For their part, the main telecommunications companies in the Gaza Strip announced this Thursday the closure of services due to the lack of electricity supply, following the severe fuel shortages in the Palestinian enclave.
Israeli forces assure they control the western part of Gaza City and are moving towards a new phase of their ground offensive on the enclave, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Thursday.
“We have gained control of the western part of Gaza City” and “we are moving to the next phase” of the invasion of Gaza, the minister said, according to a statement from his office.
His statements come hours after the Israeli army announced that it has also taken control of the Gaza port, in the same part of the city, in an operation carried out in recent days as troops continue their advance into the Strip in the Deepen Gaza Strip. 41st day of war.
“The further we progress in the operation, the more we will increase the pressure on Hamas and we will be able to eliminate its terrorist infrastructure, including its headquarters and tunnels, and at the same time we will eliminate its leaders and operatives,” he said. Gallant. stressed out.
This comes as the army continues for a second day a “precise and selective” operation to locate and dismantle Hamas’ alleged military infrastructure at Gaza’s Al Shifa Hospital, also located in the western part of the city, where it claims to have found information and dismantled it. images of captured hostages.
The ground offensive inside the enclave began on October 27 and has since killed 51 soldiers, after Israel announced the deaths of three soldiers today. In turn, Israeli bombing of the enclave has caused more than 11,500 deaths in the Gaza Strip since the war broke out on October 7.
It is the war with the greatest human damage in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in recent decades.
New power outages in Gaza
The main telecommunications companies in the Gaza Strip announced this Thursday the closure of services due to the lack of electricity supply, following the severe fuel shortages that the Palestinian enclave has been experiencing since the outbreak of the conflict on October 7.
“We regret to announce that all telecommunications services have been left without service, as all energy sources supporting the network have been exhausted and fuel is no longer coming in,” the companies Jawwal and Paltel have explained on their social networks.
Companies have been warning for days about these restrictions, which are due to the lack of electric generators. Humanitarian organizations have also warned that these power outages are complicating care for the population and the Gaza Strip government has acknowledged that poor communications are preventing the balance between the victims of the Israeli military offensive.
Israeli authorities on Wednesday authorized the import of fuel for the first time: 23,000 liters destined for the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA). However, as the organization itself explains, this dispatch is limited to facilitating the operation of vehicles transporting relief supplies.
Source: EITB
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