The Israeli army intensified its bombing of the northern Gaza Strip on the eighteenth day of the war against the Islamist group Hamas. including areas still heavily populated by civilians, while the Israeli army and militias in southern Lebanon continue to exchange fire.

In the last hours, “The IDF attacked more than 400 terrorist targets” in the Gaza Strip, an Israeli army spokesman said, assuring that the troops carried out a “large-scale operation.”

“Dozens of Hamas militants who were preparing to launch rockets and carry out terrorist attacks against Israeli lines came under attack. Over the past 24 hours, fighter jets have attacked dozens of Hamas terrorist infrastructures and bases of operations in Shujaiya, Shati, Jabaliya, Daraj Tuffa and Zaitoun districts,” he added.

Israeli airstrikes reached tunnel that led to Hamas militias rapid access to the coast, as well as command centers and gathering places located in mosques used by Hamas, he added.

It was one of the worst nights for the residents of Gaza City and its environs, which were unable or unwilling to evacuate despite the ongoing attacks, which this Tuesday are expected to add to the official list of more than 5,200 dead and more than 15,200 people in the entire sector, 70% of whom are children. women and the elderly, according to Gaza authorities.

Between vast areas reduced to ruins and more than a million displaced people, Civilians in the Palestinian enclave are suffering extremely harsh living conditions due to Israel’s complete blockade of water, food, medicine and electricity supplies, which has led to the destruction of hospitals and outbreaks of diseases such as scabies, smallpox and gastrointestinal infections.

Hospital in the city of Beit Lahiya, north of the Gaza Strip. officially without electricity Since yesterday evening, due to the depletion of fuel needed to run the electrical generators inside, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

The Israeli army ordered evacuation of civilians from the entire northern territory of the sector to the south, which is impossible for many families who are sick, disabled or have no means of transport due to lack of fuel.

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Except, The south of the sector was also bombed. while humanitarian aid arrives in crumbs and does not include the fuel needed to run hospital generators,

Meanwhile, anti-missile sirens continue to sound in Israeli cities surrounding the Gaza Strip due to Hamas launches, as well as in northern Israel, where the war began on October 7 The firefight with the Shiite group Hezbollah intensified.

“The army attacked facilities belonging to the terrorist organization Hezbollah. Among them are a military complex, a military post and an observation post,” said an army spokesman, assuring that these attacks “were carried out in response to missile and anti-tank missile launches from Lebanese territory.”

All this is happening while the French President Emmanuel Macron, is in Israel for the purpose of de-escalation.

According to the Israeli government, 22 French killed, three missing following Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel on October 7, which included the launch of rockets and the simultaneous infiltration of militias who tortured and killed more than a thousand residents of villages surrounding the Gaza Strip and kidnapped more than 200 people.

(EFE)