Israel presses on with offensive but some Gaza City residents ignore order to head south
says a heavy Israel i assault on Gaza City this week could wreck efforts to finally end the war just as negotiations have entered the home stretch. In a statement, the Palestinian Islamist militant group said mediators had yet to provide it with updates on the state of the talks since it made concessions last week in response to a’s office said the head of Israel ’s Shin Bet security agency was headed to Cairo for more ceasefire talks.
“We will die but not leave to the south. We have tolerated starvation and bombs for nine months and we are ready to die as martyrs here,” said Mohammad Ali , in a text message. The Civil Emergency Service said it estimated that at least 30 people had been killed in the Tel Al-Hawa and Rimal areas and it could not recover bodies from the streets there.
The territory’s main cemetery had been bulldozed by the army. People wheeled supplies on the back of bicycles across rubble-strewn tracks, passing the remains of burnt-out and blasted Israeli armoured vehicles. The Israeli military said earlier on Thursday that about five rockets fired from the Rafah area were successfully intercepted.
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