“Gaza is burning,” Israeli Israel Katz defense minister in X to X when Israel’s defense forces began their offensive in the largest city in the Gaza Strip.
This photo taken from a position on the Israel border with the Gaza Strip shows smoke undulating in the middle of an Israeli bombing of the Palestinian territory besieged on September 16, 2025.
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“The IDF hit an iron fist in the terrorist infrastructure and the FDI soldiers are bravely fighting to create the conditions for the launch of the hostages and the defeat of Hamas,” Katz wrote.
“We will not yield and we will not return, until the end of the mission,” he added.
The video images of the area showed multiple large explosions in the city of Gaza on Tuesday when the IDF pressed their offensive.
