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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jason Burke in Jerusalem

IDF may launch new offensives after Gaza City, says ex-general

Palestinians carrying supplies from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Bureij in June.
The ‘central camps’ refers to the heavily built-up Nuseirat and Bureij (pictured) refugee camps in central Gaza, both packed with displaced Palestinians. Photograph: APAImages/Shutterstock

Israeli military forces are likely to mount new attacks into parts of Gaza now crowded with hundreds of thousands of displaced people once they have concluded their current offensive into Gaza City, a former Israeli national security adviser and general has said.

Yaakov Amidror, who served as national security adviser to Benjamin Netanyahu from 2011 to 2013 after decades in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), said that the “hardcore” of Hamas was in Gaza City but that “another chapter” could follow after the offensive there: an attack into the “central camps” area farther south.

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