JERUSALEM: Israeli airstrikes on the al-Bureij refugee camp and the town of Jabalia in central and northern Gaza killed at least 17 Palestinians on the first day of the New Year, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment, although in a post on
He also said overnight that he killed Abd al-Hadi Sabah, a Hamas fighter.
The order to evacuate al-Bureij camp has sparked a new wave of displacement, although it was not immediately clear how many people were affected.
WAFA He said the army blew up residential blocks in Beit Lahiya and in and around Jabalia, while tanks shelled parts of Gaza City and the al-Bureij camp.
Palestinian and United Nations officials say that nowhere is safe in Gaza and that the evacuations worsen humanitarian conditions for the population.
According to the Palestinian civil defense, more than 1,500 tents housing displaced people across Gaza were flooded by heavy rains over the past two days, leaving people exposed to the cold and their belongings damaged.
Hundreds more shops suffered less severe flooding that still left displaced people unable to use them.
Much of the area around the northern towns of Beit Hanoun, Jabalia and Beit Lahiya has been cleared of people and razed, fueling speculation that Israel intends to keep the area as a closed buffer zone after the fighting in Syria ends. Loop.
Israel’s campaign in Gaza has killed more than 45,500 Palestinians, according to health officials in the Hamas-run enclave. Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced and much of the small coastal strip is in ruins.
Israel warned Wednesday that it will intensify its attacks on Gaza if Hamas continues firing rockets. Over the past week, Palestinian fighters have repeatedly fired rockets into Israel, particularly from northern Gaza, where the Israeli military is carrying out a major offensive.
The rockets have caused little damage and have been fired in much smaller numbers than in the early stages of the war, but they have been a political blow to the Israeli government after nearly 15 months of fighting.
Defense Minister Israel Katz said he wanted to send a clear message to the leaders of the fighters in Gaza that if Hamas does not soon allow the release of Israeli prisoners from Gaza and continues firing on Israeli communities, it will face severe blows. . It had been a long time since he had seen each other in Gaza.
Published in Amanecer, January 2, 2025.
