The Israeli army intensified the bombardment of the northern Gaza Strip, and they announced that a siege would be placed on towns there, and they demanded that areas in the north of Israel be evacuated and considered them as “closed military zone”. Lebanon. This field development coincides with Israel’s commemoration of the Day of Atonement, “Yom Kippur,” which is dedicated to prayer and fasting.
The Israeli army, on Saturday, said that its forces bombed 280 “terrorist targets” in the context of combat operations in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip during Yom Kippur, that is, from Friday evening to Saturday evening.
The army said in a statement that the Israeli Air Force “struck around 280 terrorist targets belonging to Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. These targets included underground terrorist infrastructure, military bases , military command centers, terrorist cells, and other terrorist infrastructure.”
Northern Gaza
New orders to evict residents of northern Gaza. Archive
Since last week, the Israeli army has intensified its operations in Jabalia after announcing the imposition of a siege on the area in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, which worsened the suffering of hundreds of thousands. of people lost there, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
The army statement said, “In Jabalia, the 162nd Division eliminated more than 20 militants in the past hours using tanks, direct combat and airstrikes. So far, about 200 eliminate terrorism in operation in the region.”
Thousands Trapped in Jabalia as Israel Intensifies Attack in Northern Gaza Strip
The Gaza Civil Defense announced on Friday evening that 30 people were killed in Israeli strikes in the Jabalia area, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
Medics told Reuters on Saturday that at least 29 Palestinians were killed in Israeli army attacks on the Gaza Strip on Saturday, as forces continued to advance into the Jabalia area, where international aid groups say that thousands are trapped there.
They said 19 people were killed in Gaza overnight, and another 10 were killed on Saturday night after Israeli bombing of two homes in Jabalia and Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip, indicating that the number due to the presence of injured people in emergency situations.
The Israeli army is intensifying the bombing of northern Gaza. Archive
The Israeli army issued new evacuation orders on Saturday for residents of two neighborhoods on the northern edge of Gaza City, which are also in the northern Gaza Strip, describing them as a “dangerous combat zone.”
Palestinian health officials believe that the death toll in Jabalia in the past week reached around 150.
Palestinian and United Nations officials say there are no safe areas in Gaza, and they also expressed concern about the severe shortage of food, fuel and medical supplies in northern Gaza, where they warned of the risk of famine.
High death toll in Gaza and new evacuation orders
Gaza witnessed a new wave of intense Israeli raids on Friday night, which resulted in dozens of deaths and injuries, according to Al Hurra correspondent in the Gaza Strip, while the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that the number death since October 7 last year. year increased to 42,175 people, and Israel issued new evacuation orders.
Gaza’s Health Ministry says the military campaign on the Strip, which Israel says is aimed at ousting Hamas, has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians since it began a year ago and caused damage on the Climb.
Israel denies that they targeted civilians.
The war began after a Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which Israeli statistics show killed 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages.
Israeli strikes kill dozens in Gaza on Yom Kippur
UN officials said on Friday that the Israeli offensive and evacuation orders in northern Gaza could affect the second phase of the polio vaccination campaign that is scheduled to begin this week.
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced on Saturday that the campaign will begin on Monday in the central areas of the Gaza Strip and will continue for three days before moving to other areas.
Relief groups carried out the first round of vaccinations last month after a child was partially paralyzed by the type 2 polio virus in August, the first case of its kind in the Strip in 25 years .
As in the first phase, it is planned to implement humanitarian peace between Israel and Hamas in Gaza to vaccinate hundreds of thousands of children.
Northern Israel
Consider the evacuation of areas in Israel as a military zone
The Israeli army declared several border towns in the north as closed military areas, namely Zarait, Shomra, Shtoula, Tantua, and Evan Menachem, according to what Al-Hurra journalist in Jerusalem said.
Dozens of missiles from Hezbollah on Israel on “Yom Kippur”
The Israeli army said that Lebanon’s Hezbollah fired about 320 projectiles from Lebanon into Israel on “Yom Kippur”, the holiest Jewish holiday, which began on Friday night and ended on Saturday night.
On Saturday, the Israeli army ordered residents of 23 villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate their homes to areas north of the Awali River, which flows from the Bekaa Valley in the west to the Mediterranean Sea.
The Israeli army said that Lebanese Hezbollah fired about 320 Lebanese projectiles at Israel on Yom Kippur.
Israel’s raid on Beirut continues
On September 30, Israeli forces began land border attacks into Lebanon, which they described as “limited” and “focused” against Hezbollah fighters.
Iran-backed Hezbollah opened a front against Israel from southern Lebanon on October 8, 2023, to support Gaza and Hamas.
9 people were killed in an Israeli raid that targeted two cities in Lebanon
On Saturday, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced that 9 people were killed and 28 others were wounded in two Israeli attacks, one targeting a town north of Beirut and the other south of the capital, in areas that are not considered traditional. Hezbollah strongholds.
After more than eleven months of cross-border bombing, the Israeli army stepped up its airstrikes against Hezbollah and launched a ground offensive different from the one it carries out in Gaza, where the flat terrain and the high population density.
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