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Israeli tanks have traveled to multiple regions of Gaza for the past 24 hours, with journalists reporting heavy artillery, explosions and gunfire sounds on CNN in the city.
Geolocation images on Tuesday show tanks in an area known as beach camps to the west of the territory’s largest city.
The tank was filmed south of Islamic University on Monday, showing Israeli forces being pushed deep into Gaza city since launching a ground attack on Sunday.
The Israeli forces’ push towards one of Gaza’s most populous regions, including three armored divisions, have sparked widespread criticism both at home and abroad.
Within Israel, the remaining hostage families held in Gaza say the operation puts them in even greater danger. Approximately 20 hostages are thought to be still alive. Many European governments, like Canada and Australia, believe it is exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in abused enclaves.
Israeli forces ordered residents of Gaza city and ordered those who evacuated there earlier this month. At the time, it was estimated that about 1 million people were in Gaza. Israeli forces told CNN on Tuesday that 640,000 people have since left the city. You cannot confirm that estimate.
As they control more of Gaza city, Israeli units are remotely detonating armored vehicles packed with explosives to knock down the buildings, according to videos and images geolocated by CNN. “Hamas will convert such buildings into combat zones used for ambushing, weapons depots, combat tunnels and observation posts,” the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) told CNN.
The IDF said on Tuesday that an officer was killed during a battle in Gaza city on Monday. He was appointed Major General Shahar Netanel Bozagro, 27.
According to the first IDF probe, Bozagro was killed when Hamas operatives fired an RPG with one of the battalion’s tanks.
Residents and reporters have witnessed the presence of heavy drones in the sky above Gaza city, similar to Israeli attack helicopters.
“Every explosion has felt like an earthquake lately, not a philosophor, but a literal shaking of the ground beneath us,” Gaza city spokesman Acem Alnabi wrote on X on Tuesday.
Despite the escape, hundreds of thousands of people are still in Gaza city and are unable or unable to move south as ordered by the Israeli army.
Last week, an independent UN investigation first concluded that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza for the first time. The Israeli government strongly denied it.
Abu Wisham, who has lost his home and son and is sleeping on the street, told CNN:
“Anyone who should die here or in the South will die, our fate will come wherever we are,” he said in despair.
Several functional medical facilities cannot address what the Red Cross International Committee described as “astronomical needs” in Gaza on Tuesday.
Two hospitals in Gaza City, Al Lantisi Children’s Hospital and a specialized eye hospital, closed patients and evacuated on Monday, according to Gaza’s Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Saya Aziz, a British and Australian doctor at Al-Shifa Hospital, said there was nothing to treat the patient’s wounds. Taking the crying baby into her arm, she told CNN:
Even if they could transfer patients from Gaza city, Aziz added, “I was in the south, they had nothing, nothing.”
Medical assistance for Palestinians, an NGO working in Gaza, said on Tuesday that Al-Kudz Hospital was damaged as a result of heavy artillery fire in the Tar Al-Hawa area. Videos taken from the hospital on Monday showed that the surrounding streets were completely empty.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Association (PRCS) said on Tuesday that a key oxygen station at Al-QUDS Hospital was hit by an Israeli shooting and is unavailable. The hospital’s run PRCS said hospitals must now rely on pre-filled oxygen cylinders that last only for three days.
The group said Israeli military vehicles are located at hospital gates, preventing anyone in the compound from leaving. The IDF did not respond to CNN’s request for comment.
The healthcare centre run by the Palestinian Medical Reliem Society (PMRS) had also been demolished, Map said.
The Israeli Cabinet originally set October 7th, the second anniversary of Hamas’ attack on Israel. As a deadline for evacuation and acquisitions by the IDF. But former residents of the area say it’s difficult to establish full control in the city’s narrow streets.
Israel expands operations in the West Bank and expands key intersection with Jordan closure
Israel’s move has driven several governments to acknowledge the Palestinian state and move forward. Recently, France, the UK, Australia, Canada and Portugal have been among governments taking a step forward.
Israel denounced recognition as a reward for terrorism. But French President Emmanuel Macron told a meeting at the United Nations on Monday that the Palestinian state’s perception was “the only solution that will allow Israel to live in peace,” calling the move “Hamas’ defeat.”
British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper warned of the consequences of “generals coming” and said that what he heard from a doctor returning from Gaza was “will be with me forever.”
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Gaza’s “size of death and destruction” surpassed other conflicts during his tenure as the UN’s top official.
When world leaders gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, an independent UN investigation accused the Israeli government of trying to establish “permanent control over the Gaza Strip” and “a majority of Jews within the occupied West Bank and Israel.”
The Independent Committee, established by the UN Human Rights Council, has released detailed reports on Israeli lawsuits in Gaza and throughout the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Israeli military and government operations expanded on the occupied West Bank. Last month, Israel ultimately approved a controversial plan to build thousands of new housing units that effectively cut territories in the two. On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country “doubled the Jewish settlements” on the West Bank, saying it would “continue this path.”
Recently, Unrwa said Israeli forces have further strengthened movement and access restrictions, including the establishment of new road gates to control Palestinian movements in parts of the occupied West Bank. In the northern part of the territory, around 32,000 Palestinians “cannot return home; more than a third of those evacuated are children.”
On Tuesday, Israel said it would close the crossing between the occupied West Bank and Jordan “until further notice” without giving any reason. Allenby is the only official intersection between the West Bank and Jordan, and is the exit and entrance for Palestinians on the West Bank who travel on land and land. It is also the main route for transporting commercial goods between Jordan and the West Bank.
