Israeli troops announced a major offensive aimed at defeating Hamas and ensuring freedom of the remaining hostages in Gaza.

The IDF said in its Hebrew X account that it had mobilized troops to seize the "strategic area" of the zone for the chariots of Operation Gideon.

Civil Defense and Health Ministry officials operated by Hamas said 250 people have been killed in Israel's attacks since Thursday.

After a two-month ceasefire collapse, aid lockdowns were imposed on the Avenue in March. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that “many people are hungry” in Gaza.

The Israeli military does not use the operating name in similar posts on its English X account.

It said it would not stop operating "until Hamas is no longer a threat, all of our hostages are home" and within 24 hours "hit over 150 terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip".

Despite the international resumption of ceasefire negotiations and ending the blockade, Israel intensified its bombing and built armored forces along the border. The launch of this operation seems to indicate that all efforts have failed.

The Israeli era said that the “chariot of Gideon” (a reference to the Bible’s warriors) would see the occupation and control of the territory by the IDF, moving civilians to the striptease south, attacking Hamas and preventing it from controlling aid supplies.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier this month that Israel is preparing for a “strong entry into Gaza” to capture and occupy territory.

His administration says that this won't start until Trump completes his trip to the Middle East. The U.S. president left the area on Friday.

Volker Türk, the head of human rights at the UN, warned that Israel's recent escalation could be considered a violation of international law.

"This latest bomb bomb has forced people to strengthen the threat of attacks, methodical destruction, the systemic threat of the entire community and the denial of humanitarian aid, which seems to prompt a permanent demographic shift in Gaza, which is illegal against international law and ruled by international law and a protester of ethnic cleansing," he said.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States is "troubled" by the situation.

Victoria Rose, a British reconstruction surgeon who works at Khan Younis' Nasser Hospital, told BBC Radio 4's Today's show that her team was "exhausted" and lost "conspicuous weight".

"The kids are really thin," she said. "We have a lot of young people with teeth falling off."

“Many of them suffered considerable burn damage and at this level of malnutrition they were more susceptible to infection and had a reduced ability to recover.”

An unsupported assessment published on Monday found that Gaza’s population was at a “risk risk” of famine.

The Israeli government has repeatedly rejected the claim that Gaza has food shortage.

Israel launched a military campaign to destroy Hamas in response to the group's cross-border attack on October 7, 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and another 251 were taken hostage. Hamas still has 57.