Gaza Gamble
Israel’s leadership is once again contemplating a major military escalation in Gaza, this time with the stated aim of taking full control of Gaza City and the central refugee camps.
Israel’s leadership is once again contemplating a major military escalation in Gaza, this time with the stated aim of taking full control of Gaza City and the central refugee camps.
The security sources told Xinhua news agency on Monday that most of the hospital buildings were destroyed, burned, and attacked by the Israeli army, which turned the hospital out of service.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has said that it had killed several senior Hamas operatives in Gaza including Khamis Dababash, former intelligence chief of the group.
The Israeli Army has asked the civilian population in Gaza city to relocate to southern Gaza to avoid civilian casualties and has opened the road to southern strip for a few hours on Monday and Tuesday.
The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has vowed to reach a prisoners' swap deal with Israel to release the Palestinians imprisoned in Israeli jails.
Tens of thousands of Gazans gathered at the Israeli border Sunday to mark a year since protests and clashes erupted there, but fears of mass bloodshed were averted after late Egyptian-led negotiations.
