Israel intensifies attacks on Jabalya, advances on Rafah
Israel is forcefully attacking Jabalya, the city in the northern Gaza Strip where troops have resumed their offensive activity against Hamas; and continues with artillery fire on the central and eastern neighborhoods of Rafah, at the southern end of the enclave, which Israel ordered evacuated two days ago. Air raids and artillery are attacking homes both in Jabalya refugee camp and in the city, where ambulance services have pulled out at least twenty bodies and treated dozens of wounded.
«The occupation forces they attacked the ambulances in Jabalya camp”, denounced the director of emergency services in northern Gaza. The official Palestinian agency Wafa, citing testimonies from residents, indicated that Israeli forces “surrounded and attacked” the reception centers, forcing hundreds of people to move to the western part of the city. «The occupation forces are now trying to besiege and break into the six reception centers located to the east of the camp.
There are drone and sniper shooting: they force the displaced to leave but they don’t know where to go,” explained a resident reached by telephone but who did not want to give his name for security reasons. The same source also reported strong armed clashes between Palestinian militias and Israeli troops inside the camp, which is why the Israeli army had to ask for reinforcements. «Israeli forces are trying to advance towards the center of the field and shoot everything that moves around them, while the military flies intensely over the area at low altitude.”
After ordering the evacuation of two large neighborhoods of Jabalya on Saturday, the Israeli army resumed its military offensive on the city on Sunday, which had also been one of the first places it had attacked harshly in October, when the war began. As happened in Zeitoun, the neighborhood of Gaza City, the Israeli forces had to resume military activity in those points of the northern Gaza Strip where the Hamas militias have returned and are reorganizing.
The Israeli army also continues its operation in Rafahthe city at the southern end of the enclave which hosted 1.4 million displaced people: since yesterday it continues with aerial and artillery bombardments in the new areas he had ordered to evacuate on Saturday, in the eastern and central parts of the city. In the last hours they are At least eight people died in the area, including a minor (the lifeless bodies arrived at the Kuwaiti hospital in the Rafah governorate). Fear and confusion reign throughout the area: residents are also leaving their shelters from neighborhoods in the western half of the city where Israel has not yet ordered evacuation. Today Israel ordered the displacement of the civilian population from two new areas of central Rafah.
