Last night, Israeli armored vehicles crossed the Gaza Valley and entered the southern part of the Strip, settling on the Khan Younis-Deir al-Ballah artery. Other armored vehicles were also positioned on the Deir el-Ballah coast. Local sources reported that clashes broke out between the army and Hamas militias in the nearby Karara region last night. While the air force continues to bomb, military spokesman Avichay Adraee ordered the evacuation of Khan Younis center after some neighborhoods were cleared yesterday. The orders are to reach the city of Rafah.
Meanwhile, Israel has agreed to establish large safe zones in southern Gaza: it confirmed this to the US broadcaster NBC a senior State Department official. According to the newspaper, the agreement came during Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s fourth visit to Israel and third visit to the region after the October 7 attack. The goal of the head of American diplomacy is to reduce civilian suffering in southern Gaza during the expansion of military operations: the Israeli government is ready and is already working to create a plan, according to NBC. The security areas will be very large, but the details have not yet been determined.
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Towers of Hamad Town in Khan Younis after Israeli bombing in video
The ceasefire now makes Israel’s war against Hamas a thing of the past. While international diplomats are making efforts to condemn the incessant slaughter of civilians in Gaza, hospitals in the Palestinian territory are now full of injured people who cannot be treated. The conflict between Israel and Hamas, which restarted yesterday, continues bloodily with Israel’s bombings and sirens being heard in the Gaza Strip, which have killed hundreds of people in the last two days, while Hamas is firing rockets at Israel’s main cities, starting from Tel Aviv. speaking out in communities near the border.
The victims are hard to count: according to a Hamas spokesman speaking to Al Jazeera TV, some 700 Palestinians have been killed in the last 24 hours (yesterday Hamas reported a total of over 15,200 deaths since the start of the war). The number of people displaced by conflict is one and a half million. Another 600 foreign passport holders are expected to leave the Strip today, mainly Germans, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks and Filipinos.
Meanwhile, the British Air Force announced that it would send unarmed reconnaissance planes to locate approximately 140 hostages, some of whom have British passports, who are still being held captive in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army said it had detected 800 underground tunnels in Gaza since the war began on October 7 and destroyed 500 of them.
Source: Today IT
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