Israeli tanks have entered several neighborhoods in the city of Gaza in the last 24 hours, journalists working for CNN in the city relating about intense bombing, explosions and firearms.
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Tuesday's geolocalized images show tanks in the west of the largest city of the territory, in an area known as Beach Camp.
Tanks were also filmed south of Islamic University on Monday, indicating that Israeli forces have penetrated deeper into the city of Gaza since the launch of the terrestrial attack on Sunday.
The Israeli army ordered the inhabitants and displays to evacuate the city earlier this month. It is estimated that about one million people were in the city of Gaza at that time. The Israeli army told CNN on Tuesday that 640,000 people left the city in the meantime. The information cannot be verified, writes CNN.
As they take control of a larger part of the city of Gaza, the Israeli units detonate armored vehicles loaded with explosives to put buildings to the ground, according to CNN's geolocalized videos and images. Israel's defense forces (IDF) have told CNN that “Hamas transforms such buildings into combat areas, which they use for ambushs, control and control centers, weapons, fighter tunnels, observation posts” and other uses.
The first victim of Israel at the beginning of the terrestrial offensive
IDF announced on Tuesday that an officer was killed during battles in Gaza, Monday. This is Major Shahar Netanel Bozaglo, 27 years old.
According to a preliminary investigation by IDF, Bozaglo was killed after a Hamas agent launched a grenade on one of his battalion tanks.
Residents and reporters witnessed a strong presence of drones on the sky of Gaza, as well as Israeli attack helicopters.
“Lately, each explosion has been perceived as an earthquake, not as a metaphor, but as a literal shaking of the Earth below us,” wrote on Tuesday, X, ASEM Alnabih, spokesman for Gaza.
The IDF attack on one of the most populated areas of Gaza, with three armored divisions, has aroused broad -scale criticisms in the country and abroad.
In Israel, the families of the hostages remaining in the gas say that the operation puts their lives even more. It is believed that about 20 hostages are still alive. Many European governments, as well as Canada and Australia, have condemned the operation, considering that this leads to the aggravation of the humanitarian crisis in the besieged enclum.
Despite the exodus, hundreds of thousands of people are still in the city of Gaza, powerless or refusing to leave south, according to the orders of the Israeli army.
Abu Wissam-who lost his house and son and sleeps on the streets-told CNN: “If I had money to evacuate and rent a place of accommodation … I would leave. But now gangs appeared in the south who ask people to sleep on the streets.”
“Everyone has to die, he will die, here or in the south, our fate will be fulfilled wherever we are,” he said desperately.
Closed hospitals
Few functional medical units cannot cope with what the International Red Cross Committee described as “astronomical levels” in Gaza city on Tuesday.
On Monday, two hospitals in the city of Gaza, Al-Caraisi Children's Hospital and the specialized ophthalmological hospital, have closed and evacuated their patients, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Saya Aziz, a British-Australian doctor of Al-Shifa Hospital, said she has nothing to treat patients' wounds. Taking a crying baby in his arms, she told CNN: “Look at the dressing, look that there is nothing to clean with … How does this baby survive?”
Even if he was able to transfer patients from the city of Gaza, Aziz says there is nothing to be needed there: “I was in the south, they have nothing, there is nothing.”
Medical aid for Palestinians (MAP), an NGO working in Gaza, said on Tuesday that Al-Quds Hospital has undergone intense bombing on Tal Al-Hawa. A video recording filmed on Monday from the hospital showed the streets around them completely deserted.
A medical center administered by the Palestinian society of medical aid (PMRS) was also destroyed, the MAP said.
The Israeli office initially set October 7 – the second anniversary of Hamas attacks on Israel – as a deadline for evacuating Gaza and taking over by IDF. But the former inhabitants of the area say that establishing full control on the narrow streets of the city will be difficult.
The action of Israel has caused several governments to recognize a Palestinian state. In recent days, France, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and Portugal were among the governments that took this step.
Israel has condemned recognition as a reward for terrorism. But French President Emmanuel Macron told a conference on the United Nations on Monday that the recognition of a Palestinian state is “the only solution that will allow Israel to live in peace”, while qualifying this decision as a “defeat for Hamas”.
