The Israel Defence Force (IDF) spokesperson, Lieutenant Col. Jonathan Conricus, said on Wednesday that at the end of the war, Hamas won’t have any military capabilities by which they can threaten or kill Israeli citizens.

“Four days after Hamas breached into Israel, attacked Israeli communities, murdered and massacred Israeli citizens, and took dozens of Israeli hostages into Gaza. The death toll is staggering—1200 dead Israelis. The overwhelming majority of them are civilians and more than 2700 wounded, and sadly, something tells me that these are not final numbers,” he said.

“We have sent our inventory, armoured soldiers, our artillery cores, and many other soldiers from the reserves. 300,000 in numbers in different brigades and divisions, and they are now close to the Gaza Strip, getting ready to execute the mission, and that is to make sure that Hamas at the end of the war won’t have any military capabilities by which they can threaten or kill Israeli citizens,” the IDF spokesperson added.

On some reports claiming that the IDF bombed a residential building in Gaza, he said the building was used by the Hamas terror group, adding that the terror group uses civilian buildings. “It isn’t a civilian building; it is a legitimate military target because Hamas uses all its locations, all of their officers, headquarters for their research and development, and all of their military assets, if its above ground, they locate themselves in civilian buildings. Hamas being cowards that they are never put signs on their building saying, Welcome to the Hamas Headquarters for planning terrorist activity in Israel,” he said.

Earlier today, continuing its air assault on the Islamic terror group  in the wake of the multi-pronged terror attacks, the IDF said it struck over 200 targets of the terrorist group in the Al Furkan neighbourhood of the besieged Gaza Strip.

“The IDF continues extensive waves of attacks in the Gaza Strip; dozens of Air Force fighter jets attacked over 200 targets in the Al Furkan neighbourhood for the third time in the past day. This is the third attack in the area during the last day, in which the IDF attacked over 450 targets in the area of the neighbourhood,” the IDF posted on X.

The IDF also confirmed that the first plane carrying US armaments has since arrived at the Nevatim Airbase in southern Israel this evening.