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Israeli Invasion Plans Target Gaza City and Hamas Leadership

The goal, according to three senior officers, is to wipe out the top political and military hierarchy of Hamas, the Palestinian group that controls Gaza.

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A soldier wearing a skullcap takes a large tank shell from another soldier.

Israeli soldiers on Saturday load shells onto a tank ahead of a possible invasion of the Gaza Strip.Credit...Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times

Patrick KingsleyRonen Bergman

By Patrick Kingsley and Ronen Bergman

To gather information about Israel’s planned invasion and the Hamas response, the reporters spoke to senior Israeli military officers, former security officials, infantrymen preparing for battle and a Hamas officer.

Oct. 14, 2023

Updated 10:56 p.m. ET

Sign up for the Israel-Hamas War Briefing. Latest news on the conflict. Get it sent to your inbox. The Israeli military is preparing to invade the Gaza Strip soon. Tens of thousands of soldiers are expected to seize Gaza City and destroy the enclave's current leadership, according to three Israeli military officials who briefed unclassified details of the plan.

The military said its ultimate goal was to wipe out the political and military leadership of Hamas, the Palestinian group that controls Gaza and led last week's terrorist attacks in Israel that killed 1,300 people.

The attack is expected to be Israel's largest ground operation since its invasion of Lebanon in 2006. This is Israel's first attempt to seize and hold land, at least for a short period of time, since the 2008 invasion of Gaza, according to three senior officials.

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Our coverage of the Israel-Hamas war

Looming invasion: Israel's new unity government agrees that Hamas must be destroyed. However, there is little interest in reoccupying the Gaza Strip as the Israeli military prepares for a major operation there.

Growing crisis in Gaza: The Gaza Strip is on the brink of a humanitarian disaster after days of hundreds of airstrikes by Israel in retaliation for Hamas attacks.

No exit: Israeli leaders have repeatedly called on civilians in the Gaza Strip to leave the area as soon as possible. But the only possible escape route is to cross the border into Egypt, and so far the door has remained firmly closed.

Confronting the attackers: Israel Ziv, a retired Israeli army general who charged at Hamas attackers at the outbreak of the conflict, has become a public symbol of Israel's D.I.Y. Become. spirit – and its failures in the military and intelligence services.

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A flood of images: The images streaming onto our phones from Israel and Gaza don't just record history, they shape it, critics write. Learn more about the Middle East

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