The Israeli army announced this Sunday that it is carrying out “significant attacks” that “will continue in the coming days” in the Gaza Strip, adding that cut that Palestinian territory in two.
“Major attacks are taking place (…) that will continue tonight and in the coming days,” said Israel Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari, stating that Israeli forces operating in the territory “have cut it off.” into two: southern Gaza and northern Gaza.” “.
Shortly before, the Hamas Government had reported “intense bombing” around several hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, where Telephone and Internet lines were cut.
The bombings occurred mainly near the Al Shifa hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, according to the same source.
After 30 days of war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic movement, the siege of the northern part of the territory and its separation from the southern part of the Gaza Strip It is an important step in the operation carried out by Israeli forces, Hagari noted.
“We still allow the passage of civilians from the north of Gaza and from Gaza City to the south,” he added, while between 300,000 and 400,000 people still remain in the north of this narrow territory of 2.4 million inhabitants where the situation humanitarian is considered catastrophic.
Since mid-October Israel orders civilians to evacuate northern territory, where the fighting is most intense, to the south. This Sunday, the Israeli army once again launched messages to this effect in the sky over Gaza.
The war was unleashed after attacks against Israel by the Islamist movement Hamas, which on October 7 killed some 1,400 people in Israeli territory and kidnapped more than two hundred.
In retaliation, Israel has been attacking the Gaza Strip daily from the air and on the ground.which has already caused, according to the Ministry of Health of the territory controlled by Hamas, more than 9,700 dead.
Source: TSF
