The Israeli army has called on residents of two neighborhoods in Gaza City to flee. The call, issued in Arabic on Tuesday by an Israeli military spokesman, urged residents of the Al-Zaytoun and Al-Turkman neighborhoods to immediately move to a designated area further south on the Mediterranean Sea. This was seen as a sign of upcoming new Israeli military operations in the neighborhoods.
According to UN figures, up to 1.7 million of the Gaza Strip’s more than 2.2 million residents have been forced to leave their homes since the war began in October. According to information, approximately 1.5 million people are crammed into the city of Rafah on the border with Egypt alone. Residents of the narrow coastal strip often had to flee several times. There was also shelling in areas classified as safe.
“Intensive operations” in western Rafah
Meanwhile, the Israeli army says it has continued its attacks on Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The army announced on Tuesday morning that dozens of terrorist militia fighters had been killed in the past 24 hours during ongoing “intensive operations” in the western town of Khan Younis in the southern coastal region, which has been the scene of intense fighting for weeks. . A large arms depot in the city was also hit. The Israeli military also said terrorists had been killed in the center of the closed Gaza Strip in the past day.
According to the Hamas-controlled health authority there, 103 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours. According to the authority, 142 Palestinians were injured. Neither the information provided by the Israeli military nor the authorities in Gaza can be independently verified.
Many refugees return to their hometowns
In recent months, residents of the northern Gaza Strip have been repeatedly called to evacuate their homes as they have become combat zones. The Israeli offensive caused devastating destruction there. Some residents have returned to their homes, although the Israeli army tried to prevent this.
The Gaza War was sparked by the unprecedented massacre wrought on October 7 by terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups in Israel, near the border with the Gaza Strip. More than 1,200 people were killed in Israel and 250 hostages taken to the Gaza Strip. Israel responded with massive air strikes and a ground offensive. Since then, more than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, according to the Hamas-controlled health authority.
Source: Krone
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