A photo taken from southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on Monday reveals smoke rippling over the Palestinian area following Israeli barrage. GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES): Israel has moved ground forces into the south of Gaza in its war on Hamas, witnesses stated Monday, inspiteof worldwide issue over installing civilian deaths and fears the dispute will spread inotherplaces in the Middle East. Dozens of Israeli tanks as well as armoured workers providers and bulldozers gotin the south of the area near the city of Khan Yunis, which is crowded with internally displaced Palestinians, witnesses informed AFP. Amin Abu Hawli, 59, stated the Israeli lorries were “two kilometres (1.2 miles) inside” Gaza in the town of al-Qarara, while Moaz Mohammed, 34, stated Israeli tanks were rolling down the strip’s primary north-south highway, the Salah al-Din roadway. Weeks after Israel sentout ground forces and tanks into northern Gaza, the army hasactually been air-dropping brochures in the besieged area’s south, particularly around Khan Yunis, informing Palestinians there to leave to other locations. The army “continues to broaden its ground operation versus primary Hamas fronts in the Gaza Strip,” Israeli Defense Forces representative Daniel Hagari stated Sunday. “Wherever there is a Hamas fortress, the IDF runs.” Full-scale battling resumed Friday after the collapse of a week-long truce brokered by Qatar, the United States and Egypt, throughout which Israel and Hamas had exchanged ratings of captives and detainees. Air strikes have giventhat magnified in Gaza’s south, stated James Elder, a spokesperson for the United Nations kids’s company UNICEF. “Despite what hasactually been ensured, attacks in the south of Gaza are every bit as vicious as what the north withstood,” he published Monday on X, previously Twitter. “Somehow, it’s getting evenworse for kids and moms.” Israel has promised to crush Hamas in retaliation for the Islamist militant group’s October 7 attacks that eliminated about 1,200 individuals, primarily civilians, and saw 240 captives taken, according to Israeli authorities. Israel’s military stated Sunday it had brought out around 10,000 air strikes in overall, while Gaza militants had resumed rocket salvos into Israel, most of which hadactually been obstructed. The Hamas-run health ministry states more than 15,500 individuals haveactually been eliminated in Gaza, about 70 percent of them ladies and kids — a death toll that has triggered international alarm and mass presentation
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