JERUSALEM, Israel – The Israeli military operation in the last Hamas stronghold of Gaza City has begun as Israel launched a new surveillance satellite to keep an eye on even more of the Middle East.

The Israel Defense Forces officially launched their ground operation on Tuesday after a massive call-up of reservists.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commended the reservists, focusing on both the future and the recent past.

"We are working to defeat Hamas, but along the way we have worked wonders together because we broke the Iranian axis; both in Gaza, in Lebanon with Hezbollah, and with the Assad regime that collapsed," Netanyahu announced. "Also, with Iran itself that posed existential threats to us, and we removed them together, and now also with the Houthis. But what began in Gaza m

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