AGI – Israeli troops are operating inside Gaza City and they are surrounding it from different directions, marking another turning point in the conflict triggered by the massacres committed by an incursion of Hamas in the territory of the Jewish State on October 7th. This was reported by IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi in a televised statement reported by the Israeli media. Halevi added that “we have brought forward another significant phase of the war. The troops are in the heart of northern Gaza, operating in Gaza city, surrounding it and deepening the ground offensive and the results achieved.” “The forces are fighting in a dense and complex urban area, which requires professional combat and courage,” he says.
Hostilities continue to claim victims among one civilian population exhausted and deprived of all basic necessities. An Israeli attack hit a residential building in Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, killing at least 15 people, the Associated Press reports, citing a spokesperson for Gaza’s civil defense. Residents said that dozens of people were trapped under the rubble.
Gaza’s Hamas-run Ministry of Health later reported that 27 Palestinians died in an Israeli air raid near a UN agency UNRWA school in the Strip. The Red Crescent instead reported shots fired at one of its hospitals in the enclave and the consequent wounding of two people. Since the beginning of the war, according to the local Ministry of Health, 9,061 people were killed in Gazaof which 3,760 under 18 years of age.
Netanyahu denies the army: “No fuel in Gaza”
After Chief of Staff Halevi announced that Israel would allow fuel into Gaza if hospitals run out, the Prime Minister’s Office issues a statement stressing that Benjamin Netanyahu did not approve any such transfer. According to US estimates, Hamas holds approximately 40% of the 500,000 liters of fuel in Gaza.
The Israeli army “is already beyond the gates of Gaza City” and is “making progress”, Netanyahu said again speaking to the soldiers of the special units, “we too have painful losses, but I want one thing to be clear: nothing will stop.”
Clashes with Hezbollah continue
Meanwhile, the second front in the north, on the border with Lebanon, remains open. Hezbollah said it simultaneously attacked 19 positions in Israel along the border. Sirens sounded in northern Israel and a rocket exploded in the town of Kiryat Shmona, causing a fire.
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Israeli soldiers engaged in the operation in Gaza
In response to the attacks on northern Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said it had carried out large-scale airstrikes on Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon. The IDF says that among the targets hit so far by fighter jets, tanks and artillery are military headquarters, rocket launch sites, weapons storage sites, military compounds and other infrastructure belonging to the terrorist group.
The Imam Hussein Brigadelinked to Iran, was transferred from Syria, where it was originally deployed, to southern Lebanon to support Hezbollah, an Israeli military spokesman said, Avichay Adraee. “After a series of failures suffered by Hezbollah against Israel in recent weeks, the Iranian Imam Hussein Brigade, led by a commander known as Zulfiqar, has arrived in southern Lebanon,” he reported on they clashed with Israeli soldiers along the border.
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2023-11-02 17:44:00
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