Israeli safety chief believes combating in Gaza will proceed all through 2024 – a minimum of

Based on residents, tanks have moved into Tel al-Sultan within the west of Rafah, in addition to in Yibna close to Shaboura within the heart earlier than retreating to a buffer zone alongside the border with Egypt.

Tzachi Hanegbi, nationwide safety adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, says that Israel controls three-quarters of the zone, and that the purpose is to manage all of it to stop Hamas from smuggling weapons from Egypt.

He additionally says that he believes the combating within the Gaza Strip will proceed all through 2024, a sign that Israel isn’t ready to barter a ceasefire and hostage settlement with Hamas.

Based on the Israeli army, three Israeli troopers have been killed and three others severely injured in combating within the south of the Gaza Strip.

Robotic-controlled tanks

Palestinian well being authorities say that a number of folks have been wounded by Israeli firing east of Rafah, and that warehouses with emergency help have been set on hearth.

Based on residents, many houses have been leveled within the Israeli assaults throughout the night time. The homes are positioned in areas which were largely deserted on account of Israel’s evacuation order.

Some eyewitnesses have additionally reported that they’ve seen unmanned and robot-controlled tanks open hearth with machine weapons in some elements of town.

Web and cell alerts disappeared on Wednesday in each the east and west of town on account of heavy Israeli assaults from the bottom and the air, a number of totally different sources, together with journalists, report. Israel says it can’t affirm the stories.

– Destroys residential areas within the north

Additional north on the Gaza Strip, a number of areas of Gaza Metropolis have been shelled from tanks. similtaneously troopers transfer additional and additional into Jabalia.

Jabalia is the most important of Gaza’s eight historic refugee camps, created after lots of of hundreds of Palestinians fled when the state of Israel was established in 1948.

Residents say that enormous residential areas have been destroyed within the assaults.

Based on the Gaza Ministry of Well being, a number of hospitals within the areas the place the Israeli military operates have ceased to perform, and a spokesman is looking for the instant institution of protected transport routes for gasoline, medical help and personnel each to Rafah and the northern a part of Gaza.