Israel intensifies assault on Gaza City: Defense Minister says "Gaza is cream"

BarcelonaIt hasn't gotten dark in Gaza City tonight. The Israeli army's flares and the flashes of explosions haven't stopped: the Israeli army is intensifying its final assault on the Gazan capital. Benjamin Netanyahu's government has ordered its generals, against their better judgment, to occupy the city before next October 7, the second anniversary of the Palestinian attacks of 2023. The evacuation orders issued by the military to the population have been merely a legal cover: there is literally no room left in southern Gaza to accommodate the million Palestinians surviving in the capital. According to the UN, only 142,000 people left the city in compliance with the forced displacement orders. The rest They have not been able or have not wanted to do so, knowing that there is no safe place in the entire Strip, and that conditions in the evacuation zone, which has also been bombed by Israeli aircraft, are terrifying.

Entering the courthouse to testify in his corruption trial, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was again accused of genocide on Tuesday by a UN commission of inquiry, has declared that "we have begun a powerful operation in Gaza City."

The offensive has focused on the Shati refugee camp, the Tal en Hawa refugee camps, Al Daraj, Al Maghribi or Al Sabra, Sheikh Radwan, and Al Karama. According to Israeli officials, this is the "initial phase" of the ground invasion. Israeli military sources assure that the armored vehicles advanced to the center of the capital, although they carry out incursions and then withdraw. The army spokesman has declared that the city is a "dangerous combat zone." So far, the death toll for the Gazan authorities has risen to 41 overnight, most of them in the capital.

EFE