Today, Tuesday, the Israeli army announced the end of its military operation in central Gaza, about 6 days after its launch, while the Ministry of Health in the Strip announced that the occupation committed 3 massacres during the past 24 hours, killing 40 martyrs and 120 injured.
Thus, the death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip rises to 37,164 martyrs and 84,832 wounded, in addition to thousands of people missing under the rubble.
The Israeli occupation army also said that 10 soldiers, including 9 in the Gaza Strip, were injured during the past 24 hours, after it was announced this morning that an officer and 3 soldiers were killed in battles with resistance factions in the Strip.
This coincides with the continued bombing since dawn on the areas of the central Gaza Strip, Khan Yunis, and Rafah in the south, resulting in martyrs and wounded among civilians.
Israeli withdrawal
The Israeli army said – in a statement – “The forces of the 98th Division completed their mission and the joint division’s attack east of Deir al-Balah and east of Bureij, above and below ground,” claiming that the division killed 100 Palestinian militants, found weapons, and destroyed dozens of enemy infrastructure.
He pointed out that the 98th Division is in the process of combat procedures for the upcoming mission in the Gaza Strip, without further details.
The division had carried out extensive incursions into the Gaza Strip, including into Al-Shifa Hospital and the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City, and in Jabalia (north) and the city of Khan Yunis (south).
On Monday, Israeli military vehicles retreated from the eastern areas of the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, after a limited incursion that lasted 5 days.
Eyewitnesses reported that the Israeli army retreated from the eastern region of the city of Deir al-Balah, and targeted Palestinians trying to reach their homes, resulting in a number of deaths and injuries.
The reporter, quoting eyewitnesses, said that the army began to blow up a group of houses and bulldoze many residential and agricultural areas, before retreating.
watched Israeli bombing near the tents of displaced people on the beach of Bahr al-Zawaida in the central Gaza Strip #Gaza_War #video pic.twitter.com/r3lzLOPocf
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Bombing and martyrs
On the ground, an Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent said that Israeli occupation army artillery bombed the central and eastern areas of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
The correspondent confirmed that the bodies of 3 martyrs had been recovered from the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah, noting the renewal of Israeli artillery shelling on the city center areas.
He also reported that the occupation forces opened fire on the tents of the displaced in the Mawasi Rafah area, confirming the death of two young men and the wounding of another in a raid that targeted the west of the city.
He reported that a number of Palestinians were martyred and others injured as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood and a gathering of Palestinians on Al-Sahaba Street in Gaza City.
The Palestinian Red Crescent also said that its crews transported one dead and seven wounded after the occupation targeted the vicinity of a school in the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Resistance operations
On the other hand, the resistance factions continued their operations against the occupation forces in several areas of the Gaza Strip, especially in Gaza City in the north and Rafah in the south.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, announced that it had sniped an Israeli soldier in the Netzarim axis, south of Tel al-Hawa in Gaza City.
It also said that it was engaged in fierce clashes with occupation soldiers and vehicles using machine guns and missiles in the areas of advance in Rafah, amid continued bombardment in the city.
It also confirmed that it bombed the Kissufim military site on the Gaza Strip with a missile salvo, without any news of sirens sounding in the area.
It is noteworthy that the Israeli occupation army has been waging a war on Gaza since October 7, 2023, which left nearly 122,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and about 10,000 missing amid massive destruction, famine, and an unprecedented humanitarian and health crisis.
Israel continues its war despite the issuance of a resolution by the UN Security Council to stop it immediately, and orders from the International Court of Justice to end the invasion of the city of Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, and to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza.