CAIRO: The Israeli army on Wednesday issued a new evacuation order for Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip, which was among the first affected by the start of the war with Hamas in October. , after militants fired new rockets at Israel.
Army spokesman Avichay Adraee issued the evacuation order for several districts of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya, two largely destroyed towns that Israeli tanks entered at the start of the invasion. – village made by Israel.
“Hamas and terrorist organizations are firing rockets from your neighborhood into the State of Israel. The IDF will act forcefully and immediately against them,” Adraee said in a text message and social media message to the Palestinian population.
“For your own safety, evacuate immediately to known shelters in central Gaza City,” the army spokesman said.
In the nearby town of Gaza, Al-Tuffah, an Israeli airstrike on a house killed three Palestinians, a medic said.
Later on Wednesday, 10 Palestinians were killed in two separate Israeli strikes in Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Medics said a strike killed three people on a motorcycle west of Khan Younis, while seven others were killed in shelling that hit a camp in the town of Abassan, east of the city. .
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Fighting in the Gaza Strip continued even as Hezbollah prepared for an expected offensive in northern Iran and its close Lebanese ally Hezbollah after the killing of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh there. Tehran, the capital of Iran, on July 31.
The Israeli military said it had killed dozens of militants in Gaza in recent days and on Wednesday it said it struck a weapons factory in the central Deir Al-Balah district. Gaza, where tens of thousands of Palestinians have been displaced by the war. refuge.
Elsewhere, Israeli tanks bombed Nuseirat and Bureij, two of Gaza's eight historic refugee camps. Israel claims that Hamas militants use civilian infrastructure to hide and hide their operational and weapons storage facilities; Hamas denies this.
Activists say they continue to attack Israeli soldiers and tanks with explosive devices, and are still able to launch a limited barrage of rockets into Israel.
On Tuesday, Islamic Jihad, a close ally of Hamas, said it fired rockets into Israel in response to what it called an Israeli “massacre of civilians.”
The Israeli military said that last week Hamas fired rockets from embedded launchers near two international aid and distribution warehouses, including the UNRWA Palestinian refugee agency. The Israeli army attacked these places, he added.
Hamas-led militants began fighting in Gaza on October 7 with a cross-border rush into Israeli communities, killing 1,200 Israelis and foreigners and taking about 250 hostages, according to the Israeli census.
In response, Israel has launched a series of attacks on Gaza that have devastated much of the populated coastal strip, killing more than 39,600 Palestinians and injuring more than 91,500, according to ministry figures. health in Gaza.
The Hamas-led ministry does not distinguish between fighters and civilians in its death list.
