Cairo: Israeli forces on Wednesday issued new evacuation orders to Palestinians in areas north of Gaza that were hit when the war with Hamas began in October, after a new barrage of rockets was fired into Israel.
Army spokesman Avichai Adraei issued an order to evacuate several areas in Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya, two towns that are now largely destroyed and were attacked by Israeli tanks at the start of Israel's ground offensive.
Hamas and terrorist organizations are firing rockets from your area towards the country of Israel. Adraei said in a message sent to Palestinian residents through SMS and social networks: The Israeli army will act against them with force and immediately.
The army spokesman said: “For your safety, evacuate immediately to known shelters in the center of Gaza City.”
In a neighborhood near Gaza City, al-Tufah, an Israeli airstrike on a house killed three Palestinians, according to doctors.
Late Wednesday, 10 Palestinians were killed in two separate Israeli attacks on Khan Yunis in southern Gaza. Doctors said three people were killed on a motorcycle in an attack west of Khan Yunis, while seven others were killed in tank shelling that hit a tent in the town of Abbasan, east of the city.
Multiple fronts
The war in the Gaza Strip continues, even as Israel prepares for an expected attack by Iran and its close Lebanese ally Hezbollah after the July 31 assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
Israel's military says it has killed dozens of Gazan militants in recent days and said on Wednesday that forces had struck a weapons facility in the densely populated Deir al-Balah district in central Gaza, where tens of thousands of Palestinians have been displaced by the fighting. refuge
In other central areas, Israeli tanks shelled Nusirat and Burij, two of the eight historic refugee camps in the Gaza Strip. Israel says Hamas militants use civilian infrastructure to cover and hide operational posts and weapons caches. Hamas denies this.
The militants say they continue to ambush Israeli soldiers and armored vehicles with explosive devices and can still fire limited rockets into Israel.
On Tuesday, Islamic Jihad, a close ally of Hamas, said it had fired rockets into Israel in response to what Israel called a “massacre of civilians.”
The Israeli military said that last week Hamas fired rockets from launchers placed near two depots of international humanitarian aid, including the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA. In the continuation of this statement, it is stated that Israeli forces attacked these sites.
Hamas-led militias began the Gaza war on October 7 with cross-border attacks on Israeli communities, killing 1,200 Israelis and foreigners and taking about 250 hostages, according to Israeli figures.
Israel has killed more than 39,600 Palestinians and wounded more than 91,500 in response to its relentless assault on Gaza, which has reduced much of the heavily populated coastal strip to rubble, according to Gaza's health ministry.
The Hamas-led ministry does not differentiate between fighters and civilians in its death lists.
