New Delhi:
Israeli troops are nonetheless within the northern Gaza Strip, hours after the nation launched an intense evening of assaults towards Hamas which included each air and artillery strikes.
Listed here are 10 details on the massive story:
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Israel has been constructing as much as a floor invasion since Hamas operatives crossed the border on October 7 and killed 1,400 folks, and took greater than 220 hostages.
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The Israeli army believes the Hamas management and its major infrastructure are concentrated within the north, which is the place the nation has now launched relentless strikes, days after it requested civilians to depart north Gaza and transfer to the South.
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Gaza witnessed intense raids final evening with the Israeli military claiming a high Hamas commander and several other operatives being killed in air assaults. Israel stated that that they had hit 150 “underground targets” of the Hamas.
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Israel Defence spokesperson Daniel Hagari stated that the troops had been “nonetheless within the subject” and claimed that they had been preventing a weaker enemy.
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He additionally stated that support vehicles, carrying meals and water, shall be allowed into Gaza right this moment. Not solely has the area been hit by the Israeli strikes, they’re additionally going through extreme shortages of meals, gas, and medicines.
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Web and telephone companies had been additionally reduce off amid the in a single day strikes on Friday. Human Rights Watch, an NGO, has expressed concern {that a} communication blackout dangers offering cowl for mass atrocities.
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A thick haze of smoke coated Gaza and southern Israel after the evening of heavy bombardment, in response to journalists overlaying the conflict.
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A BBC journalist described “whole chaos” throughout the evening of strikes and in its aftermath. “There was an enormous bombardment within the north of Gaza Strip on a scale we have by no means seen earlier than. On the hospital right here, ambulance drivers instructed me they could not talk with anybody, in order that they had been simply driving within the route of the explosions,” wrote Rushdi Abualouf.
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Hamas has stated that its operatives are able to confront Israeli assaults with “full power” in Gaza. The Palestinian militant group that guidelines Gaza had stated its operatives had been clashing with Israeli troops in areas close to the border with Israel.
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Israel has accused the Hamas group of utilizing Gaza’s greatest hospital as its headquarters and abusing different hospitals for army functions, a cost that the group has denied.
