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Tel Aviv: The war between Israel and Hamas (Hamas) has been going on for 27 consecutive days and now it is likely to get worse. Because the Israeli army has announced that it has surrounded Hamas from all sides in Gaza. Along with aerial strikes, the army has also started ground attacks. During this period, so far 9,061 Palestinian civilians have died in Israeli army attacks. At the same time, around 1400 people have lost their lives in Israel. While more than 10 thousand people are injured and lakhs of people have been displaced. At the same time, the Israeli army has intensified ground attacks along with aerial strikes to eliminate Hamas fighters. However, amidst all this, the common people of Palestine are suffering huge consequences.
The Palestinian Health Ministry says 16 out of 35 hospitals in Gaza are out of service. Meanwhile, fighting on the Israel-Lebanon border has intensified amid the much-awaited speech of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. A Palestinian border official has said that a new group of dual nationals have crossed into Egypt from Gaza through the Rafah crossing. The Palestine Red Crescent Society says that 102 trucks with humanitarian aid entered the crossing last Thursday. Read 10 big updates…
Israeli officials have said that they have completely surrounded Gaza city. They say that this is the main stronghold of Hamas. The military is also saying that they are looking for weapons, military posts and any other type of Hamas infrastructure that they want to destroy.
The Israeli security cabinet’s statement came as Palestinian families and rights groups sought information about the whereabouts of thousands of Gazans who were working in Israel when the war began but have since gone missing. “Gaza workers who were in Israel on the day the war started will be returned to Gaza,” the cabinet said, without providing any information on the identities of the workers or how many would be returned.
Two security sources said that the armed drone was shot down at the base where American personnel live. Sources said it was not clear whether the incident caused any damage or casualties. Yesterday, the Pentagon said that bases housing US personnel in Iraq and Syria have been hit 27 times since October 17.
The Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) was asked about fuel supplies to Gaza during a television program on Thursday. “We haven’t even brought fuel here,” Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi said. For more than a week now, they have been telling us that ‘tomorrow the hospitals will run out of fuel.’ It is not over yet.
According to Al Jazeera report, Hezbollah has said that it has used two drones packed with explosives to attack the Israeli army command post in the disputed Shebaa Farms. In a statement, the Lebanese group said the drones were loaded with “large amounts of explosives” and had attacked their targets.
At least 29 people were killed and dozens of others injured in the Israeli bombardment of the Jabaliya refugee camp, the third in the past few days. A correspondent for the Palestinian WAFA news agency said Israeli forces fired missiles at a school in the camp, killing 27 and injuring several others. He said two other people were killed in an Israeli attack on a car in the camp.
This is the second Israeli attack on a school on Thursday. Earlier, Israeli forces bombed a UNRWA-run school in the al-Shati refugee camp in western Gaza city, where thousands of displaced people have taken refuge. Five people died in the Israeli attack.
On Thursday, 256 civilians were killed in Israeli air strikes. Al-Shifa Hospital received 2,600 reports of missing people. 135 medical workers were killed, 25 ambulances were destroyed. 16 hospitals in Gaza are out of service, and 32 medical care facilities are out of operation. Gaza’s only cancer hospital has also closed.
More than 3,600 Palestinian children have been killed in the 25-day fighting. Hundreds of thousands of people have become homeless due to the bombing. At the same time, people are facing severe shortage of food, water and fuel.
The military wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas says it fired 12 rockets from Lebanon toward the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona. The Qassam Brigades said in a statement that Thursday’s rocket attack was in retaliation for “the occupation’s massacre against our people in Gaza.”
