The Israeli army threatened a new military operation in the northern Gaza Strip under the pretext of rockets being fired from the area, and ordered residents to head south. At the same time, the ongoing bombing has claimed more Palestinian lives.
In a tweet posted early Wednesday on the X platform, the spokesman for the occupation army, Avichay Adraee, said that all those present in the Beit Hanoun area, the Manshiyya and Sheikh Zayed neighborhoods, and the displaced there must immediately evacuate their areas towards the “known shelters” in the center of Gaza City.
He added that Hamas and other factions are launching rockets from those areas, and that the Israeli army will act “immediately and forcefully against them,” as he put it.
On the other hand, Israeli Channel 12 said that the army is preparing for what it described as a large-scale ground activity in Beit Hanoun.
Since the start of its ground invasion in late October, the occupation army has carried out several incursions north of the besieged Strip, especially in Beit Hanoun and Jabalia camp, but it has failed to end the Palestinian resistance there.
Recently, the Israeli army began extensive military operations east of Khan Yunis and in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood south of Gaza City, where it was subjected to repeated strikes by the resistance, in parallel with the ongoing operations in Rafah to the south.
The Israeli invasions of Rafah and Khan Yunis have displaced more than a million Palestinians, according to figures published by the United Nations.
Bombing and martyrs
Hours after the occupation army threatened to displace the residents of Beit Hanoun and other areas in northern Gaza, Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that the eastern areas of Jabalia al-Balad were subjected to artillery shelling.
The correspondent also reported that 3 Palestinians were killed and others were injured this morning in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a residential apartment in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
In the middle of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian citizens were injured today in Israeli artillery shelling that targeted the mills area south of Deir al-Balah city.
The occupation forces also fired at the eastern part of Al-Bureij camp, and the Israeli artillery targeted the area north of Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip as well.
Simultaneously, Israeli boats bombed the vicinity of Wadi Gaza Bridge, northwest of Al-Nuseirat camp.
In the same area, the Martyr Omar Al-Qassem Forces announced that they had targeted occupation forces gatherings east of Al-Bureij camp with a number of mortar shells.
More than 20 Palestinians were killed and dozens more were injured as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
Since October 7, nearly 40,000 Palestinians have been killed, more than 91,000 injured, and about 10,000 are still missing, according to Palestinian government agencies in Gaza.