2024-01-19 06:45:31
Fighting returns to northern Gaza following Hamas attempts to rehabilitate its brigades
Violent fighting continued in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, and was renewed in areas in the north. Israel said: “Hamas” tried to reorganize its ranks there, and the Israeli army escalated its widespread attack on areas in the West Bank.
Clashes raged in Khan Yunis, which the Israeli army has been trying to control for weeks, in a mission that appears to be the most difficult since the start of fighting in the Gaza Strip. The army announced that it had taken control of important sites, while the “Al-Qassam Brigades” announced that it had killed and wounded dozens of soldiers there.
Israeli tanks advanced on sites in the city of Khan Yunis following heavy bombardment, and an army spokesman said that in Khan Yunis on Thursday, his forces took control of the Hamas “Martyrs Brigade” site, and the soldiers were able to kill dozens of fighters in the place and found the offices of the battalion commanders. It contained a large quantity of weapons, equipment, and ammunition, in addition to RPG launchers, explosive devices, and intelligence documents regarding the management of the war. This is the southernmost point that the Israeli forces have reached in Khan Yunis.
In return, the Al-Qassam Brigades confirmed that they killed many soldiers in Khan Yunis and destroyed tanks and vehicles.
Al-Qassam said that its members blew up a house and targeted a foot Zionist force of 30 soldiers in Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis.
Destroyed buildings in northern Gaza, which was subjected to heavy Israeli bombing in the first weeks of the war (AFP)
Return to the north
The Phalange confirmed that it left the soldiers dead and wounded. As the fierce fighting continued in Khan Yunis, the fighting was renewed more fiercely in several areas in the northern Gaza Strip, which the Israeli army had announced that it had taken control of, then withdrew from, and returned to once more.
Israeli security officials said: “Hamas” has begun rehabilitating its brigades in the northern Gaza Strip and appointing new leaders to replace those who were assassinated. According to Haaretz newspaper, citing Israeli security sources, Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip has begun the process of rebuilding its brigades, including rehabilitating the fighting brigades and rebuilding the leadership structure.
This came following the Israeli army announced that it had dismantled the military structure of Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip, and then began reducing the reserve forces present there, then reducing the regular forces, including the Golani Brigade forces, armored vehicles, and special units, leaving the 162nd Division in an attempt to impose control. Security on the place.
Security control
In any case, Israel plans to maintain security control over Gaza following the war, a point of contention with the Americans.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said: The vision for the day following the war in Gaza “must be to continue controlling the Gaza Strip, encourage voluntary migration, and kill the leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar.”
As the ground fighting continued, Israel continued to bomb large areas in the Gaza Strip, killing more Palestinians, including journalist Wael Rajab Abu Fununa, general director of the Al-Quds Al-Youm satellite channel. The Government Information Office in Gaza said: “The number of journalist martyrs has risen to 119 since the start of the genocidal war on the Strip.”
According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, “the occupation committed 15 massacres that claimed the lives of 172 martyrs and 326 wounded during the past 24 hours; This brings the number of victims of the Israeli aggression on Gaza to 24,620 martyrs and 61,830 injured since October 7.”
A Palestinian sits amid the destruction left by an Israeli raid on a house in Rafah, southern Gaza (Archyde.com)
Heading towards Rafah
The continuation of the war in the central and southern regions of the Gaza Strip pushed more Gazans towards Rafah. This created increasing pressure and a tragic humanitarian situation. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA) announced that the population of Rafah has nearly doubled four times in the past weeks to reach more than 1.2 million people. Due to the displacement of people during the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip.
The agency said: “Overcrowding is stifling in the central regions, and people struggle to obtain food and medicine and feel cold.” The agency spoke in a post on the “X” website regarding the scarcity of information regarding the conditions in the northern Gaza Strip, and pointed to many restrictions that limit access to the region.
Israeli soldiers conduct a raid in the city of Tulkarm in the West Bank (EPA)
Escalation in the West Bank
The escalation in the West Bank was accompanied by the war in the Gaza Strip. Israel killed a Palestinian in the aggression that continued Thursday once morest the city of Tulkarm and its two camps for the second day in a row. Martyr Thabet Thabet Governmental Hospital announced, “The martyrdom of the young man, Muhammad Faisal Dawas Abu Awad (28 years old), following being hit by live occupation bullets in the abdomen, in Nour Shams camp, east of Tulkarm. “This raises the death toll in the city since Wednesday to 6.”
On Wednesday, Israel killed 10 Palestinians by bombing two youth marches in the Tulkarm camps in Tulkarm and Balata in Nablus. The Palestinian News Agency said: The attack, which continued on Tulkarem on Thursday, included “the bombing of a house, the burning of another, and the severe beating of a number of citizens, amid widespread destruction of the infrastructure.” The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights called for an end to the unlawful killing of Palestinians subjected to siege and intensified attacks by Israel.
The Commission stated, via the “X” platform, that reports indicate that Israeli forces are continuing their operations in the West Bank and killed at least 9 Palestinians on Wednesday. She stated that the two incidents, according to preliminary information, raise concerns regarding unlawful killings, stressing the need for Israel to ensure an urgent, independent and effective investigation in this regard. She continued, “The unlawful killing of Palestinians must stop.”
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