30 December 2023
The United Nations says about 1.5 million Palestinians are being forced to flee the refugee camps in central Gaza as Israeli forces move into them.
1.Israeli military attack
Eyewitnesses and the armed wing of Hamas reported that Israeli tanks moved towards the eastern part of the Buraij refugee camp.
The Israel military has recently expanded its ground operations, mainly targeting Buraiz and the neighboring Nuseirat and Maghazi refugee camps.
The Hamas-run health ministry said several people killed across Gaza on Thursday in Israeli bombardments.
The war began on October 7 following a cross-border attack by Hamas gunmen in southern Israel. The attack killed 1,200 people, most of whom were civilians. Besides, 240 people taken hostage.
2.last 11 weeks of the war
According to the Ministry of Health, 21,300 people, mostly women and children, have killed in Gaza in the last 11 weeks of the war.
The Israel military announced the evacuation of a wide area of the valley. These areas include the Buraij and Nuseirat refugee camps in central Gaza. About 90,000 of the area and 61,000 homeless residents have told to move to the southern city of Deir al-Balah.
Meanwhile, the United Nations warned on Thursday that they have nowhere to go because Deir al-Balah is already full to the brim. Thousands of displaced people have taken shelter there.
Omar, 60, said he forced to flee Buraij camp with at least 35 other members of his family.
3.Israeli airstrikes
“The time has come; I thought it would never happen, but it seems displacement is inevitable,” he told Reuters by phone. “We are now living in a tent in Deir al-Balah because of this brutal Israeli war.”
Tom White, the UN aid agency UNRWA’s Gaza director, said more people being pushed towards the town of Rafah in southern Gaza. “That means more people are coming into a very small valley that it can’t hold.”
On Thursday evening, Gaza’s health ministry said 20 people killed in an Israeli airstrike on a building in Rafah. Displaced residents took shelter in that building.
4.People are leaving the center of Gaza.
At least 50 Palestinians people killed in an Israeli airstrike in the city of Maghazi, Gaza’s health ministry spokesman announced Thursday morning. The city is located north of Beit Lahia and south of Khan Yunis.
The worst incident occurred in Beit Lahiya. Palestinian media say at least 30 people were killed when four residential buildings were destroyed there.
Palestinians Local television
Local television journalist Basel Kheir al-Din told The Associated Press that 12 members of his family trapped under the rubble of one of the buildings and were all presumed dead. Besides, their neighbors are also missing.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said nine people killed in Israeli shelling at a residential building near al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis. Another similar incident took place in front of this hospital the day before, in which around 31 people died.
Israeli Defense Forces
Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the chief spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces, told reporters on Wednesday that the city was “a major center of terrorist activity by Hamas.”
He said that the Israeli army is fighting in the Bureiz area for the third day. He added that they were “destroying many terrorists and terrorist infrastructures.”
news agency
Palestinians Residents told the Reuters news agency that heavy fighting continued on Thursday. Israeli tanks are entering the densely populated Buraij camp from the north and east. Hamas posted a video showing Hamas fighters targeting Israeli troops and vehicles.
The IDF, on the other hand, said it regretted the “civilian casualties” during Sunday’s airstrikes in Maghaji.
Thousands of teenagers took part in a protest in Israel demanding new steps to return hundreds of hostages still held by Hamas and other armed groups in Gaza. Many of them are members of the communities most affected by the October 7 attacks.
“I’m from Kibbutz Kafar Aza,” Shiri Khiali told the BBC. “I was there on the seventh day of October.We want them back. We want them back now.”
5.Israeli youth protested in Jerusalem demanding the release of hostages.
Negotiations are underway for a new contract. Under the deal, a temporary cease-fire would allow more hostages to be rescued. Last month, 105 hostages were rescued under one such deal. However, Hamas has already stated publicly that it will only negotiate a full ceasefire.
Separately, a new call came from UN human rights chief Volker Turk, who called on Israel to stop “unlawful” killings in the occupied West Bank.
According to a report, the United Nations has verified the deaths of 300 Palestinians at the hands of West Bank residents and Israeli forces since October 7.
A spokesman for the Israeli prime minister dismissed the report as “ridiculous” and said it would downplay a major security threat to Israelis.
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