Israeli tanks pushed deep into two northern Gaza towns and a historic refugee camp on Monday, trapping about 100,000 civilians, the Palestinian emergency service said, with the military saying the operation was aimed at rooting out regrouping Hamas militants. Were.
The Israeli military said troops captured about 100 suspected Hamas militants in a raid on the Kamal Adwan hospital in the Jabaliya camp. Hamas and doctors have denied any terrorist presence at the hospital.
The Gaza Strip’s health ministry said at least 19 people were killed in Israeli air strikes and bombardment on Monday, 13 of them in the north of the devastated coastal enclave.
The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said about 100,000 people were stranded in Jabaliya, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoun without medical or food supplies. Reuters could not independently verify the numbers.
The emergency service said its operations were halted due to a three-week Israeli offensive in the north, an area where the army said it had wiped out Hamas fighters in the year-long war.
Cease-fire talks led by the US, Egypt and Qatar resumed on Sunday after several failed attempts, with Egypt’s president proposing an initial two-day ceasefire to exchange four Israeli hostages from Hamas for some Palestinian prisoners. Kept, after which talks will take place within 10. Day on permanent ceasefire.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that the latest meetings in Doha focused on a new framework that takes into account previous proposals and regional developments.
He said without elaborating that mediators would resume talks in the coming days “in a continued effort to advance a deal.”
To date, Israel has repeatedly stated that the war will continue until Hamas is eliminated, while the Islamic movement has refused to end the fighting until Israeli forces leave Gaza.
The Gaza war has sparked wider conflict in the Middle East, raising concerns about global oil supplies, with Israel carrying out bombardments across Lebanon and an offensive to neutralize Hamas’s ally, Iran-backed Hezbollah. Have sent army to the south.
It has also led to rare direct clashes between regional arch-enemies Israel and Iran. Over the weekend, Israeli warplanes attacked missile production sites in Iran in retaliation for the October 1 Iranian missile attack on Israel.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday that Tehran would “use all available tools” to respond to Israel’s weekend attack.
Israel detonates bomb in south Lebanon, 7 killed
Israel continued attacks on Lebanon on Monday, including an early-morning airstrike on a district in the southern port of Tyre, which killed seven people, the Lebanese health ministry said.
The Israeli military later issued orders to evacuate large parts of Tyre, including areas that had not previously been asked to evacuate and including areas near seaside hotels where journalists usually stay. Are.
In an update, the Israeli military said it bombed a Hezbollah anti-tank missile depot and other weapons assets in Tire for the second time in as many days.
On Monday, footage of civil defense workers driving through tires and urging people to leave circulated online. “For your safety, due to the warning, evacuate immediately!” one of them shouted into a megaphone attached to the car.
Israel’s heightened evacuation warnings have turned much of southern Lebanon, including Tyre, into ghost towns, and a bombing campaign has left many towns along the border in ruins.
Hezbollah launched a series of attacks on Israeli troops and military targets inside Lebanese territory. It said it had struck a military equipment factory southeast of Acre, but there were no reports of damage or casualties.
‘Nonsense talk of ceasefire’
Three major hospitals in northern Gaza, whose officials refused Israel’s evacuation orders, said they were barely functioning. At least two were damaged by Israeli fire during the attack and supplies of medical, food and fuel were depleted.
At least one doctor, a nurse and two pediatric patients died in those hospitals last week due to lack of treatment.
Residents of northern Gaza said Israeli forces were surrounding schools and other shelters housing displaced families, ordering men out before rounding them up and telling women and children to leave the area for Gaza City and points to the south. Inspiring for.
Only a few families headed to southern Gaza as most preferred to relocate temporarily to Gaza City, fearing that otherwise they would never be able to reach their homes.
Some people said that he had written down his death notice in case he died from the continuous bombing.
“While the world is busy in Lebanon and talking new nonsense about a few days of ceasefire (in Gaza), northern Gaza is being decimated by the Israeli occupation,” a resident of Jabaliya told Reuters via a chat app. “And people are being displaced.”
The Israeli military says its forces act in keeping with international law and accuses the militants of hiding fighters and weapons in civilian areas, including hospitals and schools, a charge Hamas denies.
Northern Gaza was the first part of the enclave to be hit by Israel’s ground offensive following a Hamas cross-border offensive on October 7, 2023, with intensive bombardment that largely destroyed cities.
Nevertheless, Hamas-led militants continue to attack Israeli forces in hit-and-run operations.
According to Israeli data, Hamas’ 2023 attack killed 1,200 people and resulted in more than 250 hostages being taken to Gaza.
The death toll from Israeli retaliatory air and ground attacks in Gaza has reached 43,020, the Gaza Health Ministry said in an update on Monday.
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