2023-10-28 15:47:25
Cover image: In Gaza City, October 28, 2023. MOHAMMED ABED / AFP
The northern Gaza Strip was bombed on Friday evening and Friday night. The Israeli army said it had “hit 150 underground targets” in the north of the enclave. The IDF also said that Israeli soldiers were still present on Gazan soil in the morning and that the nighttime operation caused no injuries. Among the targets, « terrorist tunnels, underground battle spaces and additional underground infrastructure”. Also, the army of the Jewish state reports having killed several members of Hamas, including the head of the Hamas air network, Asem Abu Rakabaand the commander of the naval force of the Hamas Gaza Brigade, Ratib Abu Tzahiban. This information could not be independently verified. As of Friday evening, Hamas had reported “violent fighting” with the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip. The Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, spoke of ground fighting « to Beit Hanoun [Nord] and Bureij [centre] ». At the start of the evening, Daniel Hagari, the spokesperson for the Israeli army, declared an expansion of the activity of “ground forces tonight”. Following these announcements, Hamas said to itself ” ready “throughEzzat Al-Risheqa senior Hamas official, to face a ground offensive.Families of hostages, worried about their loved ones held in the Gaza Strip, request an emergency meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu and the rest of the cabinetAfter ” tonight [qui] was the worst night ever”, in a press release. Families deplore the” anxiety, [la] frustration and above all enormous anger that no member of the war cabinet took the trouble to meet the families of those kidnapped to explain one thing to them: if the ground operation endangered the safety of the 229 hostages in Gaza”.Palestinian civil defense in Gaza, territory under Hamas control, ensures that “hundreds of buildings and houses were completely destroyed and thousands more damaged” by the Israeli strikes during the night, which “changed the landscape” from the north of the Gaza Strip.Internet access in the Gaza Strip has been interruptedsaid NetBlocks, an Internet connectivity observatory, “as reports emerge of intense shelling”. Furthermore, the Palestinian telecommunications operator Jawwal announced on Facebook that mobile phone services and internet access had been cut in the Gaza Strip for the same reason. Several organizations such as Palestinian Red Crescent, the World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders et Amnesty International announced that they had lost contact with the Gaza Strip.
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