Israel pounds Gaza City suburbs, vows to press on with offensive
By Nidal al-Mghrabi and Lili Bayer
Cairo/Jerusalem (Reuters) -Israeli planes and tanks beat the eastern and northern skirts of the Gaza City between Saturday and Sunday, and the residents, Israeli leaders promised to prosecute with an attack in the city.
Witnesses, Zeitouun and Shejaia in the fields of the explosions in the fields of the strictly reported the sound of the explosions, the tanks near the nearby Sabra neighborhood houses and roads, and a few buildings exploded in the northern town of Jabalia.
The Israeli army said on Sunday, that their forces have recently returned to war in the Jabalia region, and returned to eliminate militant tunnels and strengthen the control of the region.
He added that the operation there “enables the war to be expanded to additional areas and prevented Hamas terrorists from returning to operating in these areas”.
Israel approved a plan this month to seize Gaza City’s control and described it as the last castle of Hamas. It is not expected to start for several weeks, and mediation began to try to try cease -fire talks between the parties to Egypt and Qatar.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz promised to pressure the alarm and at home on Sunday. On Friday, Katz said that Gaza City will be torn unless Hamas agreed to end the war against Israel’s conditions and release all the hostages it still possesses.
The fire burned the sky in the direction of the explosions, caused panic, caused some families to flow out of the city. Others said they would prefer to die and not to go.
‘We are not separated’
About half of the two million people of Enclave are currently living in Gaza City. He left a few thousand people, carrying his belongings to vehicles and checks.
“I stopped counting the times when I had to leave my wife and three daughters in Gaza City,” Reuters said through a chat application.
Others say they won’t leave, no matter what.
The 31 -year -old family, a family of eight people, added that even if they try to leave, they would not be able to buy a tent or pay for transportation. “We’re hungry, we’re afraid and we don’t have money,” he said.
A global hunger monitor said on Friday that Gaza City and its surrounding areas suffer from famine to officially spread. Israel refused to evaluate and said that he has ignored the steps he has taken since the end of July to increase the supply of assistance to Gaza and across.
On Saturday, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Health, said that eight people died of malnutrition and starvation in the settlement area and died of 281 people, including 114 children since the war began. Israel, Hamas run by the Ministry of Health in the lane of the Ministry of Health is objected to the death figures.
The war began on October 7, 2023, when the armed men led by Hamas exploded to Southern Israel, killed 1,200 people, especially civilians and took 251 hostages.
According to the Gaza Ministry of Health since then, Israel’s military attack against Hamas, mostly civilians killed at least 62,000 Palestinians, left most of the region in ruins, and almost entire population.
(Nidal al-Mughrabi in Cairo, Lili Bayer in Jerusalem and Maayan Lubell, William Maclean reports)
