Israeli tanks retreated into parts of the northern Gaza Strip from which they had withdrawn weeks ago, while fighter jets bombed Rafah, where more than 1 million displaced Palestinians have taken refuge in the southern part of the territory, killing several people. were killed or injured. people.
Residents reported internet outages in the Beit Hanoun and Jabalia areas of northern Gaza on Tuesday.
According to residents, tanks moved into Beit Hanoun and surrounded several schools housing displaced families.
“The occupation forces ordered the evacuation of all families in the school and in the houses in the neighborhood where the tanks were advancing. The soldiers detained many men,” a resident of northern Gaza told Reuters via a chat app.
Beit Hanun, home to 60,000 people, was one of the first areas targeted by Israel in a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip last October. Heavy shelling has reduced much of Beit Hanoun, once known as the Fruit Basket because of its orchards, to a ghost town of piles of rubble.
Some residents said many families who had returned to Beit Hanoun and Jabalia in recent weeks after Israeli forces withdrew began moving again on Tuesday because of the new attacks.
Palestinian health officials said Israel killed four people and wounded several others in a single attack in Rafah. More than half of the Gaza Strip's 2.3 million people have evacuated in Rafah, preparing for a planned Israeli ground attack on the city, which borders Egypt.
After six months of fighting, US-led talks led by Qatar and Egypt to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip continue to show no progress, with Israel and Hamas clinging to mutually irreconcilable terms. I don't see any signs.