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Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip is expanding to seize “large areas,” the defense minister said Wednesday.
BBC |
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz says the military will expand its operation in Gaza and seize "large areas" of the territory.
CNN |
The Israeli military’s spokesperson for Arabic media late on Tuesday issued an evacuation order to residents in Gaza’s southern Rafah area, ordering them to move north.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s military operation in the Gaza Strip is expanding to seize “large areas,” the defense minister said, while officials at hospitals inside the Palestinian territory said that Israeli strikes overnight and into Wednesday had killed more than 40 people, nearly a dozen of them children.
Israel says its war in Gaza is "expanding to crush and clean the area" of Hamas, but Palestinian civilians are once again being killed and displaced in huge numbers.
Even before the latest orders, tens of thousands fled temporary shelters in the week after Israel shattered a 2-month-old ceasefire on March 18 with renewed bombardment and ground assaults.
More Americans now see a permanent ceasefire in Gaza as a priority, according to a new The Associated Press-NORC Research Center poll. When asked about the level of importance of negotiating a
All bakeries in Gaza have closed due to a severe lack of fuel and flour caused by Israel’s near month-long blockade of humanitarian aid, according to local authorities.
Hamas has agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal it received two days ago from mediators Egypt and Qatar, the Palestinian militant group's chief said on Saturday.
The Israeli military indicated on Monday it could soon launch another major offensive in Rafah and ordered most of the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip evacuated. Israel ended its ceasefire with Hamas and renewed its air and ground war earlier this month.