The intensive fighting by the Israeli armed forces against the Islamist group Hamas in the north of the Gaza Strip has ended, according to the Israeli Ministry of Defense. The intensive phase of the ground offensive in the south of the sealed-off coastal strip in the area of the city of Khan Younis will also soon be over, the newspaper The Times of Israel quoted Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as saying on Monday. “At the end of the war, there will be no military threat from Gaza. Hamas will not be able to control and function as a military force in the Gaza Strip, and the IDF will have …