Lt Gen Herzi Halevi also says Israeli troops are operating inside city ‘fighting in close quarters’
Israel’s top military commander has said his country’s forces have surrounded Gaza City on three sides and that Israeli troops are operating inside the city.
Israel and Hezbollah continued to exchange fire on Thursday across the Lebanese border, with a rocket fired fromhitting a house in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona. Hezbollah also claimed it has used two drones to target Israeli forces. Officials on both sides of the border expected about 400 people to cross on Thursday, with ambulances lined up in expectation of ferrying dozens of casualties to Egyptian hospitals, AFP reported.after more than three weeks of brutal conflict. The evacuees included 31 Austrians, four Italians, five French nationals and several Germans, their governments said.has flowed into Gaza from Rafah since the conflict began but until this week no one was allowed to leave the territory.
The current conflict began on 7 October when Hamas launched an onslaught on southern Israel that killed more than 1,400 people and swept up hundreds more as hostages. The current Israeli estimate of the number of hostages is 242. The White House has previously called for “humanitarian pauses” to facilitate aid and evacuations but opposed a ceasefire as benefiting Hamas. Blinken was to hold talks in Israel on Friday and visit nearby countries to seek “urgent mechanisms” to reduce regional tensions, his office said.
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