The Israeli Army maintains heavy fighting with the Islamist group Hamas in the north of Gaza, while continuing its offensive in the south of the Palestinian Strip.
Israeli forces reported this Saturday intense clashes in Gaza City, in the north of the Palestinian enclave, where their troops faced "a terrorist cell" in the area of a school in the Shejaiya neighborhood.
"There were exchanges of fire in which all the terrorists in the cell died" and the troops located AK-47 rifles, grenades and ammunition "inside the classrooms," according to a military statement.
Israel repeatedly accuses the Islamist group Hamas of using educational and medical centers, among other civilian facilities, to hide.
Furthermore, in that Gaza neighborhood, Israeli ground troops attacked a tunnel that "was part of an extensive underground route," where they found "numerous weapons and an elevator," according to this source.
Likewise, "they identified several terrorists armed with anti-tank missiles who were approaching the troops in the area," so they asked a helicopter to attack, preventing them from opening fire on the Israeli troops, he added.
The Israeli Army highlighted that in the Beit Hanoun area, also in the north of the Strip, it attacked "terrorists who fired from a UNRWA school - the UN agency for Palestinian refugees - and a mosque."
Likewise, Israeli naval troops attacked infrastructure and vessels "used for terrorist purposes," according to the statement.
More than a hundred people died and more than two hundred were injured in the last few hours in different parts of Gaza due to attacks by the Israeli Army, reported the Ministry of Health in the Strip, controlled by Hamas.
While fighting in the north of Gaza, the Israeli Army is trying to control Khan Yunis in the south, which it considers Hamas' "stronghold" in the Strip, in its offensive against the Islamist group.
Since the outbreak of the conflict, on October 7, in Gaza there have been at least 17,620 confirmed deaths in the enclave, according to data from the Gaza ministry, and at least 46,739 injured.
The war broke out after a Hamas attack on Israel that day, which caused more than 1,200 deaths and the capture of at least 240 people, taken hostage to Gaza.
There are almost 1.9 million internally displaced people in Gaza, around 80% of its population of some 2.3 million inhabitants, with a serious humanitarian crisis.
A young Palestinian died this Saturday in the occupied West Bank from shots fired by the Israeli Army, while another died as a result of injuries suffered the day before in clashes with Israeli forces, as reported by the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). ).
Sari Youssef Amr, 25, died after being shot several times "during the assault on his house" by Israeli forces who came to arrest him. The official Palestinian agency, Wafa, which cites security sources, detailed that the young man was "arrested while he was bleeding without providing him with first aid," along with his brother, Suhaib, 23 years old.
On Friday, six Palestinians, including a minor, died in the West Bank in clashes with Israeli forces in the Al-Faraa refugee camp. Added to them this Saturday was the death of Rami Jamal Al-Jandab, 25, due to the gunshot wounds he suffered the day before in the camp, according to the ministry.
The occupied West Bank is experiencing its greatest spiral of violence since the Second Intifada (2000-05) and in 2023 some 481 Palestinians have already died, the highest number in more than 20 years. Most died in armed clashes with Israeli troops, although many were civilians and more than a hundred were minors.
