Israel uses "seismic bombs" to destroy Gaza tunnels
Israel uses "seismic bombs" to destroy Gaza tunnels
The Israeli army announces that it attacked 400 targets in Gaza in the past 24 hours
In the latest developments, Israeli Channel 12 reported that the army used “seismic bombs” in Gaza to destroy tunnels.
As the Israeli army prepared for the ground invasion of Gaza, Ghazi Hamad, a member of the Hamas political bureau in Gaza, told Lebanese television: “We have 35,000 fighters in the Gaza Strip and we are ready.” He continued by saying: "We know that if we want to fight the American and European-backed Israeli army, we must be highly prepared, and we are. We have succeeded in developing ourselves, our capabilities, and our capabilities under almost impossible circumstances." This is while the Al-Quds Brigades said that it shot down an Israeli drone in Jenin this morning.
Israeli raids and deaths in Gaza
At the same time, the Israeli army announced today that it attacked 400 targets that it described as “military” in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.
He added in a statement that he killed a number of Hamas leaders. This comes as the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that large numbers of people were killed and wounded in an Israeli air strike on the Beach camp in Gaza, while the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that 140 people were killed as a result of the Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip last night.
Before that, the Palestinian media reported renewed Israeli bombing on Jabalia and the Al-Qarara area in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip in the early hours of the morning. Al-Arabiya and Al-Hadath correspondent reported that Israeli raids hit a gas station in the vicinity of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Targeting homes and a gas station
The sector witnessed a new bloody night from north to south as a result of the continuous raids. At the same time, media outlets reported violent and continuous artillery shelling in areas near the border in the northern Gaza Strip.
The agency added that 23 people were killed, including children, and more than 45 were injured with various serious injuries and were taken to Nasser Hospital as a result of the Israeli raids that targeted many citizens’ homes and a gas station in the center and east of Khan Yunis.
She indicated that rescue operations are still underway.
It said that more than 30 people were killed and dozens injured in a similar Israeli bombing that targeted many inhabited citizen homes in Rafah Governorate.
Meanwhile, a US State Department spokesman said on Tuesday that any truce in the Gaza Strip would give Hamas a “break” to resume attacks on Israel.
A ministry statement quoted spokesman Matthew Miller as saying in a press briefing, “What we will continue to do is focus on getting aid into Gaza,” noting that any ceasefire in the escalation that began on October 7 will mean “Israel’s continued suffering.”
He also added, "We saw shipments (of aid) entering intensively to establish regular mechanisms for delivering humanitarian aid, and we are working to establish places where civilians can feel safe inside Gaza."
A crime against humanity
In a related context, Hamas said that the power outage to the Indonesian Hospital, which is the first hospital to announce that it has stopped working in the besieged Strip, is a “crime against humanity.”
She added in a statement, "We call on our Arab and Islamic countries and the United Nations to take urgent and immediate action to provide fuel supplies to operate electrical generators for hospitals, and we warn against the consequences of negligence in providing fuel, which means a death sentence for all the sick and wounded in hospitals."
Palestine TV said on Tuesday that the number of deaths in the Gaza Strip since the start of the current war with Israel had risen to 5,300. The television indicated that the number of injured had reached 18,000.
Hamas - whose fighters attacked Israeli cities and towns on October 7, killing 1,400 people and capturing more than 200 - announced that it had released two women, both of whom were over eighty years old, for “humanitarian reasons.” The International Red Cross said that it transferred Nurit Yitzhak and Yochved Lifshitz from the Nir Oz settlement through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt. A Hamas spokesman said, "We decided to release them for compelling humanitarian and medical reasons."
