2025-09-17
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Hello and welcome to World Today, I'm Zhao Ying.
Coming up, Israel has launched ground offensive in Gaza City.
How far will it go and who can stop it?
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Israel has launched its long-planned ground offensive on Gaza City.
Israeli troops have pressed deep into the city,
triggering the forced displacement of tens of thousands of Palestinians.
The offensive comes as the UN Commission of Inquiry found that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry dismissed the UN report as fake.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies have repeatedly insisted that they will not end the war before Hamas is destroyed.
For more, we are joined by Dr. He Wenping,
senior research fellow at Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
How is this ground offensive different from Israel's previous military operations in Gaza?
Well, come around,
we can see the Netanyahu government already come up with another comprehensive and thorough strategy towards Gaza.
Now there are bombardment lots in the north city of Gaza,