The Israeli army pressed on with its bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, signaling that the passing of a United Nations decision calling for a cease-fire for the holy month of Ramadan the day earlier than had not shaken Israel’s dedication to maintain combating.
The army mentioned its fighter jets had struck “over 60 targets” in Gaza over the day past. It added that its forces have been additionally working in central Gaza, the place it mentioned they’d killed “a variety of terrorists.” The army additionally mentioned on Tuesday that it had confirmed the dying of a senior Hamas chief. Wafa, the Palestinian Authority’s information company, mentioned Tuesday that the Israeli army had struck residential properties and buildings and that dozens of individuals have been killed.
In an announcement, the Israeli army added that it was persevering with its “operational exercise” round Al-Amal Hospital and the city of Al-Qarara, within the Khan Younis space of southern Gaza, including that its forces have been “eliminating terrorists and finishing up focused raids on terrorist infrastructure.”
Al-Amal Hospital went out of service on Monday night time after Israeli forces besieged it a day earlier and compelled everybody inside to depart earlier than closing off its entrances with earthen limitations, in line with the Palestine Pink Crescent Society, which runs the hospital. The group mentioned on Monday that two folks had been killed and three others wounded when Israeli forces opened fireplace as they have been being evacuated.
The Israeli army additionally mentioned on Tuesday that it was urgent on with its assault on Al-Shifa Hospital within the north for a ninth day. It mentioned its forces there had “situated weapons, and engaged with and eradicated a number of terrorists within the hospital space.” Witnesses have described days of worry on the advanced, with a number of sufferers dying because of the assault.
Ezzeldine al-Dali, who lives lower than a mile from Al-Shifa, mentioned airstrikes and gunfire had intensified within the space on Monday night time, earlier than calming down on Tuesday morning, which residents took as an indication that Israeli forces had concluded their raid.
He mentioned folks he knew went to the hospital considering the raid was over, however “they have been improper,” and other people have been shot and wounded. His account couldn’t be independently verified. The Israeli army mentioned it was checking into it.
Israel has lengthy accused Hamas, the armed group that led an assault into southern Israel on Oct. 7, of utilizing hospitals in Gaza for army functions, a declare that Hamas and hospital directors have denied.
An evaluation by The New York Occasions discovered that Hamas had used the Shifa advanced for army functions. The Israeli army, nevertheless, has struggled to show its declare that Hamas maintained a command-and-control middle underneath it.
In a information convention on Tuesday, a army spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, mentioned that Israel had killed Marwan Issa, the deputy commander of Hamas’s army wing in Gaza, in a focused strike.
Admiral Hagari mentioned on March 11 that Israel had focused Mr. Issa, a presumed planner of the Oct. 7 assaults, and one other official. The US had confirmed him lifeless final week, making him the senior-most Hamas chief to be killed in Gaza for the reason that begin of the battle.
Although a U.N. decision had handed, Mr. al-Dali, 22, mentioned it didn’t give him or these round him any hope that the Israeli bombardment would cease quickly. “We’ve got misplaced hope in each means,” he mentioned in a cellphone name on Tuesday.
“The Worldwide Court docket of Justice, Biden and all of the Arab and Western nations couldn’t cease Israel,” mentioned Mr. al-Dali. “So why would the United Nations have the ability to cease them?”
The Worldwide Court docket of Justice in late January ordered Israel to make sure that its actions wouldn’t result in genocide, and to extend humanitarian assist to Gaza. However the courtroom didn’t order a halt to combating within the Gaza Strip.
Wafa reported on Tuesday that dozens of Palestinians had been killed in an Israeli strike on a household house close to Al-Shifa, citing medical sources. It didn’t specify the timing. The company additionally reported that the Israeli army had struck different residential properties and buildings round Al-Shifa and fired on folks shifting on the roads across the hospital, killing and wounding dozens.
The Palestinian information company additionally reported Israeli strikes within the northwest of Gaza Metropolis, the northern group of Beit Lahia and the southern metropolis of Rafah, the place it reported {that a} house the place displaced households have been residing was struck, killing greater than a dozen Palestinians and wounding dozens extra.
These reviews couldn’t be independently verified, and the Israeli army didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon them.
Aaron Boxerman contributed reporting.
