O The high number of deaths and injuries caused by this new Israeli offensive against the southern city of Khan Younis is pushing the Naser hospital, the most important and only one still operational in this area, to the brink of collapse, reported the Efe agency.
Some of the main fighting is taking place in the Bani Suheila area, one of the neighborhoods that Israel ordered evacuated in the early hours of Monday, and where several residents, sick and injured people are still being held, according to authorities in Gaza, a territory controlled by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas.
Military vehicles also opened fire on houses in this neighborhood of the city of Khan Younis, according to the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
The Israeli Army, in turn, assured today that in Bani Suheila “the troops identified a terrorist cell approaching in a vehicle, and in a combined air and ground attack” all the people inside were eliminated.
Israeli forces abandoned this important southern region of the enclave, considered one of the main strongholds of the Islamist group Hamas, in April after four months of a tough offensive, considering that they had managed to achieve all their “military objectives” in this part of the Palestinian territory.
At the time, Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi even said that Hamas’ military wing had been deterred after losing most of its military capabilities.
Now, however, Israel claims that the Islamist group is launching numerous rockets from the area, where it also suspects that the Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, the main person responsible for the October 7 attack that triggered the war, is hiding in one of the tunnels.
Defending this thesis, Israel on Monday ordered the evacuation of the eastern part of the city, which in the last two months has become a refuge for tens of thousands of people who fled Rafah with the start of the Israeli invasion on May 6.
The decision led to the forced displacement of around 150,000 Palestinians to the Mawasi humanitarian zone, whose perimeter is increasingly reduced.
In Rafah, a border city with Egypt, hand-to-hand fighting and troop incursions also continue, more than two months after the start of the invasion of this area of the enclave, now centered on the neighborhoods of Talal Sultan and Shabura.
“Troops located a tunnel, a large quantity of weapons and night vision equipment inside a children’s room in a civilian building in the area,” Israeli forces said in a statement today.
Likewise, the Army reported that in the last 48 hours two soldiers were seriously injured during fighting in the city of Rafah.
The ongoing war between Israel and Hamas was triggered by an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Islamist group on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023, which caused around 1,200 deaths and more than two hundred hostages, according to Israeli authorities.
Following the Hamas attack, Israel launched a large-scale offensive in the Gaza Strip, which has already caused more than 39,000 deaths, mostly civilians, and nearly 90,000 injuries, as well as a humanitarian disaster, destabilizing the entire Middle East region.
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Source: https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/mundo/2604214/mais-de-120-mortos-na-ofensiva-israelita-em-khan-younis
