Israeli forces have intensified their offensive in northern Gaza, ordering residents of Beit Hanoun to evacuate due to ongoing rocket fire. The evacuations have worsened humanitarian conditions, with reports of casualties and communication outages.
Israel i forces carrying out a weeks-long offensive in northern Gaza ordered any residents remaining in Beit Hanoun to leave the town on Sunday, citing Palestinian militant rocket fire from the area, residents said. The instruction to leave has caused a new wave of displacement, although it was not immediately clear how many people were affected, the residents said.
The Israeli military says its operations in northern Gaza are aimed at disrupting militant networks and preventing them from regrouping. Its instructions to civilians to evacuate are meant to keep them out of harm’s way, the military says. Israeli forces raid northern Gaza hospital, ordering hundreds to evacuate Much of the area around the northern towns of Beit Hanoun, Jabalia and Beit Lahiya has been cleared of people and razed, fuelling speculation that Israel intends to keep the area as a closed buffer zone after the fighting in Gaza ends. The Israeli military announced its new push into the Beit Hanoun area on Saturday. It said rocket fire into Israel continued throughout Sunday, despite the intense operation there. The Palestinian Civil Emergency Service said it had lost communication with people still trapped in the town, and it was unable to send teams into the area because of the raid. Palestinian health officials said Israeli military strikes across the enclave killed at least 23 people on Sunday. One of those strikes killed seven people and wounded others at al-Wafa Hospital in Gaza City, the Palestinian civil emergency service said in a statement. Later on Sunday, an Israeli air strike killed seven additional people in a house in Beit Hanoun, medics said. There was no immediate Israeli commen
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