“The soldiers (…) completed their mission, which lasted about two weeks, in the Sujaya zone,” an army statement said.
The Israeli armed forces announced last Wednesday night that they had completed their “operations” launched on June 27 in Shujaya, an eastern neighborhood of Gaza City where shelling and fighting have been raging ever since.
“The soldiers (…) completed their mission, which lasted for about two weeks, in the Sujaya zone,” their announcement states.
The operations allowed “eight tunnels” to be destroyed and “dozens of terrorists” to be eliminated, as well as “bases” and “trapped properties” to be destroyed, he added.
The Sujaya attack, which involved special forces units, expanded on Monday to central districts of Gaza City.
Mahmoud Basal, a civil protection spokesman in Gaza, spoke of “major destruction of infrastructure” and housing in Shujaya, which he called a “ghost town”.
“We are telling the world, for the millionth time, that the reality in the Gaza Strip is tragic and there must be action by international organizations and (human rights) organizations,” he added.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Israeli armed forces ordered the entire population of Gaza City to evacuate urgently, declaring that it “remains a dangerous battle zone”.
On May 7, Israeli troops launched a ground offensive in Rafah, on the closed border with Egypt, which was then presented as the last stronghold of Hamas’ military arm, but since then, hostilities have expanded and multiplied in northern and central sectors of the Gaza Strip. .
The war, now in its 279th day, entered its tenth month on Sunday.
It was triggered by an unprecedented raid by Hamas’ military arm in southern Israel on October 7, which killed 1,195 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli data. Of the 251 people kidnapped during it, 116 remain hostages in the Gaza Strip, but 42 are believed to be dead, according to the Israeli military.
In retaliation, Israel vowed to wipe out Hamas, in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007.
The large-scale Israeli military operations since then in the Gaza Strip have so far killed at least 38,300 people, most of them civilians, according to the enclave’s health ministry.
Source :Skai
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