Heavy shelling takes place in the Gaza Strip, with an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson telling CNN that their forces are advancing towards Gaza City, which it says the Israeli army has surrounded since reaching the Gaza Strip on Sunday.

“The north and the south (of Gaza) have been cut off from each other and are under the control of the IDFLt. Col. Peter Lerner told CNN on Monday. This “indeed it means that we are pushing forward towards Gaza Citywe surrounded the city two days ago and are moving forward”Lerner added.

Describing Gaza City as “the stronghold of Hamas terrorist activities”said that the IDF is determined and wants to destroy the militant group.

According to what the envoy to Israel reported on the midday news bulletin of SKAI, Stavros Ioannidis, in the next 48 hours the troops are expected to move to new positionscloser to the center of Gaza.

During the night raid, the IDF announced that ground troops captured a Hamas stronghold and around 450 sites belonging to the group were hitas Israel’s ground offensive on the Gaza Strip continues. The complex contains observation posts, training areas for Hamas operatives and underground terror tunnels. Several Hamas terrorists were killed during the operation as troops captured the site. At the same time, the Israeli army points out that it has killed several Hamas commanders, while among the victims is Jamal Musa, head of Hamas’s special operations. Also, the Navy also carried out strikes against Hamas sitesincluding command centers, and additional guided missile launch sites and observation points.

A humanitarian corridor was opened for 4 hours

Alongside, Israeli army reopens humanitarian corridors for civilians in northern Gaza Stripin order to escape to the south as stated by the Arabic-speaking Spokesman of the Israel Defense Forces, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee.

The humanitarian corridor remained open from 10am-2pm.

Communication is restored in Gaza

Regarding the problem with the Internet after last night’s blackout, this is gradually being restoredaccording to Internet monitoring group NetBlocks.

The Palestinian Red Crescent in turn reported that telecommunications and internet services in the Gaza Strip had been restored. They also said he had been “deliberately and forcibly cut off by the Israeli authorities”.

The American nuclear submarine has arrived in the Middle East

At the same time, the American naval forces are strengthening their presence in the Middle East, as the Central Command of the American Armed Forces (CENTCOM) announced that an Ohio-class submarine arrived a few hours ago and is deployed in its area of ​​responsibility, without however giving further details for the details of the submarine, as is also customary in such cases.

So far, the US has sent two aircraft carriers, the USS Gerald Ford and the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, to the eastern Mediterranean since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, “to prevent hostile actions against Israel” and “any attempt to spread the war after the attack of Hamas”, as the American Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, had announced a week after the attack of Hamas in Israel.