Israeli armored vehicles are pulled to the border with the gas sector: ground invasion is expected in the coming hours

The Israeli armored units are concentrated on the border with the gas sector, and, according to incoming messages, at any moment the beginning of the ground operation to destroy the military structure of the radical movement "Hamas" is expected. Regional experts suggest that this will happen on the night of January 2, ITAR-TASS reports.

“We only started to fulfill the task. This is only the beginning of the operation, which was announced a few days ago. The enemy was seriously wounded, but not destroyed,” Matan Vilnai, Deputy Minister of Defense, told the army radio station.

On New Year's Eve, Israel was announced in mobilization of 2500 reservists, in addition to 6,500 Israelis, already drafted for service. According to a survey conducted by the Haaretz newspaper, 52% of the country's citizens support the continuation of the military campaign using aviation. 20% are expressed for the ceasefire, and 19% consider it necessary to conduct a large -scale land operation in GAZ.

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Meanwhile, the militants of the "Rzeddin al -Kassam" - the armed wing "Hamas" - again fired at Israeli territory. According to the al-Manar satellite television channel, the missiles released by militants exploded on the basis of the Israeli Air Force in Hatsrim, located in the Negev desert.

Several missiles reached a large Israeli city of Beer-Shev with a population of 200 thousand people, located 40 km from the border with the gas sector. The reactive shells exploded in the cut, Ashdod and Ashkelon.

In Ashdod, the Grad rocket hit the eight -story residential building, reports Newsru Israel . According to the ambulance center, none of the residents of the house was injured, but several needed the help of doctors to get out of the state of shock. Rescue services evacuate residents from the house in which the fire began. The power supply was interrupted in the area of ​​the hit.

In the area of ​​the Ashkol missile, it was exploded on the territory of one of the factories. The plant’s building was damaged. There were no official information about the victims and victims among the Israelis. Earlier, the deaths of the three settlers were reported as a result of Hamas missile volleys.

The Israeli Air Force in response inflicted a missile blow to the building of the Palestinian Legislative Council in the center of Gaza. According to the al-Jazira satellite television channel, the attack was taken at the moment when in the city of Tire, in the south of Lebanon, an emergency meeting of the Mazharab parliament was opened, whose participants gathered to demand from their European colleagues to raise their voice in defense of the Palestinians.

Together with the building of the parliament, buildings of ministries of justice and education were also destroyed. According to the results of six days of operation, the number of those killed in gas reached 412 people, 2070 - were injured. Among the victims, according to the UN, more than 60 civilians, more than half of them are children.

One of the "Five" leaders "Hamas" was destroyed by a bomb.

Later it was reported that the Israeli Air Force delivered a blow to the house of one of the leaders of Hamas, Nizara Rayyan, closely connected with the military wing of the Islamists in the Gaza Street. According to the Israeli radio, this is the first air raid aimed personally at the representative of the Hamasovsky elite.

As AP reports with reference to Palestinian medical sources, 11 people were killed as a result of the explosion, including 49-year-old Rayyan himself, two of his wives and four children. About 40 people were injured. Rayan was one of the key figures of Hamas, responsible for making the most important decisions. A bomb weighing one ton was dropped on his house.

As the agency explains, most of the leaders of the movement since the beginning of the Israeli operation went into shelters, but Rayyan openly neglected such precautions, although the Israeli military claims that the tunnel was dug under his house, where he could hide from the bombing.

In total, from the beginning of the air phase of the operation last Saturday, Israel has made about 500 raids.

Tsipi rainfall refused sarcose: there will be no humanitarian corridor in gas

Meanwhile, the Foreign Minister of Israeli Cipi Livni rejected the proposal to create a humanitarian corridor in the gas sector. She stated this at the end of the meeting with France President Nicolas Sarkozy in the Champs Elysees.

“The crisis in the gas sector is not humanitarian and therefore there is no need for the creation of the humanitarian corridor,” she said. “We support the humanitarian situation in the gas sector precisely at the level at which it is necessary.

Livni said that Israel "at the right time" would decide on the termination of military operations directed against the gas sector when the Israeli government would make sure "that" Hamas "realized that he went too far." "The decision that the operation has achieved its goals will be made on the basis of our daily assessments of the situation that we carry out," the minister said.

Livni emphasized that Israel during the operations "distinguishes between the war against terrorism and" Hamas "and the position of the civilian population."

The Foreign Minister expressed satisfaction with a meeting with Sarkozy. According to her, he "perfectly understands what danger the Israeli state is currently expelled and how complicated the situation is in the region. Together we tried to determine what the best strategy and the best tactic could be to achieve our goals," Livni said.