At least 35 Palestinians have been killed in the last 24 hours by Israeli attacks in Rafahat the southern end of the Gaza Stripwhere the Israeli Army has begun a military operation, after ordering the civilian population to evacuate the eastern part of the city.
In addition, according to medical sources, 129 people have been injured in the attacks on the town, where some 1.5 million Gazans displaced by violence are taking refuge.
“The Israel Defense Forces are carrying out a precise counter-terrorism operation in specific areas of eastern Rafah. Terrorists were eliminated and underground wells and infrastructure were located in different areas,” an Israeli Army statement said.
Selective raids
The Army assures that in armed confrontations recorded in the last hours, Israeli troops “eliminated terrorists” and began the process of “dismantling terrorist infrastructure.”
He also points out that selective raids are being carried out according to intelligence information, to capture the militants of Hamas that operate in the area, specifically four battalions of the Islamist group that Israel places in that southern area of the enclave.
In an interview with the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoththe spokesman for the Israeli Army, Daniel Hagariindicated today that the Hamas troops remaining in the Strip will now foreseeably move north and regroup there, although he promised that his troops “will return and operate wherever they are needed.”
The international community, including USAhas insistently warned about the catastrophic consequences that a large-scale military operation would have in Rafah.
For now, Israel has ordered the evacuation of some 100,000 people from the east of the town, who have had to move to the Rebelsan area already saturated with displaced people.
Bombings throughout the Gaza Strip
In parallel to the operation in RafahIsraeli aviation attacked more than 100 terrorist targets throughout the Strip, “including military structures, observation posts, launching points and additional military infrastructure.”
The official Palestinian agency He died reported on Israeli bombings in the neighborhood of Geneinato the east of Rafahbut also in the west of the city, causing several deaths.
He died also notes that two women died in artillery attacks in the city of Khuzaain the east of Jan Yunis.
In addition, Israeli artillery and helicopters also attacked the neighborhood of Olivein the city of Gaza; as well as Mughraqain the center, said the Palestinian agency.
Israel destroys at least 80 homes in a Bedouin village
At least 80 homes were demolished this Wednesday in the Bedouin village of Wadi al-Jalilnear the town of Umm al Inner in the desert Néguevsouthern Israel, in an Israeli operation in which 320 residents have been expelled, half of them children, as confirmed to EFE Nati Yefetspokesperson for the Regional Council for Unrecognized Villages of the Néguev.
“Hundreds of residents, children and the elderly, are being evacuated from their homes by an (Israeli) government that insists on trampling and forcibly harming the Bedouin society of the Néguev“, denounced the representative of the Negev on the United Arab List, Waleed Alhwashla in his account X.
In addition, Yefet He indicated that the Israeli authorities destroyed the village mosque, farms and other structures in an operation that began at eight in the morning with bulldozers and a hundred police officers. During the demolitions, one person was arrested.
The Israeli government is forcing residents of Wadi al Jalil to move to Umm al Batin, where they are not welcome and face threats, due to the expansion of Highway 6 to the south, Yefet explained.
They begin to exhume a new mass grave in Al Shifa hospital
The Gazan Government of Hamas in the Gaza Strip announced this Wednesday that it had identified a new mass grave from which 49 bodies have already been exhumed in the hospital Al Shifawhich was completely out of service after a weeks-long siege by the Israeli Army.
Gazan authorities said that rescue teams continue to unearth bodies and that they expect to find “dozens of new bodies” in this grave, which is already the third in this hospital center from which some 400 dead have already been recovered, according to a statement.
During its operations at the hospital, Israel claimed to have killed some 200 suspected militants and interrogated more than 800 suspects, among whom it claimed to have identified some 500 members of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihadincluding senior officials.
WHO: Gaza is again under total blockade
The population of Gaza is again “under a total blockade” after Israel took control of the border crossing Rafah (con Egypt) and interrupt the entry of all humanitarian aid, the head of health emergencies at the World Health Organization (WHO) said this Wednesday. Mike Ryan.
Commenting at a press conference on what Israel calls a “limited offensive” in the town south of Gazawhere there are more than 1.4 million Palestinians, including 600,000 children, Ryan He said that this military incursion cannot be described as limited if food and fuel are not allowed in, without which “the entire humanitarian system collapses.”
The OMS indicated that there is only fuel for the hospital generators to continue operating for two or three more days, but its general director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesusassured that they will not withdraw from Rafah.
“We will stay and continue working together with our partners,” he declared. EFE
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