The Israeli army said on Wednesday it had completed its mission in the Shujaiya neighborhood in the eastern Gaza Strip, where heavy fighting had been ongoing for two weeks.
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The operation destroyed “eight tunnels,” “eliminated dozens of terrorists, destroyed fighting facilities and planted bombs in buildings,” the military said in a statement.
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The attack in Shujaiya, which involved elite Israeli forces, spread into the centre of Gaza City on Monday.
Gaza civil defence spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said there had been extensive damage to Shujaiya’s “infrastructure and residential areas”, turning it into a “ghost town”.
“The reality in the Gaza Strip is horrific and we are calling on the world for the umpteenth time that international organizations and human rights institutions must take action,” he said in a statement.
Israeli forces dropped thousands of leaflets on war-torn Gaza City on Wednesday, urging all residents to evacuate from a fierce offensive that is running through the besieged Palestinian territory’s main city.
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Addressed to “everyone in Gaza city”, the leaflets outlined designated evacuation routes and warned that parts of the city, where the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says up to 350,000 people are staying, “will remain a dangerous war zone”.
In early May, Israeli forces launched a ground offensive against Rafah on the border with Egypt, which was then Israel’s last remaining Hamas stronghold, but clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters have increased in the northern and central Gaza Strip since then.
The war in Gaza entered its 10th month on Sunday.
The Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7 that sparked the war left 1,195 people dead, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.
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The militants also took 251 hostages, of which 116 remain in Gaza, and the army said 42 were killed.
Israel responded with a military offensive that has killed at least 38,295 people in the Gaza Strip, most of them civilians, according to figures from the Gaza Strip’s Ministry of Health.
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