The Israeli troops moved to an area of the North Gaza Strip and took control of more areas around the edge of the enclave, the military announced on Friday, days after the government’s announcement, the plans to confiscate large areas with an operation in the south.
Soldiers who conducted the operation in Shuja’iyya, a suburb of Gaza City in the north, let civilians out of organized routes when the troops input to expand the area defined by Israel as a “security zone” in Gaza, according to a statement.
Images on social media showed an Israeli tank on the Al Muntar Hill in Shuja’iyya in a position that brought a clear sight of the coast across the city of Gaza and beyond. On the east side of the Gaza Strip it was without interruption, a local health officer in an SMS.
When the Israeli forces entered, hundreds of residents had left the day earlier, who wore belongings or invited them to vans or donkey carts after the military issued the latest in a series of evacuation warnings, which now cover around a third of the Gaza strip.
Israel took his operation in Gaza again on March 18 with a heavy series of air raids and sent after a two -month break, in which 38 hostages were returned for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners and prisoners.
The efforts to restart negotiations by Egypt and Qatar have stalled. “There are currently no contacts,” said a Palestinian official near the mediation efforts to Reuters.
According to the Humanitarian agency Ocha of the United Nations, more than 280,000 people have been sold in Gaza in the past two weeks, which complemented the misery of families who have been sold several times in the past 18 months.
“I swear to God that I stay on the street, there is no protection here,” said 40-year-old Hemam Al-Rifi, who said that members of his family were killed when the school complex of the Gaza city, in which they protected themselves, was hit by a fatal strike on Thursday.
“My house was destroyed at first and I stayed in a tent in a school, not in a classroom, and now I don’t know where to go.”
In the city of Gaza, the locals said that Israeli strikes had hit a water retirees east of the district of Tuffah, which was of crucial importance for the provision of clean drinking water. Aids have been cut off for weeks.
65% of the Gaza Strip in the context of “no -go” bids, active shift orders
On the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, Israeli troops have consolidated in the ruins of the city of Rafah, and Ocha says that 65 percent of the enclave is now in “no -go” bidden under active shift regulations or both.
Israel has not fully explained its long-term goal for the areas, which is now confiscated as a security zone, and expanded an existing buffer area along the edge of the enclave hundreds of meters in the Gaza strip.
The residents of Gaza Strip believe that the goal is to discharge the country swaths permanently, including some of the last arable land and water infrastructures of Gaza.
Officials say that the operations agree with the plans of the US President Donald Trump, who said in February that he wanted to bring the Gaza -Strip population to neighboring countries and transform the enclave into a bank under US control.
Israel says it would encourage Palestinians who want to go voluntarily.
On Friday, the Gaza health authorities said that at least 35 Palestinians were killed, most of the Gaza southern areas. Among the deaths were 19 members of a family who were killed when a strike cut off the three -story building in which they lived.
The Israeli military said that his armed forces had killed Mohammed Awad, a high -ranking commander in the militant group of Palestinian Mujaheddin, who said that he was involved in the kidnapping of hostages, including the Bibas family during the attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and was most likely involved in her killing.
Israel accuses Hamas of hiding fighter in civilian buildings and says that it is reminiscent of precautionary measures to limit losses, but according to the local health authorities, hundreds of Palestinians have been killed since the operation was resumed. More than 250 of the dead were armed militants, says the Israeli military, although it has not presented any evidence.
Israel drives strikes on Lebanon, Syria again
The ministers said that the operation would continue, up to 59 hostages in Gaza. Hamas says that it will only free her under a deal that brings the war a permanent end.
On Friday, a spokesman for the group’s armed wing said that half of the hostages were held in areas where people should evacuate.
“If the enemy is concerned about the life of these hostages, he must immediately negotiate his evacuation or release,” said Hamas spokeswoman Abo Ubaida in a message about telegram.
As an armistice agreement in which the fights collapsed in January, the risk of a broader return to war has increased, and Israel has fitting goals in both Lebanon and Syria in recent days. On Friday it says that an air raid in the Lebanese city of Sidon killed a senior Hamas operator.
Israeli troops were also involved in a longer operation in occupied West Bank, where two Palestinians were killed on Friday.
The war started with the attack on Israeli communities led by Hamas on October 7, 2023, what killed 1,200 people and, according to Israeli days, conquered more than 250 hostages. Since then, Israel has reduced a large part of the Gaza Strip on ruins and killed more than 50,000 Palestinians, according to the enclave health authorities.
