The Israeli army has ordered new evacuations from four zones in the north of the Gaza Strip, calling them dangerous combat zones. The spokesman of the army informed about it. Meanwhile, according to Reuters, local residents described the shelling of the northern part of the Palestinian territory over the past day as one of the most intense since the beginning of the war.
Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adrai on the X network called on residents of four zones in the area of the village of Beit Lahiya, which lies in the very north of the strip near the border with Israel, to go to two other designated zones. At the same time, he warned that the army will act with extraordinary force against the terrorist infrastructure and subversive elements.
The Israeli army had the areas in the north of the strip evacuated earlier, shortly after the start of the military operation last October. The renewed shelling and bombing of northern Gaza comes nearly four months after the army announced it was withdrawing its troops from the area as Hamas lost control of it.
In a video broadcast by Al Jazeera, the spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas, Abu Ubaydah, called for an escalation of the conflict on all fronts and thanked Iran for its first direct attack against Israel on April 13. He also reiterated that Hamas insists on all its demands in the framework of the ceasefire talks, namely that Israel end the war, withdraw all its troops from Gaza and allow refugees to return to the north.
The conflict between Israel and the Hamas movement has lasted for 200 days. The war was sparked last year on October 7 by a Hamas attack on Israeli territory, around 130 hostages remain in the Gaza Strip. Fighting in the Gaza Strip has claimed 34,000 Palestinian lives so far.
