12/23/2023–|Last updated: 12/23/202301:21 PM (Mecca time)
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that heavy Israeli bombardment targeted the Al-Jarn area in Jabalia Al-Balad, north of Gaza City, amid fierce clashes between the resistance and the Israeli occupation forces and the disruption of all communication lines in the region, at a time when Israeli media reported that the occupation was preparing to end the ground aggression against the Gaza Strip and establish a zone. insulation.
The Israeli bombing during the night hours targeted several areas in the Gaza Strip, resulting in martyrs and wounded.
The Israeli occupation forces also continued their aerial and artillery bombardment of the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City, in conjunction with fierce clashes between the Palestinian resistance and Israeli army forces during attempts to advance its vehicles into the neighborhood.
On the other hand, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced that its fighters have been waging armed clashes since yesterday, Thursday, with the occupation forces penetrating the Jabalia al-Balad area north of the Gaza Strip, and that during the operations they used guerrilla action bombs, Al-Yassin 105 anti-armor shells, and anti-personnel and fortification TPG shells, stressing that they It left a large number of Israeli soldiers dead and wounded, and killed 4 Israeli soldiers from zero range in the Al-Qasasib neighborhood in Jabalia camp.
It also announced the bombing of the entrance to a tunnel in an occupation force in Juhr al-Dik in the central Gaza Strip, leaving its members dead and wounded.
The Brigades broadcast pictures that they said were of targeting a foot force of 5 Israeli soldiers with an anti-fortified shell and clashing with them northwest of the city of Beit Lahia. They also broadcast pictures that they said were of its resistance fighters clashing with enemy forces in the village of Al-Mughraqa in the central Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, the Al-Quds Brigades announced that they bombed Israeli vehicles that entered east of Rafah with mortar shells, causing certain casualties, and targeting a Merkava tank with a tandom shell in the vicinity of the Abu Sharkh roundabout in the northern Gaza Strip.
Strengthening the occupation forces
On the other hand, the Israeli occupation army announced that it had reinforced its forces in Khan Yunis with 5 new brigades. This came hours after Israeli media revealed that the occupation army had withdrawn a battalion in the Golani Brigade from Gaza after 60 days of fighting in which it suffered heavy losses.
Israeli Channel 13 reported that soldiers from the battalion in the Golani Brigade – which is classified as one of the Israeli elite forces – left Gaza to reorganize their ranks.
42 Golani soldiers and officers – including the commander of the 13th Battalion – were killed in the battles of the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza.
In a related context, Israeli military vehicles retreated from the Tal al-Zaatar area in the northern Gaza Strip and the vicinity of the Indonesian hospital in Jabalia last night.
Eyewitnesses reported that dozens of bodies of Palestinians – some of them women and children – were found dumped in the roads after Israeli forces killed them with shells, drone missiles, and snipers with live bullets.
Witnesses described the scenes of decomposing bodies in the streets as catastrophic and tragic, as parts of them were bitten by dogs and cats, while other parts decomposed.
Buffer zone and ending ground aggression
In a related context, the Tel Aviv Tribune team monitored – earlier – southeast of Gaza City, near the Karni (Al-Mintar) crossing, the occupation forces bombing a number of Palestinian buildings near the security fence for the second time in days.
He reported Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent in the Gaza envelope area said that the occupation army deliberately destroyed hundreds of residential buildings and public facilities near the security fence in recent weeks, especially east of Gaza City and Jabalia to the north, as part of a plan to create a buffer zone that would give the Israeli towns in the Gaza envelope a security depth.
The Israeli media revealed a plan to establish military barracks near all Israeli settlements close to the security fence.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz said that the Israeli army is already in the midst of deployment for the third phase, contrary to what decision makers announce, adding that the various command centers are already preparing for a major change next January, and that the Israeli army is planning to lay off a number of reserve soldiers due to the burden on the economy. And to the soldiers and their families.
For its part, Israeli Channel 11 said that the army is preparing to end the ground operation within weeks, stressing that the third phase includes reducing the number of forces, forming a buffer zone, and continuing focused attacks.
Destructive bombs
In a related context, the American newspaper “The New York Times” reported that Israel used hundreds of MK-84 bombs with high destructive power – after Tel Aviv obtained them from Washington – in areas it classified as safe for civilians, based on an analysis of supported visual evidence. With artificial intelligence.
The newspaper pointed out that huge craters had formed as a result of bombs falling on areas in southern Gaza, and it was found after scanning satellite images that the diameter of each crater was more than 12 meters.
According to munitions experts, craters of this size would not form in the light sandy soil of Gaza unless bombs weighing two thousand pounds were used.
In response to a New York Times question regarding this issue, a spokesman for the Israeli occupation army (whose name was not mentioned) said: Israel’s priority is to eliminate Hamas, and these questions will be addressed in later stages.
Former United Nations war crimes investigator Mark Garlasko said that the intensity of the Israeli bombing of Gaza in the first weeks had not been witnessed since the Vietnam War, stressing that the bombing was of this intensity in the first (1991) and second (2003) Iraq wars.