Israel expands assault in north Gaza, says civilians can't come back

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The Israeli subject announced Thursday an description of its month-old crushed operation successful bluish Gaza to see portion of Beit Lahiya, a municipality that has been heavy bombed since nan earliest days of nan war, wherever Israel says Hamas militants person regrouped.

The subject said successful a connection that "troops started to operate" successful nan area of Beit Lahiya aft intelligence indicated nan beingness of militants there. Hamas has many times regrouped successful areas wherever nan subject already conducted awesome operations.

The municipality successful nan northwestern area of Gaza was among nan first targets of nan crushed penetration launched complete a twelvemonth ago, aft Hamas' onslaught into confederate Israel. The bluish 3rd of nan territory has been encircled by Israeli forces since then.

Israel launched different awesome violative successful adjacent Jabaliya, a decades-old municipality exile camp, successful early October. It has sharply restricted nan magnitude of assistance entering bluish Gaza and ordered a afloat evacuation. Tens of thousands person fled to adjacent Gaza City successful nan latest wide displacement of nan war.

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The Israel-Hamas war began aft Palestinian militants stormed into Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023, sidesplitting immoderate 1,200 group - mostly civilians — and abducting 250 others. Israel's subject consequence successful Gaza has killed much than 43,000 people, Palestinian wellness officials say. They do not separate betwixt civilians and combatants, but opportunity much than half of those killed were women and children.

Palestinian aesculapian sources told nan Al Jazeera web that astir 20 group were killed Thursday unsocial successful bluish Gaza amid nan expanding Israeli operations successful Beit Lahiya, including 5 group killed and 5 others wounded successful a ambush connected a location successful nan town.

The Israel Defense Forces said Thursday that it was continuing to facilitate "the safe removal of Palestinians from combat zones successful bluish Gaza done organized routes for their safety," aft an IDF commandant said nan subject was moving to displace each civilians from nan northbound of nan war-torn Palestinian territory indefinitely.

Israeli service forces Palestinians to relocate again successful bluish Gaza

Briefing journalists Tuesday night, Brigadier General Itzik Cohen, who commands nan IDF's 162nd Division operating successful Gaza, said that since troops had been forced to participate immoderate areas twice, including nan Jabaliya camp, "there is nary volition of allowing nan residents of nan bluish Gaza Strip to return to their homes."

He said humanitarian assistance — which nan Biden management has demanded that Israel summation nan travel of into Gaza — would beryllium allowed to participate nan southbound of nan enclave "regularly," but not nan north, arsenic location were, he said, "no much civilians left."

According to a United Nations estimate, however, "between 75,000 and 95,000 group were estimated to stay successful North Gaza" arsenic of Monday.

The U.N.'s humanitarian agency OCHA said astir 100,000 group had been forced to fly nan region since Israel launched its violative successful bluish Gaza, and "the decease toll successful nan North Gaza governorate complete nan past period is thought to beryllium successful nan hundreds, perchance complete 1,000."

The U.N. agency said successful July that 1.9 cardinal Gaza residents had been forcibly displaced from their homes.

"In different words, astir 9 retired of 10 group successful Gaza are now estimated to beryllium internally displaced, galore aggregate times," nan U.N.'s humanitarian agency said.

That number is apt to person risen since, fixed Israel's ongoing subject operations and regular removal orders.

No motion of letup successful Israel's parallel warfare pinch Hezbollah

Several ample Israeli airstrikes deed Beirut's confederate suburbs early Thursday, including 1 connected a tract adjacent to Lebanon's only world airport. The Israeli subject had issued an removal announcement for nan site, saying location were Hezbollah accommodation there, without giving much details.

Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem said successful a reside aired Wednesday that nan Lebanese militant group is unfastened for cease-fire negotiations only erstwhile "the force stops its aggression." His reside marked nan 40-day mourning play since erstwhile Hezbollah main Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated successful Beirut.

Hezbollah began firing into Israel connected Oct. 8, 2023, successful solidarity pinch Hamas successful nan Gaza Strip. Both groups are considered proxy forces backed by Iran, which insisted Thursday that contempt Israel sidesplitting galore apical commanders, its "Axis of Resistance" against Israel remained robust. Since nan conflict erupted, much than 3,000 group person been killed and immoderate 13,600 wounded successful Lebanon, according to nan country's wellness ministry.

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Lebanon's authorities news agency said an Israeli drone onslaught deed a car astatine an service checkpoint successful nan confederate larboard metropolis of Sidon, sidesplitting 3 group and wounding respective others, including U.N. peacekeepers based successful confederate Lebanon. The National News Agency said 1 of nan wounded was taken to nan infirmary while nan peacekeepers were treated for insignificant injuries astatine nan segment of nan onslaught astatine nan bluish entranceway of Sidon, Lebanon's third-largest city. There was nary contiguous accusation connected nan identities of those who died.

The U.N. peacekeeping unit successful nan country, UNIFIL, said successful a connection that a convoy "bringing newly-arrived peacekeepers to southbound Lebanon was passing Saida erstwhile a drone onslaught occurred nearby" lightly wounding 5 peacekeepers, whom it said were treated by Lebanese Red Cross medics connected nan spot.

"They will proceed to their posts," UNFIL said of nan troops successful nan convoy, adding: "We punctual each actors of their responsibility to debar actions putting peacekeepers aliases civilians successful danger. Differences should beryllium resolved astatine nan negotiating table, not done violence."

A drone onslaught earlier Thursday deed a car connected a main road conscionable extracurricular Beirut, sidesplitting 1 woman, according to section media.