AGI – Israeli troops operate inside Gaza City and they surround it from different directions, marking another turning point in the conflict triggered by the massacres carried out in an incursion by Hamas on 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 Israeli media. Halevi added: “We have advanced another significant phase of the war. The troops are in the heart of the northern Gaza Strip, 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 that requires professional combat and courage,” he says.
The hostilities continue to claim victims among each other Civilian population exhausted and deprived of all basic needs. An Israeli attack hit a residential building Bureij refugee camp, in central Gaza, killing at least 15 people, the Associated Press reported, citing a Gaza Civil Defense spokesman. This is what residents said Dozens of people were trapped under the rubble.
The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza later reported that 27 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike near a UN agency UNRWA school in the Gaza Strip. The Red Crescent instead reported shots fired at one of its hospitals in the enclave and the resulting wounding of two people. Since the beginning of the war, according to the local health ministry, 9,061 people were killed in Gazaincluding 3,760 under 18 years of age.
Netanyahu denies army: “No fuel in Gaza”
After Chief of Staff Halevi announced that Israel would allow fuel into the Gaza Strip if hospitals run short, the Prime Minister’s Office issued a statement emphasizing this Benjamin Netanyahu has not consented to such a transfer. According to US estimates Hamas has about 40% of Gaza’s 500,000 liters of fuel.
The Israeli army is “already at the gates of Gaza City” and is “making progress,” Netanyahu said again in a conversation with the special forces soldiers. “We also have painful losses, but I want to make one thing clear: nothing will happen.” to 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 wailed in northern Israel and a rocket exploded in the town of Kiryat Shmona, causing a fire.
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Israeli soldiers took part in the operation in the Gaza Strip
In response to the attacks on northern Israel, Israeli forces said they had carried out large-scale airstrikes on Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon. According to the IDF, targets attacked so far by fighter jets, tanks and artillery include military headquarters, missile launch sites, weapons storage sites, military sites and other infrastructure belonging to the terrorist group.
There Imam Hussein BrigadeThe Iran-linked plane was moved from Syria, where it was originally based, 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 named Zulfiqar, has arrived in southern Lebanon,” he said, reporting clashes with Israeli soldiers along the border .
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