The Israeli army said, on Monday, that it had airdropped about seven tons of equipment for hundreds of its soldiers, who were fighting in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
According to the Times of Israel, this is the first time since the 2006 Lebanon War that the Israeli army has dropped equipment from the air for its forces on the ground.
A video clip, published by the Israeli army, shows a C-130J transport plane, belonging to the 103rd Squadron of the Israeli Air Force, dropping equipment.
The fighting in Khan Yunis comes at a time when Israel is refocusing its war efforts, which have been ongoing for more than two months, on the south, after bombing northern Gaza and expelling the majority of the Palestinian Strip’s population, numbering 2.3 million people, from their homes.
Residents of Khan Yunis reported on Sunday that tanks reached the main road linking the north and south of the Strip through the city center, while warplanes bombed the area west of the site of the attack.
For his part, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres revealed that the city is on the verge of collapse with the possibility of an outbreak of epidemic diseases.
Israel vowed to eliminate Hamas after armed fighters stormed the border fence and attacked towns in southern Israel on October 7. Tel Aviv says the attack killed 1,200 people and took 240 hostages to Gaza.
On the other hand, health authorities in Gaza indicate that about 18,000 people have been killed since then and 49,500 have been injured.
2023-12-11 11:02:48
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