The Israeli army intensified its raids on the central region of the Gaza Strip, as the aggression entered its 88th day, resulting in the death of 70 Palestinians and the injury of more than 100, while the declared death toll of the occupation army rose to 507.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the Israeli bombardment intensified at night with artillery and gunboats on the areas of Al-Zawaida, Deir Al-Balah and Al-Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip.
The Bureij and Maghazi camps were also subjected to artillery shelling, amid the inability of ambulances to enter the Bureij camp to retrieve the martyrs and wounded.
The reporter added that Deir al-Balah was subjected to intense Israeli bombing in the past hours, explaining that 15 of the martyrs were from the Matar family, whose house was targeted by an Israeli raid. Funeral prayers were also performed Tuesday morning for a number of martyrs in the area.
Targeting an Israeli special force
Meanwhile, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), broadcast images of an Israeli special force targeting a building inside a building with an anti-fortified TPG shell in the center of Jabalia al-Balad in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, also broadcast new scenes from an operation it described as qualitative, in which it targeted an Israeli command and control site south of Gaza City.
For his part, Abu Ubaida, spokesman for the Al-Qassam Brigades, announced the complete or partial destruction of 71 military vehicles within 4 days.
Abu Ubaida added that Al-Qassam fighters confirmed the killing of 16 Israeli soldiers, wounding dozens of people with varying degrees of injury, and carried out 42 military missions that left a number of Israeli soldiers dead and wounded, noting that they targeted a number of occupation forces with missiles and anti-fortification devices and individuals and clashed with them from zero distance.
Al-Qassam spokesman said that they booby-trapped two houses and two tunnels against Israeli soldiers, and detonated mines in Israeli vehicles, in addition to carrying out two sniper operations and targeting a helicopter.
The Palestinian resistance in Gaza showed that it is still capable of targeting Israel more than 12 weeks after the start of the aggression, as it fired a barrage of rockets at Tel Aviv in the first minutes of 2024.
Arrests and bodies in the streets
Meanwhile, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz revealed that the number of detainees from the Gaza Strip in Israeli prisons rose by 150% over last month.
In the middle of last month, Rami Abdo, founder of the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Observatory for Human Rights, reported that Israeli forces arrested at least 900 Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip. The Observatory stated that Israel is holding most of the detainees from Gaza at the Zikim military base.
The withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces – from the neighborhoods north of Gaza City – showed widespread destruction and scattered bodies and body parts.
In the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, the bodies of dozens of martyrs were scattered in the streets, and remained lying on the side of the roads for days.
After the occupation forces completed their withdrawal from the neighborhood, the extent of the massive destruction that struck residential buildings, health facilities, and institutions as a result of the weeks-long bombing was revealed.
The death toll of the occupation army rose
On the Israeli side, Soroka Hospital said that it received – yesterday, Monday – 24 wounded soldiers, two of whom were seriously injured in the Gaza battles.
The Israeli hospital added that it provided treatment to 2,408 soldiers injured in Gaza since the start of the war.
For its part, the Israeli army announced, on Monday evening, the killing of one of its soldiers, and the serious wounding of 4 others, including an officer, bringing its announced death toll to 171 since the start of the ground operation on October 27, and to 507 since the beginning of the aggression on Gaza.
Israel says that the war in Gaza, which has turned most areas of the Strip into rubble and claimed the lives of thousands, is still many months away.
But Israel indicated a new phase in the war, with the army talking about reducing its forces in Gaza this month, and moving to a phase that will last for months.
Reducing the number of forces will allow some reserve soldiers to return to civilian life, which will support the Israeli economy damaged by the war, according to what was announced by Israeli media.
Since last October 7, the Israeli army has launched an aggression against Gaza, which as of yesterday, Monday, has left 21,978 martyrs and 57,697 injured, 70% of whom are children and women, massive destruction of infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, according to the Gaza Strip authorities and the United Nations. United.