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Israel Escalates Aggression in Gaza and West Bank Following International Court of Justice Ruling
Israeli massacres stepped
up in Khan Yunis, January 28, 2024.
Following the provisional order issued by the International Court of Justice on January 26, Israel has stepped up its aggression against the people of Gaza and the West Bank many-fold, news agencies report.
Gaza
Israeli warplanes continued relentless bombardment of the Gaza Strip's southern city of Khan Yunis on January 28. "The entire city of Khan Yunis continues to be pounded by Israeli bombardment. Intense fighting is now taking place in the southeastern part of Khan Yunis at the edges of Rafah city," Al-Jazeera's Hani Mahmoud reported from the southern city of Rafah. Israeli bombing in Gaza killed 165 Palestinians and wounded 290 in 24 hours.
Israeli ground
operations remain focused in the south,
particularly
in Khan Yunis. The city's main hospitals remain besieged by
Israeli
troops. Al-Nasser Hospital, Khan Yunis' largest medical
facility, has
been crippled. "We are trapped inside the hospital on all four
sides,"
the morgue director
at Al-Nasser told Al-Jazeera.
Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades announced the destruction of Israeli tanks and bulldozers and the targeting of troop gatherings in Khan Yunis on January 28. The previous day, Al-Qassam Brigades released footage showing numerous tanks being struck with rocket-propelled grenades.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on January 29 was quoted by The Cradle, an online news magazine from West Asia, saying: "Over half a million Palestinians in Khan Yunis were instructed by the occupying forces to evacuate their homes, including hospitals and health centres, in a cruel expansion and deepening of forced displacement from southern regions." "Scenes of forcibly displaced people are a disgrace to humanity," it added. They are being pushed towards the border city of Rafah, where tens of thousands of Gazans are stranded after being displaced from several areas of the strip since the start of the war, The Cradle noted.
West Bank
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) escalated military raids across several communities of the occupied West Bank on January 29, killing five Palestinians including a child. IOF forces raided Ramallah, Bethlehem, Jenin and Dura and fired live bullets, as well as rubber-coated metal bullets, stun grenades and gas.
Resistance fighters fought fiercely and launched attacks against the occupation forces using improvised explosive devices during the IOF incursion into the town of Yamoun. The occupation forces also stormed the village of Deir Abu Da'if, east of Jenin, where they were confronted with a hail of bullets. The IOF arrested two young men after raiding their homes in the village.
The IOF conducted a wide military campaign in Jenin on the night of January 28, carrying out extensive destruction of infrastructure, public facilities, and citizens' property. The resistance bravely confronted the invading IOF soldiers. The occupation forces entered the city through Nasera Street, reinforced by more than 20 military vehicles, including four military D9 bulldozers, followed by additional reinforcements of vehicles. At the same time, sirens were activated in Jenin and its refugee camp. The resistance confronted the IOF incursion, leading to armed clashes and the detonation of locally-made explosive devices against the IOF troops.
Fierce battles broke out in Nablus, as the occupation forces invaded the city and the refugee camps of Askar Al-Jadeed and Balata. They stationed themselves in several areas, including Martyrs' Square in the city centre, Habla neighbourhood, the eastern market, and the vicinity of the refugee camps. Resistance fighters fired at the IOF soldiers as they withdrew from the Old City, and they targeted the occupation forces with a hail of bullets during their withdrawal from Balata and Askar camps.
Intense clashes, including the use of homemade explosive devices took place against the IOF invaders in the vicinity of the refugee camps of Askar Al-Jadeed and Balata, east of Nablus. An armed clash also broke out between resistance fighters and the occupation forces on Schools Street in Balata camp.
This article was published in
Volume 54
Number 8 - January 31, 2024
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