Israeli forces conduct attacks on ‘all areas’ in the Gaza Strip
The night sky was lit up earlier by explosions that took place in the eastern areas of Gaza along the boundary with Israel.
We had received confirmation from witnesses that the Israeli military has struck the city of Beit Lahiya extensively during the past hour. People woke up to the sound of explosions and Israeli tanks moving closer to residential areas.
We have got more reports coming from the city of Rafah in southern Gaza, suggesting that the Israeli forces are operating in the Shaboura neighbourhood.
Israeli forces have also advanced to the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood, which is on the western side of Rafah city.
The population in Rafah had recently started to flee the area, going to al-Mawasi, which is only a few kilometres away from the city.
We understand that night attacks have taken place in all areas in the Gaza Strip, overwhelming capacity in the morgues.
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Israel wants to ‘lock the people of Gaza up into smaller cells, then move in’
Andreas Krieg, associate professor of security studies at King’s College London, says Israel has used the two-month ceasefire to gather intelligence on the whereabouts of “Hamas cells” as well as potential locations of the captives.
“I think what they’re trying to do now is further degrade Hamas and potentially kill some of its leaders, which they’ve done over the past couple of days, and apart from that, seize more territory,” Krieg told Al Jazeera.
The plan is part of what the far-right Israeli government wants to achieve, including expelling all the Palestinians from Gaza as outlined by President Trump’s “bizarre vision of the Riviera of the Middle East“, he added.
“It wants to seize territory and potentially never return it. It wants to lock the people of Gaza up into smaller cells and then move in.”
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