The Israel Defense Forces have killed over thirty people in a bombing of the al-Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, as violence has also escalated on Israel’s northern boundary with Lebanon and IDF troops complete their encirclement of Gaza City.
“Israeli bombardment intensified across the Gaza Strip on Sunday evening, as all internet and communications were cut off in the besieged enclave for the third time since the war began a month ago.
Several of those attacks focused on Gaza City and its surrounding area, according to media reports.
Israeli shelling also took place in northern Gaza, near the Indonesian Hospital as well as the Jabalia refugee camp, Al Jazeera reported.
In the refugee camp, strikes targeted and destroyed the main water source, in an apparent attempt to cut all sources of survival for civilians and force them to leave to the south.
Israel has ordered more than one million Palestinians in the north to move south, but has repeatedly bombed areas in the southern Gaza Strip, as well as targeting roads linking the north and south.
At the same time as the bombings, all internet and communications in the besieged Gaza Strip were cut for the third time.
‘We regret to announce a complete disruption of all communication and internet services within the Gaza Strip, due to the main routes, which had been recently reconnected, being disconnected once again by the Israeli side’, Palestinian telecommunications company Paltel said in a statement on Facebook.
Elsewhere on Sunday, an Israeli strike on a car near Bint Jbeil, in southern Lebanon, killed three children and their grandmother, according to Lebanese media and lawmakers.
Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib told Reuters that Beirut was collecting information and pictures and would likely submit a complaint to the United Nations on Monday”. -Middle East Eye
Not only did Israel's 36th Division penetrate further into Gaza precisely as the Israel Defense Forces indicated that their troops were planning to enter Gaza City in force within the upcoming days, but the intensified fighting on two fronts has come alongside U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas amid increasing pressure from the U.S. to try to bring about “humanitarian pauses”.