The Israeli military announced today that it is carrying out “significant attacks” that will “continue in the coming days” in the Gaza Strip, adding that it has divided that Palestinian territory in two.
“Significant attacks are ongoing (…) and will continue tonight and in the coming days,” said Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari, claiming that Israeli forces operating in the area “have cut it in two: South Gaza and North Gaza. .”
Shortly before, the Hamas government had reported “intense shelling” around several hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, where internet and telephone lines had been cut.
The bombings mainly took place near al-Shifa hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, the same source said.
After thirty days of war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic movement, the siege of the northern part of the territory and the separation of the southern Gaza Strip is an important step in the operation carried out by Israeli forces, Hagari stressed.
“We are still allowing the passage of civilians from northern Gaza and Gaza City to the south,” he added, while 300,000 to 400,000 people are still in the north of this cramped area of 2, 4 million inhabitants, where the humanitarian situation is considered catastrophic.
Since mid-October, Israel has ordered civilians to evacuate the north of the area, where the fighting is heaviest, to the south. Today, the Israeli army again released messages to that effect in the skies over Gaza.
The war was sparked by attacks on Israel by the Islamist movement Hamas, which killed about 1,400 people on Israeli territory and kidnapped more than 200 on October 7.
In retaliation, Israel has attacked the Gaza Strip daily from the air and on land, causing more than 9,700 deaths in the Hamas-controlled area, according to the Health Ministry.
Source: DN
