Significant incursion comes as EU leaders finalise text calling for ‘humanitarian corridors and pauses’
Israeli infantry backed by tanks and armoured bulldozers have attacked Hamas targets in an hours-long overnight ground raid into the northern Gaza Strip, as officials raised the number of hostages confirmed to be held by the militant Islamist group to 224.to get urgently needed aid into Gaza, according to the final draft of a text to be approved at a summit in Brussels on Thursday.
The Israeli military claims it only strikes militant targets and accuses Hamas of operating among civilians in densely populated Gaza. Palestinian militants have fired rocket barrages into Israel since the war began.“I cannot say when, how or how many, nor all the elements that we are taking into account, of which most are not known to the public,” he said.
The raid took place as Israel carried out strikes on about 250 locations overnight, including one by the Israeli navy on what it said was a ground-to-air missile launchers near Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. “Many of the hostages, including children, women and the elderly, have pre-existing health conditions requiring urgent and sustained care and treatment. The mental health trauma that the abducted, and the families, are facing is acute and psychosocial support is of great importance,” said the WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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