Israel further besieges Gaza. The Israeli army has intensified bombings and ground raids in the strip tonight. The spokesman for Netanyahu’s troops, Daniel Hagari, has assured that “in addition to the attacks carried out in recent days, the ground forces They are expanding their operations tonight“.

The Israeli forces add tension to a territory ravaged by bombs and which this Friday suffered the absolute cut off of all internet and mobile phone services, as indicated by the Internet observatory Netblocks. “Live network data shows connectivity collapse in Gaza Strip (…) amidst reports of heavy bombings,” the observatory has stated. An extreme that has been confirmed on social networks by the Palestinian telecommunications company Jawwal, where it has reported that services have been suspended due to the intense bombings.

Last Wednesday, the Israeli Armed Forces announced the beginning of “selective” raids. That same night, the “greatest scope and depth” to date occurred. On Friday, at dawn, a new incursion with tanks began in the Strip, while including unmanned aerial vehicles and military helicopters which, according to Israeli troops, attacked “dozens of targets” of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).

Already on Thursday, the military spokesman warned that these types of operations are, in reality, a rehearsal for a large ground raid which Israel has been announcing for two weeks, since it gave Gazans 24 hours to move south. However, this major incursion has still not occurred, and the Netanyahu Government avoids commenting on its possible date.

Israel claims Hamas operates under Gaza hospital

Israeli Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari stated this Friday that “Hamas uses Gaza hospitals to keep an entire command and control infrastructure hidden and as a refuge for some terrorists and their commanders.” The soldier has pointed directly to the Al Shifa hospital, the largest in the Strip and located in Gaza Cityas the operations center.

According to the videos, audios and computer recreations provided by Israeli intelligence and presented by Hagari, said infrastructure would consist, according to the Israeli Army, of a complex network of tunnels and rooms in the basement of the hospital in which would have installed a sophisticated command and control center of the Palestinian organization, author of the terrorist attacks against Israel on the 7th in which more than 1,400 people died and more than two hundred were kidnapped and taken to Gaza.

A fact that the Islamist group describes as “as false as it is childish.” The head of the Press Office of the Islamist group in the Strip, Salama Marouf, has assured in an appearance from this same health center that these are statements “So naive that even a sixth grader can make them“. “They are false accusations fabricated by the Israelis that do not constitute valid evidence. “Israeli warplanes and drones have been flying overhead for 20 days and for years before, but they have failed to provide a single piece of evidence to prove that this facility has tunnels and a command center underground,” Marouf insisted.

The Hamas spokesman in Gaza has stated that “these areas are purely medical facilities within the Al Shifa Hospital compound: the emergency unit; the outpatient clinic, which has now been converted into a care center and also a part of it It has been transformed into an operating room for surgery; another area is the intensive care unit, another is the dialysis clinic and the last is the incubator for newborns.” “These are all purely medical facilities, emergency units, intensive care units, baby incubators, dialysis units and “I reiterate that all these medical facilities are operating at 170% of their capacity and occupancy,” stressed the Palestinian spokesperson in Gaza, de facto controlled by Hamas since 2007.

Likewise, Maroufz criticized Israel’s insistence on urging the population of the northern Strip to move south for security reasons and to avoid the impact of the bombings that Israel has been carrying out on the enclave since last day 7.

The number of victims from Israel’s bombings against the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, has risen to 7,326 dead and 18,967 injured, the Gaza Ministry of Health reported this Friday. Marouf was outraged by these calls by the Israeli Army for the population to leave northern Gaza and that “it is another lie to urge the inhabitants of Gaza to move to a safe area. That is, to go south. We thank you for your ethics, but the counterpart is absolute arrogance because, while they order people to go to the south because it is a safe area, they bomb that same safe area. “The Israelis are bombing the south of the Gaza Strip. “More than 65% of the victims killed in southern Gaza are Palestinians who listened to the Israelis’ falsehoods and moved to the south,” insisted the Hamas spokesman in Gaza.

Gaza, on the limit

Meanwhile, Gaza is dying. The UN affirms that the humanitarian aid that has arrived in the region represents “crumbs” to cover their needs, and requires a continuous flow to supply Gazans. The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA) has already lost 57 of its workers due to Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, according to the commissioner of this organization, Philippe Lazzarini, who has called for “a flow of aid meaningful and uninterrupted”

At the start of an appearance in Jerusalem, Lazzarini warned that Palestinians not only risk losing their lives under projectiles launched by the Israel Defense Forces, but also due to the lack of basic supplies such as fuel, food and water or due to a health collapse in which there is hardly any medical care and “The streets have begun to fill with waste.”

Lazzarini accuses Israel of using the blockade – complete since the October 7 attacks – to inflict “collective punishment” on a population of more than 2 million people. “Equating Gaza with Hamas is very dangerous and misleading,” she warned. remembering that in any conflict civilians enjoy special protectionas well as basic facilities or enclaves that may belong to the UN.

“Dehumanizing people” seeks to “make the unjustifiable justifiable,” in his opinion, which is why he has called for putting first the needs of a population that feels “abandoned” and that, although he initially saw the opening of the Rafá border crossing, has ended up confirming that it has hardly been “a distraction.”