The Israeli Army has attacked eastern Rafah and has resumed operations in the Zeitun neighborhood of Gaza City.
The Israeli Army maintains “precise operations” in the eastern part of Rafah, where it ordered the evacuation of civilians last Monday; and has resumed its military activity in Zeitun, a neighborhood in Gaza City, where Hamas troops have returned, according to a statement from the Israeli Army.
Israeli troops located more than a dozen underground tunnels in Ráfah and on the Palestinian side of the Ráfah crossing, which connects the enclave with Egypt, “they eliminated several terrorist cells in hand-to-hand combat and with air strikes.”
Israel began the operation in Rafah on Monday, although it insists that these are selective raids in the eastern part of that city, at the southern end of the Strip and where some 1.5 million displaced people live, more than half of the population. Gazan population.
The Israeli Army ordered the evacuation of some 100,000 people in the eastern part of the city on Monday and on Tuesday took control of the Rafah crossing, which connects the enclave with Egypt and is vital for the entry of humanitarian aid, in addition to intensifying the bombings in the area.
“As shelling by Israeli forces in Rafah intensifies, forced displacement continues. An estimated 110,000 people have fled Rafah in search of safety. But nowhere is safe in the Gaza Strip and the conditions lives are atrocious,” UNRWA laments today.
In seven months of war, more than 34,900 Gazans have died, including 15,000 children; while some 10,000 bodies remain missing under the rubble.
Source: Eitb
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