
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have warned Gaza residents that the city has now turned into a ‘warzone’ and the IDF has increased its regional attacks. IDF leaflets dropped in large numbers in Gaza read, Gaza city has become a battlefield.
Shelters in Northern Gaza and Gaza Governorate are not safe. The leaflets also mentioned that it is no longer safe to live in Gaza, as the IDF has urged residents to move to the southern area and evacuate immediately. Leaflets were dropped from IDF fighter planes.
The IDF reportedly destroyed approximately 140 Hamas underground tunnels in an air campaign on Friday night and Saturday morning. The IDF and Shin Bet have also said that al-Shifa hospital in Gaza was one of Hamas’s main terrorist operations centers. Israeli troops and tanks launched hours-long ground attacks on Hamas and other terrorist targets from underground cellars in northern Gaza ahead of a widely expected ground attack after repeated air strikes failed to flush out the hijackers and their hostages, it was reported.
According to the report, Israel attacked the ground amid even afer the warnings from the United Nations. Gaza is on the verge of running out of fuel, forcing it to restrict relief efforts to the area, which is under complete siege since Hamas’s bloody massacre in southern Israel on October 7 had already sparked the war. The death toll in Gaza during the war has increased to 7,000, the count of the dead is still ongoing. There had never been so many deaths before in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Palestinian officials fear that if Israel launches a ground attack to crush Hamas, there is a possibility of greater loss of life and property. Hamas has occupied Gaza since 2007. The Health Ministry said on Wednesday that more than 750 people were killed in Hamas-ruled Gaza in the past 24 hours, up from 704 killed the previous day.