The Gaza war is entering its eighth month and Hamas continues to confront the Israeli military machine in both the north and south of the Strip. The tens of thousands of men from the occupation troops deployed have not put an end to the Palestinian armed resistance even in areas where it had already been considered defeated and which Israel was supposed to have had under control for months.
Faced with this pressure from Hamas, the army ordered new forced movements of the Palestinian population in the north and south of Gaza on Saturday morning that international law considers illegal. The main objectives of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war plan, which include annihilating Hamas and bringing back the hostages, remain elusive as internal and international pressure grows against the Israeli leader.
In a statement with instructions and maps on the social network their men and their tanks this week, but also from the north. That northern area is an area that, supposedly, the military already had under its control because it is the first area of the Strip that they occupied at the end of October with the beginning of the land incursion.
“Hamas is trying to rebuild its capabilities in the region and therefore the army will work with great force against the terrorist organizations in the region in which they are located and therefore everyone who is in those areas will be “They expose themselves and their families to danger,” says Adraee in a message that Israel repeats time and time again to justify these population movements. Behind this statement is the confirmation that the Palestinian armed resistance fights throughout the Strip.
Hamas has released videos in the last hour in which they supposedly confront occupation troops in both the south and the north. The deaths fall by dozens every day on the Palestinian side and are now close to 35,000 since the war began on October 7, according to data from the Palestinian Ministry of Health. That day, Hamas militiamen murdered around 1,200 people in Israeli territory and kidnapped around 250, according to official reports, of which more than a hundred, many dead, still remain within the enclave. Just over 600 Israeli soldiers, around fifty due to friendly fire, have lost their lives during the invasion of Gaza.
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With this Saturday’s order, Israel maintains pressure on the Palestinian refugees in the south, in neighborhoods of the town of Rafah, to leave their places of residence. That town on the border with Egypt was supposedly the last remaining refuge for the fundamentalist group. Four battalions, specifically, according to Netanyahu, whose troops would be trying to stop the advance of Israeli soldiers and armored vehicles, which since last Tuesday have controlled and kept closed the only border crossing that connects Gaza with Egypt. This is a fundamental artery for the supply of humanitarian aid to the million and a half people who are crowded in the area.
Throughout Friday, Israel gained new positions in that southeast of Gaza. Despite expanding the area they already controlled, in principle, it does not represent a large-scale operation like the one that its ally the United States warns it will not support. Despite everything, fear of a greater Israeli incursion has already caused the displacement of more than 140,000 Gazans in that area, according to the UN reported on Friday. This Saturday’s message from the military spokesperson indicating new neighborhoods to evacuate increases the pressure even more. The army raises the number of those who have left to more than double that of the United Nations and estimates it to be around 300,000, according to data from this Saturday.
“We appeal to other neighborhoods in eastern Rafah in the face of the terrorist activities of Hamas in recent days and weeks, together with other terrorist structures, specifically in the camps of Rafah and Shaboura, and the neighborhoods of Al-Adari, Al-Jeneina and Khirbet Al-Adas,” the military statement said. The message asks citizens to go to the Al Mawasi camping area, on the Mediterranean coast, a place where both the UN and humanitarian organizations consider that the minimum requirements for living are not met, in addition to still being a place unsafe like the entire enclave.
The order issued by Adraee also requires citizens of the north to do the same, specifically from different neighborhoods of the Jabalia refugee camp and the town of Beit Lahia. He asks them to go to areas west of Gaza City. The reason given by the military spokesman is that it is “a dangerous combat zone”, where clashes with Hamas elements continue to occur, which is why Israel openly acknowledges that they continue to have problems in that northern end of the enclave. “It is prohibited to approach the security fence, since approaching the fence constitutes a danger to your life and safety,” the statement also comments, referring to the border limits of the Strip with Israeli territories.
Israel confirmed this Friday the death of four members of the Nahal brigade, all 19 years old, in Gaza City. The deaths were a consequence of the explosion of a bomb in the Zeitun neighborhood, in one of those areas that the army had already swept at the end of 2023.
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