Israel advances on Rafah and orders new evacuations in Jabalia

Nails 450,000 people, 20% of the population, have fled Rafah since the start of the Israeli military operation in that city, where tanks entered western neighborhoods on Tuesday intensifies its offensive in Yabaliain the north of the Strip, where evacuations ordered in more areas.

“The streets are empty in Rafah and families are fleeing for safety. People face constant exhaustion, hunger and fear,” the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency said.UNRWA).

The city, on the border with Egypt, has suffered greatly air and artillery bombardmentsas Israeli tanks advance west towards the city center, entering the neighborhoods of Geneina, Salam and Brazil.

The tanks have crossed the threshold of the Salah al Din road, which divides the city into eastern and western halves. clashes with Palestinian militias in the urbanized area of ​​Rafah.

“Israeli Armed Forces troops have eliminated several armed terrorist cells in hand-to-hand combat on the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing,” said a statement from the Israeli army, which took control of the Palestinian part a week ago. took over from that border crossing and since then humanitarian aid is not coming in Yonder.

New evacuations in Yabalia

Last Tuesday, Israeli forces expanded their activities with “selective operations against terrorist targets” in Jabalia, where “numerous battles were fought, artillery tanks eliminated dozens of terrorists and a network of explosives was dismantled,” the army said, calling for the evacuation of two new neighborhoods, Atatra and Salatin.

Israel resumed military activities in Jabalia on Sunday due to the return and redeployment of Hamas forces in that area of ​​the Northern Strip, where it already undertook a heavy offensive in October, at the start of the war.

In any case, the Israeli offensive in Gaza has caused this 82 dead and 234 injureddaily figures significantly higher than those of recent weeks.

There have been deaths since the war began on October 7 35,173 – more than 70% civilians – and 79,061 injuredaccording to the health ministry count of the Hamas-controlled enclave, which estimates that 10,000 bodies are trapped under the rubble.

Israel says about 15,000 of the dead were fighters.

Palestinian medical services also reported an Israeli airstrike on a family home in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the center of the Strip, where dozens of people took refuge. 20 died.

Rescue services say there are still bodies under the rubble, but ambulances cannot reach them.

In Nuseirat, Israeli planes also bombed an UNRWA school housing displaced people, causing a fire, Palestinian media said.

About Monday’s attack against a United Nations vehicle In Rafah, a military spokesman indicated that it was an “active combat zone” and that the army was not aware of the vehicle’s route. One international staff member from the UN Department of Safety and Security was killed and another was injured.

Israel calls on Egypt to reopen the Rafah border crossing and rules out giving up control

The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel Katzhas urged European governments to do so Putting pressure on Egypt to reopen the Rafah border crossingwarning that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will not relinquish control of the Gazan side under any circumstances.

“The world places the responsibility for the humanitarian situation on Israel, but the key to preventing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza now lies in the hands of our Egyptian friends,” Katz argued on his social network account in his contacts with colleagues from the United Kingdom Kingdom and Germany. and Italy.

He hopes that these countries will somehow ‘convince’ the Egyptian authorities, after the seizure of the pass by Israeli forces further restricted aid access to the Palestinian enclave.

Ben Gvir calls on Netanyahu to force Palestinians from Gaza into ‘voluntary migration’

Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvirthe head of government has asked: Benjamin Netanyahuthat encourages settlements in the Gaza Strip and force Palestinians to ‘voluntary migration’.

Ben Gvir took part in a demonstration in the city of Sderot on Tuesday, where he was called to demand that Netanyahu’s government occupy the Palestinian enclave once the war was over.

The Minister of Communications also participated in the same mobilization, Shlomo Karhiwho has defended the establishment of settlements as a way to “make the Hamas Nazis pay” and defend the Israeli “nation.”