The Israeli army again dropped leaflets on residents to evacuate to the southern part of the Gaza Strip – “All those who remain are putting themselves at risk due to Hamas terrorist activities in civilian areas”
At least 55 Palestinians were killed overnight in the Gaza Strip after Israel said it would step up its bombing campaign on the Palestinian enclave, the Hamas government said.
At least 55 people were killed “overnight until 06:00 in the morning and more than 30 homes were destroyed,” the government of the Palestinian movement Hamas, which rules Gaza, noted in its statement.
At the same time, 4 people were killed and many injured in an Israeli air strike on the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that the Al Ansar mosque in the area was bombed.
The Israeli Armed Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet – Israel’s internal security agency – confirmed the airstrike in Jenin and claimed to have hit an underground bunker in the area of ​​the mosque, which was used as a base by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters.
The IDF & ISA just conducted an aerial strike on a Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist compound in the Al-Ansar Mosque in Jenin.
Recent IDF intel revealed that the Mosque was used as a command center to plan and execute terrorist attacks against civilians. pic.twitter.com/gQfyv6wUAV
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 22, 2023
According to the Israeli military, the mosque was used as a “command center for planning attacks” and a “base for carrying them out”. This “terrorist cell” had staged, the military said, an attack with an explosive device on October 14 near the fence separating Israel from the West Bank, with no casualties. Elsewhere in the West Bank, one Palestinian was killed in a military raid in Nablus and another was killed in Toumbas, the ministry added.
According to Palestinian Authority figures, at least 89 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since October 7, when an attack launched by Hamas militants on Israeli soil sparked a new war with thousands of casualties on both sides.
Since then, the Israeli armed forces have made hundreds of arrests of suspects in the West Bank.
The ground attack is a matter of time
The Israelis are pounding the Gaza Strip relentlessly, preparing the next phase of their operation against the Palestinian enclave that has been under Hamas control since 2007.
Israeli IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari said at a press conference on Saturday that the Israeli army will “deepen” and “increase” its attacks in Gaza, while the army flew again brochures to the residents to evacuate to the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
“All those who remain put themselves at risk because of Hamas’ terrorist activities in civilian areas,” the leaflets said.
Source :Skai
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