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Israel launches massive shelling in northern Gaza Strip
October 28, 2023, 1:42 a.m
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The Israeli armed forces are expanding their attacks on the Gaza Strip. Bombs are flying every minute, especially in the north, as videos and photos show. There are also said to have been violent explosions in the West Bank.
The north of the Gaza Strip came under massive fire from the Israeli army on Friday evening. This was shown by live footage filmed by the AFP news agency. The attacks began around 7 p.m. (local time) and are continuing. The Israeli army told AFP that it was “continuously taking action in the Gaza Strip” against the Hamas militant group that rules there.
According to the Palestinian Telecommunications Company, all communications and internet services are currently down in the Gaza Strip due to the heavy bombardment. The Hamas government’s media office accused Israel of using this move “to carry out massacres with bloody retaliatory strikes from the air, on land and at sea.” The Israeli attacks were “the most violent since the beginning of the war” on October 7th.
According to the military wing of the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip, there are Israeli ground operations in two different locations. The Al-Kassam Brigades said there were violent clashes in the town of Beit Hanun in the north and east of the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip. Both are places near the border. The information cannot be verified. Israel’s army declined to comment on the report.
The Essedin al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said on the Telegram online service that it had fired “barrels of rockets” into Israeli territory on Friday evening. According to Israeli media reports, rockets were fired towards Tel Aviv, the center of the country and the north of the occupied West Bank. An AFP reporter heard powerful explosions in the Ramallah area of the West Bank.
Israel recently announced the expansion of its attacks on the Gaza Strip. It is still unclear whether the announcement marks the start of the Israeli military’s widely expected ground offensive. The Israeli military had previously made isolated, time-limited advances on the ground.
The radical Islamic Palestinian organization launched an unprecedented major attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7th. According to Israeli information, around 1,400 people were killed and, according to the latest Israeli information, 229 people were taken as hostages to the Gaza Strip. In response, Israel sealed off the Gaza Strip and launched massive airstrikes on suspected Hamas targets. According to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health, 7,300 people have now been killed. However, there are no official figures on the number of victims.