Israel extends Gaza occupation beyond ‘yellow line’ in north, bombs south

Israeli attacks person killed astatine slightest 414 Palestinians and injured 1,145 successful regular truce violations since October 10.

The Israeli subject has spent the past 24 hours expanding the alleged “yellow line” successful eastbound Gaza, peculiarly successful eastbound Gaza City’s Tuffah, Shujayea, and Zeitoun neighbourhoods, according to Al Jazeera teams connected the ground, squeezing Palestinians into ever smaller clusters of the enclave.

The Israeli army’s actions connected Monday are besides pushing it person to the cardinal artery of Salah al-Din Street, forcing displaced families sheltering adjacent the country to fly arsenic much of them travel nether intensive threat, arsenic Israel’s genocidal warfare connected Gaza shows nary signs of abating.

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Israel present physically occupies much than 50 percent of the Gaza Strip.

Since the ceasefire took effect, Israeli attacks person killed astatine slightest 414 Palestinians and injured 1,145 successful daily truce violations despite the ceasefire woody mediated by the United States connected October 10.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said, “The ongoing Israeli attacks connected the ground, the enlargement of the ‘yellow line’ are meant to devour up much of the territory crossed the eastbound part, truly shrinking the full country wherever radical are sheltering.”

“Everyone is cramped here. The colonisation present not conscionable doubled but tripled successful galore of the neighbourhoods, fixed the information that nary of these radical is capable to spell backmost to their neighbourhoods. We’re talking astir Zeitoun, Shujayea, arsenic good arsenic Tuffah,” helium added.

“It was not until the past fewer minutes that the sounds of hums, the drones buzzing, faded away, but it had been going connected for the past nighttime and each of yesterday. Ongoing explosions that could beryllium heard intelligibly from here,” Mahmoud said.

Intense artillery bombardment and chopper occurrence besides resumed connected Monday successful the areas southbound of the besieged enclave, northbound and eastbound of the cities of Rafah and Khan Younis.

On Sunday, Israel launched much attacks into parts of Gaza extracurricular its nonstop subject control. At slightest three Palestinians were killed successful abstracted Israeli attacks successful Khan Younis, aesculapian sources told Al Jazeera.

A five-storey gathering belonging to the al-Shana household successful the Maghazi campy successful cardinal Gaza collapsed. It had been subjected to Israeli bombing astatine the extremity of 2023.

Civil Defence teams are searching for missing radical nether the rubble. The Wafa quality bureau reported that astatine slightest 5 radical were injured.

Israeli propulsion to marque Rafah crossing ‘one-way exit’

Expectations person heightened astir the imaginable reopening of the Rafah crossing, fuelling some hopeless anticipation and heavy fear.

For galore successful Gaza, determination is immoderate anticipation it could connection a lifeline, allowing the sick and wounded to entree aesculapian care, reuniting separated families, and giving immoderate radical a uncommon accidental to determination successful oregon retired of the Strip. Some besides spot it arsenic a imaginable motion of easing restrictions.

But fears stay strong. Many interest the opening volition beryllium constricted and temporary, benefitting lone a few. Others fearfulness it could go a one-way exit, raising concerns astir imperishable expulsion, efficaciously Israeli taste cleansing, and whether those who permission volition beryllium allowed to return.

“Until this moment, there’s thing connected the crushed different than the headlines we’ve been speechmaking implicit the past mates of days, the anticipation present that wrong days the Rafah crossing is going to unfastened and let for question successful and retired of Gaza. So far, we cognize the Israeli subject is pushing for Rafah to beryllium conscionable a one-way exit,” Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud reported.

After months of uncertainty, radical successful Gaza who person suffered unimaginable nonaccomplishment and demolition are cautious. Even the anticipation of alleviation comes with questions and small spot successful what volition hap next.

At slightest 71,386 Palestinians person been killed and 171,264 injured since the commencement of the warfare successful October 2023, according to the latest figures from Gaza’s Ministry of Health. At slightest 420 radical person been killed since the ceasefire was agreed upon 3 months ago.

The Israeli subject continues to artifact a ample magnitude of planetary humanitarian assistance amassing astatine the Gaza crossings, portion maintaining that determination is no shortage of aid despite testimonies by the United Nations and others moving connected the ground.