The Israel called his today Palestinians in more districts of the southern Gaza city of Rafah to evacuate and head to the “expanded humanitarian area” in al-Mawashi, reinforcing indications that the army is preparing to implement operational plans for a ground assault on Rafah.
In a post on the social networking platform X, a military spokesman also called on the residents and displaced people of other areas in the Jabalia area located in the north of Gaza, as well as in 11 other districts to immediately rush to the shelters located in the west of it Gaza City.
According to the Palestinian news agency WAFA, 24 Palestinians were killed overnight after an aerial bombardment by Israeli fighters in central Gaza.
Despite strong American pressure, residents’ concerns, and humanitarian aid groups, Israel has announced it will go ahead with a military invasion of Rafah, where more than 1 million displaced people have sought refuge since the start of the seven-month war. .
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has announced that so far, approximately 300,000 Gazans have moved to the Al Mawasi area.
Israel has announced that it will not win unless it uproots thousands of fighters from the Islamic Hamas movement, which it believes are deployed in Rafah.
Israeli tanks yesterday seized the main road dividing the city’s eastern and western districts, effectively encircling the eastern side, in an attack that prompted Washington to suspend US military aid.
Israel is a key US ally in the Middle East region.
The White House said yesterday that it was watching “with concern” Israel’s military operations, which appeared to be localized around the damaged Rafah border crossing and did not appear to reflect a large-scale incursion by Israeli military forces into the city.
The war was sparked by Hamas’s attack on southern Israel, which killed around 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostages, according to Israel.
About 35,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel’s military operation in Gaza, which has as its objective the neutralization of Hamas, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The shelling has devastated the coastal enclave of Gaza, causing a profound humanitarian disaster.
President Joe Biden’s administration announced yesterday that Israel’s use of US-sourced weapons may have violated international humanitarian law during the war in Gaza, in the harshest criticism of the US to date. of Israel.
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