[UPDATE-Day 20-Oct 26-21:00Z] Israel-Hamas War: Real Time Reaction and Analysis

IDF conducts targeted raid inside Gaza with tanks Israeli forces hit Hamas targets in the northern Strip and “operated to prepare the battlefield” ahead of an expected ground invasion. Israeli tanks rolled into the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday night in a targeted raid “as part of preparations for the next stages of combat,” according to an IDF statement. Under the command of the Givati Brigade, the IDF said that soldiers struck terrorists along with terror infrastructure and anti-tank missile launch posts and “operated to prepare the battlefield,” leaving the area at the end of the mission and returning to…