(EFE).- The Israeli army said this Wednesday that it had attacked more than 11,000 Hamas targets since the war against the Islamist militias in the Gaza Strip began on October 7, after another night of intense bombing from the air and from the air Land from enclave.
“Overnight, combined Israel Defense Forces (IDF) forces attacked multiple terrorist targets across the Gaza Strip, including operational command centers and Hamas terrorist cells,” a military spokesman said.
IDF troops identified a vehicle carrying anti-tank missiles that was successfully attacked by an Israeli warplane.
The army also cited the attack on the Jabalia Palestinian refugee camp in northern Gaza, in which hospital officials said at least 145 people died after several one-ton rockets were fired in one of the deadliest attacks. for Israel.
In northern Gaza, at least 145 people died after several one-ton rockets were fired in one of Israel’s deadliest attacks, according to hospital reports
“During fighting yesterday (Tuesday), troops identified several Hamas terrorists who barricaded themselves in a multi-story building near a school, a medical center and government offices in the Jabalia area. They were given orders to attack the Air Force terrorists,” a military spokesman said.
The army already confirmed yesterday this attack by the elite Givati brigade on Jabalia, which, according to Israel, is the “military bastion” of Hamas in the north of the Gaza Strip and is used “to train and carry out terrorist activities.” ” and where there were “firing positions, tunnels used by terrorists as a passage to the coast, and a large arsenal of weapons.”
The army claimed to have killed more than fifty “terrorists” in the attack on Jabalia, including Ibrahim Biari, the commander of the Jabalia battalion, who Israel says was one of the Hamas commanders responsible for sending elite militiamen to Israel were responsible for committing crimes October 7 attacks. They also said they found intelligence documents at the site.
Today, for the first time since Israeli bombing began, dozens of Egyptian ambulances crossed the Rafah border crossing to transport wounded Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt for treatment, witnesses and Egyptian media reported.
Egyptian television channels show images of a long line of other Egyptian ambulances in front of the Rafah border crossing, the only entrance and exit into the besieged Palestinian territory, which is not in Israel’s hands and is also due to enter next door today. Palestinians should refer “serious cases”.
Sources said Egypt hopes to transfer about 80 injured Gazans later today to hospitals in the cities of Sheikh Zuaid and Al Arish, about 15 and 30 kilometers from the border crossing, respectively, where they will receive first aid, in some cases ever transferred to other medical centers depending on the severity of their injury.
Egypt hopes to bring about 80 wounded Gazans to hospitals in the cities of Sheikh Zuaid and Al Arish, about 15 and 30 kilometers from the border crossing, respectively, later today.
They stressed that the Egyptian ambulances will not go deep into the Palestinian Strip, which is the target of constant Israeli bombing, but that they will wait on the other side of the border crossing at an agreed point to transport the wounded Gazans in a line provided by the Egyptian Government-coordinated operation to receive Palestinian Red Crescent. .
For days, Egypt has said it is ready to receive and treat “any number of wounded” Palestinians from the Gaza Strip as soon as they are allowed to leave the Palestinian enclave, home to 2.2 million people.
The Egyptian government, a key mediator between Israel and the Palestinians, said since mid-October that it had placed hospitals in North Sinai such as Al Arish and Beir al Abd, as well as the Naser Institute medical center in Cairo, on high alert to receive wounded Palestinians .
In addition to the medical centers in North Sinai, Cairo has sent mobile clinics to the region and increased health personnel in various medical specialties, while stockpiling all kinds of medical supplies and blood bags and putting the hospital on alert. Emergency system for dealing with “epidemics”. “.
Gaza’s Health Ministry warned on Tuesday that the humanitarian crisis triggered an epidemic wave that has already affected about 3,100 people, most of them children, with scabies, diarrhea, bronchial infections, food poisoning and chickenpox.
Several United Nations agencies have denounced Israeli attacks on the health system in the Gaza Strip and warned of the deteriorating situation of hospitals in the Palestinian enclave due to bombings, lack of medical supplies and fuel, and constant communications blackouts.
A group of Palestinians with dual nationality also crossed Rafah, possibly numbering a hundred, although the exact number is unknown.
A group of Palestinians with dual nationality also crossed Rafah, possibly numbering a hundred, although the exact number is unknown.
Sources at the Rafa border crossing told EFE that this “first group” of Palestinians with dual nationality “is completing the procedures that will allow them to stay in Egyptian territory” and did not rule out allowing “other foreign passport holders” to cross to allow Egypt.
They also stressed that this approval follows an agreement between the Egyptian and Israeli authorities, mediated by Qatar and the United States, for the departure from Gaza of “approximately 500 foreign passport holders” from the Palestinian enclave.
Egypt, which categorically opposes the movement of Palestinian refugees into Egypt’s Sinai, has repeatedly accused Israel of restricting the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza and the departure of foreigners from the enclave.
The Egyptian authorities have also repeatedly shown their willingness to allow foreigners of different nationalities to cross the border, provided they then travel to their respective countries.
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