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After the Gaza Government Information Office announced today that Israel had bombed the Strip with around 32,000 tons of explosives and more than 13,000 bombs, averaging 87 tons of explosives per square kilometer, it confirmed that Israeli tanks had actually reached the vicinity of the city’s hospital square.
More than 6 thousand displaced
The head of the office, Salama Maarouf, added in a statement to Al Arabiya on Friday that the Israeli incursion into that area left more than 6,000 people displaced.
He also added that Israeli forces requested that displaced people be evacuated from the area after cutting electricity.
He stressed that this step comes in the context of Israel’s behavior aimed at completing the “Holocaust” that began in Gaza 35 days ago, referring to the violent campaign in the Strip.
He stressed that the Israeli siege targeted the hospital square, which also includes “Al-Rantisi, Al-Nasr, Al-Ayoun and Mental Health”, cutting off their electricity supply.
He added that this area includes many schools and residential buildings.
While today Israeli forces bombed several areas of the Gaza Strip, as previously confirmed by the Al-Arabiya/Al-Hadath correspondent. He explained that Israeli tanks arrived for the first time in the center of the Gaza Strip, near the Al-Rantisi hospital.
Images obtained by Al Arabiya showed those tanks advancing for the first time in the vicinity of Rantisi.
The office added that more than 50 percent of housing units in Gaza were damaged by Israeli incursions and shelling, while 40,000 housing units were completely demolished.
He also indicated in a statement that initial estimates indicate losses of two billion dollars in relation to damage to buildings and residential towers, while infrastructure suffered damage of around one billion dollars.
On the other hand, the Israeli military announced that around 9,500 missiles had been fired at Israel since October 7, most of which were intercepted, but confirmed that their number “has decreased significantly” since October and since the beginning of military ground operations in the Gaza Strip. .
They hit the clinics
Furthermore, today Israeli bombings targeted the clinics built inside the Al-Shifa hospital, west of Gaza City, causing numerous deaths and injuries.
In the last few hours, Israel has intensified attacks near 3 hospitals (Al-Shifa, Al-Rantisi and Indonesian) to empty those areas of the city of Gaza of Palestinian civilians who have taken refuge in the hospital for weeks. courtyards to shelter from bombings.
While the Government Information Office in Gaza announced today that Israel bombed the Strip with approximately 32,000 tons of explosives and more than 13,000 bombs, with an average of 87 tons of explosives per square kilometer. He added that more than 50% of housing units in Gaza have been damaged by Israeli incursions and shelling, while 40,000 housing units have been completely demolished.
He also indicated in a statement that initial estimates indicate losses of two billion dollars in relation to damage to buildings and residential towers, while infrastructure suffered damage of around one billion dollars.
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While the Israeli army announced yesterday the opening of two safe corridors for 4 hours a day so that the Palestinians remaining in the north of Gaza can exit towards the south.
This came as hundreds of thousands of displaced people gathered in the south of the small besieged Strip in catastrophic conditions, including water shortages, the closure of bakeries or interruptions to fuel supplies. They are joined daily by crowds of men and women who flee on foot
According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the number of displaced people from the northern regions has reached 1.6 million people out of a population of 2.4 million people in the Strip.
As for the war that broke out between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza, after Hamas fighters carried out a surprise attack on October 7 against Israeli military bases and settlements in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of 1,400 people and detention of about 241, according to Israeli officials.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces launched intense airstrikes and heavy shelling on the besieged Gaza Strip, killing around 11,000 people, most of them women and children.