450,000 people, 20% of its population, have fled Rafah since the start of Israel’s military operation.
Nails 450,000 people, 20% of its population, have fled Rafah since the beginning of Israel’s military operation in that city, where tanks penetrated western neighborhoods this Tuesday, while intensifies its offensive in Yabaliain the north of the Strip, where ordered evacuations in more areas.
“The streets are empty in Rafah and families are fleeing for safety. People face constant exhaustion, hunger and fear,” said the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA).
The city, on the border with Egypt, has suffered intense air and artillery bombardmentswhile Israeli tanks advance west towards the city center, entering the neighborhoods of Geneina, Salam and Brazil.
The tanks have crossed the threshold of the Salah al Din road, which divides the city into eastern and western halves, and there are clashes with Palestinian militias in the urbanized area of Rafah.
“Israel Defense Forces troops eliminated several armed terrorist cells in hand-to-hand combat on the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing,” said a statement from the Israeli Army, which a week ago took control of the Palestinian part of that crossing. step and since then humanitarian aid does not enter Over there.
New evacuations in Yabalia
This Tuesday, Israeli troops expanded their activity with “selective operations against terrorist targets” in Jabalia, where “numerous battles were fought, artillery tanks eliminated dozens of terrorists and a network of explosives was dismantled,” said the Army, which requested the evacuation of two new neighborhoods, Atatra and Salatin.
Israel resumed its military activity in Jabalia on Sunday due to the return and regrouping of Hamas troops in that area of the northern Strip, where it already undertook a tough offensive in October, at the beginning of the war.
The Israeli offensive in Gaza has caused at least 82 dead and 234 injureddaily figures significantly higher than those recorded in recent weeks.
Since the start of the war on October 7, the dead have risen to 35,173 – more than 70% civilians – and 79,061 injuredaccording to the count of the Ministry of Health of the enclave, controlled by Hamas, which estimates that there are 10,000 bodies trapped under the rubble.
According to Israel, of the dead, some 15,000 are combatants.
Palestinian medical services also reported an Israeli airstrike against a family home in the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the center of the Strip, where dozens of people were taking refuge. 20 died.
Rescue services say there are still bodies under the rubble but that ambulances cannot reach them.
In Nuseirat, Israeli aircraft also bombed a UNRWA school with displaced people, causing a fire, according to Palestinian media.
About Monday’s attack against a United Nations vehicle In Rafah, a military spokesman indicated that it was an “active combat zone,” and that the Army was not aware of the vehicle’s route. One international worker from the UN Department of Safety and Security was killed, and another was injured.
Israel calls on Egypt to reopen the Rafah crossing and rules out giving up control
The Israeli Foreign Minister, Israel Katzhas urged European governments to pressure Egypt to reopen the Rafah border crossingwarning that under no circumstances will the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) relinquish control of the Gazan side.
“The world places responsibility for the humanitarian situation on Israel, but the key to preventing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza is now in the hands of our Egyptian friends,” Katz argued on his social network account his contacts with counterparts from the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy.
He hopes that these countries will somehow “convince” the Egyptian authorities, after the seizure of the pass by Israeli forces has further limited the entry of aid into the Palestinian enclave.
Ben Gvir calls on Netanyahu to force Gaza Palestinians into ‘voluntary migration’
Israel’s Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvirhas asked the head of Government, Benjamin Netantahuwhich encourages settlements in the Gaza Strip and force Palestinians into “voluntary migration”.
Ben Gvir participated this Tuesday in a demonstration in the city of Sderot, called to demand that the Netanyahu Government occupy the Palestinian enclave once the war ends.
The Minister of Communications has also participated in that same mobilization, Shlomo Karhiwho has defended the establishment of settlements as a way to “make the Hamas Nazis pay” and defend the Israeli “nation.”
Source: Eitb
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