Politics Israel expands military operation in northern Gaza

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7.11.2024 - 12:26

ARCHIVE - People survey damage and retrieve items from their homes in the rubble on the street after Israeli airstrikes. Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
ARCHIVE - People survey damage and retrieve items from their homes in the rubble on the street after Israeli airstrikes. Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
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The Israeli army has expanded its operations in the north of the Gaza Strip. The troops have begun a new operation "against terror infrastructure in the Beit Lahia area", the Israeli army announced.

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At the same time, the military is still active in the Jabaliya refugee district. There, "around 50 terrorists were eliminated" within 24 hours.

There have been repeated reports from the Palestinian side of numerous civilian casualties in the north of the Gaza Strip. The conditions in the largely destroyed area are described as catastrophic. The Israeli army had called on civilians to leave the combat zone. According to residents, however, thousands of civilians are still in the area because they do not consider other parts of the Gaza Strip to be safer and fear the dangerous escape through the combat zone.

In the fight against the Islamist terrorist organization Hamas in the coastal strip, the army is repeatedly returning to areas that it had already abandoned.