The Israeli army today expanded the ground incursion into Beit Lahia, in the north of the Gaza Strip, after receiving prior information that pointed to the presence of Hamas elements in that area.
"Troops began operating in the Beit Lahia area after receiving prior information from intelligence services indicating the presence of terrorists and terrorist infrastructure," the army said in a statement today.
In the note, the army guarantees that it is facilitating the "safe" evacuation of Palestinians living in combat zones through organized routes.
It is estimated that around 3,000 Gazans continue to live in the city of Beit Lahia, in the north of the country, which had already been punished in recent weeks by Israeli bombings.
"At the same time, troops continue to operate in the Yabalia area, where in the last day they eliminated around 50 terrorists," the note said.
Northern Gaza is facing its worst military offensive since the start of the war.
"In the face of the continued and fierce attack by the Israeli occupation forces against the northern province of Gaza and the ever-increasing siege against it and its hospitals, we appeal to our great people in the northern Gaza Strip to donate blood to the Ahli Baptist Arab Hospital ", requested today the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, 43,020 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip - most of them women and children - and 101,110 have been injured, according to the Ministry of Health in the enclave governed by Hamas.
The secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Jan Egeland, visited Gaza City and other areas in the north of the enclave this week and lamented having "witnessed the almost unprecedented suffering of the families living there".
"What I saw and heard in northern Gaza was a population pushed to the limit. Families torn apart, men and boys detained and separated from their loved ones, and families unable even to bury their dead. Some have gone days without food, cannot find clean drinking water nowhere. It's one scene after another of utter despair," Egeland said in a statement.
In the note he recalls that around 100,000 people are still trapped in northern Gaza and that they are "completely isolated from humanitarian aid".
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