GAZA: Residents reported that Israeli forces advanced farther into the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, destroying residential areas with air and tank bombardments. Meanwhile, airstrikes in the southern city of Rafah claimed the lives of at least five individuals.
Residents of the Jabalia refugee camp reported that the Israeli army, in a military operation that started nearly two weeks ago, had cleared stores and property near the local market with bulldozers.
To stop Hamas from regrouping, Israel claimed to have returned to the camp where it had claimed to have destroyed the organization months earlier.
Numerous bodies were discovered in Jabalia, hidden from rescue teams by the wreckage of houses and on the roadways, according to health authorities and the Gaza Civil Emergency Service.
The US says that the Gaza War must stop before formal Israeli-Saudi relations can be established.
“The world is demanding more food to enter Gaza, Israel is demolishing the camp on the heads of the Palestinians, and the bombardment never ceases. A Palestinian of Jabalia named Abu El-Nasser, who escaped to Gaza City, stated, “We want to spare lives, not extra food.”
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, in the past 24 hours, there have been 200 injuries and 85 fatalities.
Officials at Kamal Adwan Hospital in neighboring Beit Lahiya said they were evacuating patients after it was struck by Israeli fire, and locals and medical officials reported that Israeli tanks were besieging the Al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia for the third day.
Airstrikes in the south claimed the lives of at least five individuals, including three children in a home in Rafah and three children in a residence in Khan Younis.
Residents living east of Khan Younis stated they were leaving Khuzaa town as Israeli troops started to encroach on the eastern boundary of the region and started to bulldoze over the border fence.
“Everywhere there is bombing, people are fleeing in fear. One Khuzaa resident told Reuters over the phone as he and his family were departing that “it was a surprising incursion.”
Separately, the US envoy to Jerusalem stated on Tuesday that a slowing of the Gaza war and a discussion of prospects for Palestinian administration would be necessary in order to establish formal Israeli-Saudi relations as part of an evolving trilateral agreement involving Washington.
Ambassador Jack Lew stated, “I think there will need to be a quiet period in Gaza and a conversation about how do you deal with the question of the future of Palestinian governance.”
“In my opinion, the potential for strategic gain justifies the risk of having that discussion. However, that is a choice that the Israeli government and people must make,” he said at a conference organized by the think tank Israel Democracy Institute (IDI).
