Israel battles Hamas in Gaza as space for displaced families narrows
Video obtained by Reuters shows the moment a building in Gaza’s Nuseirat was hit by an Israel i strike. Video: ReutersIt said 52 year-old Qaid Farhan Alkadi, a member of the Bedouin community in southern Israel, had been transferred to hospital and his medical condition was normal.
The operation, following the rescue of four Israeli hostages in June, comes as talks have continued to try to agree a halt to the fighting in Gaza and the return of more than 100 hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners. “We are doing everything to save the hostages,” the head of the military Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi said in a statement.Families forced to flee as Israel issues new evacuation orders Mr Alkadi was taken hostage in Kibbutz Magen, one of a string of communities around the Gaza Strip that were attacked by Hamas-led fighters on October 7th.displaced by fighting in the Gaza Strip crowded on to the seashore as Israeli forces continued to battle Hamas fighters in central and southern areas, with health officials reporting at least 17 people killed in strikes on Tuesday. Ceasefire talks were continuing in Cairo with little sign of a concrete breakthrough over key issues separating the sides, including future control over two corridors in the Gaza Strip once fighting ends. In recent days, Israel has issued several evacuation orders across Gaza, the most since the beginning of the 10-month war, prompting an outcry from Palestinians, theResidents and displaced families in the southern city of Khan Younis and Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza, where most of the population is now concentrated, said they have been pushed to live in tents now packed on the beach. “Maybe they should bring ships, so next time they order people to leave we can jump there, people are now on the beach near the seawater,” said Aya a displaced woman from Gaza City, who now lives with her family in western Deir Al-Balah. “Every day they say talks are progressing, an agreement is close, then all falls like dust. Do negotiators know that every day more families get wiped out by Israeli bombardment? Does the world understand that every day more costs us more lives?” she told Reuters via a chat app. Palestinian health officials said Israeli strikes killed nine Palestinians in Bureij and Maghazi, two of Gaza's eight historic refugee camps, while another strike killed five people in Khan Younis and a third killed three others in Rafah. More than 40,400 Palestinians have been killed in the war, said Gaza's health ministry. The crowded enclave has been laid to waste and most of its 2.3 million people have been displaced multiple times and face acute shortages of food and medicine, humanitarian agencies say. The conflict was triggered after Hamas militants stormed into southern Israel on October 7th killing 1,200 and taking more than 250 hostages, by Israeli tallies. On Monday, United Nations aid operations in Gaza ground to a halt after Israel issued new evacuation orders on Sunday for Deir Al-Balah, where the UN operations centre was located, a senior U.N. official said. The evacuation order came as the UN has been preparing a campaign to vaccinate an estimated 640,000 children in Gaza against polio, after at least one case of the disease was identified. As the fighting continued, negotiators in Cairo continued meetings aimed at halting the fighting and bringing 109 Israeli and foreign hostages home in an exchange deal for Palestinian prisoners. Although there has been optimism from the United States, which is supporting the talks along with Egypt and Qatar, Hamas and Israel have been trading blame for a lack of progress. Among the main sticking points has been Israel's insistence on maintaining control over the so-called Philadelphi corridor on the border with Egypt, which Israel says has been used as one of the main routes for smuggling weapons into Gaza. Israel has also insisted on checks on people moving from southern and central Gaza into northern areas across the Netzarim corridor, running across the centre of the Gaza Strip, saying it needs to ensure armed fighters cannot move north. – Reuters‘Everyone is moving to Australia all the time. It doesn’t help with dating’Oasis set for two gigs at Croke Park as band reunites for Irish and UK tourBank levy: change to €200 million fee for 2025 yet to be decided - Jack Chambers
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