just after midnight on Friday local time.<\/p>\n<p>Artillery, tanks and infantry are firing into the strip but have not crossed its boundary yet, according to a reporter with the \u201cIsraeli\u201d public broadcaster Kan 11.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, reports mentioned that artillery units from the \u2018Golani\u2019 Brigade are \u201cshooting into Gaza from the border, but have not crossed over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said that we would exact a very heavy price from Hamas,\u201d \u201cIsraeli \u201cPM Benjamin Netanyahu said shortly after the Zionist army\u2019s announcement. \u201cWe\u2019re doing it and will continue doing it with great intensity. This is not the last word and this operation will continue as long as necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ground troops have been spotted deploying to the border with the enclave on Thursday, with an \u201cIsraeli\u201d spokesman confirming they were in \u201cvarious stages of preparing ground operations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsraeli\u201d drones, helicopters and fighter jets have been striking strip brutally since Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed to have launched more than 1,500 rockets into the cities of southern<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIsraeli\u201d offensive Army announced that its \u00a0ground troops have now joined the air force in attacking the besieged Gaza Strip, causing confusion before clarifying that no soldiers have actually crossed into the Palestinian enclave yet. \u201cAir and ground forces are now attacking the Gaza Strip. More details to come,\u201d the \u201cIsraeli\u201d Armuy announced on Twitter &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24210,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24208\/revisions\/24210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}