[News] Fierce clashes in Gaza's Jabalia as Qassam, Quds Brigades repel Israeli invasion

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 Fierce clashes in Gaza's Jabalia as Qassam, Quds Brigades repel
Israeli invasion

Israel seeks to implement reservist general Giora Eiland's plan to forcibly
expel all Palestinians from northern Gaza

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OCT 7, 2024 -
https://thecradle.co/articles/fierce-clashes-in-gazas-jabalia-as-qassam-quds-brigades-repel-israeli-invasion
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said it received "horrific reports"
from Jabalia camp (Photo credit: Reuters)

The Palestinian resistance continues to battle Israeli troops in the
Jabalia camp in northern Gaza on 7 October, as Israel continues its
massacre and ethnic cleansing of the remaining 300,000 Palestinians in the
north of the enclave.

On Monday, at least 10 Palestinians were killed and several wounded after
Israeli artillery shelled a group of people near Abu Qamar station in
Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

The *Jerusalem Post* reported
<https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-823471> Sunday that the
Israeli army seeks to expel tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians from
northern Gaza amid the Jabalia invasion, its fourth invasion of the camp
since the start of the Israel–Hamas War.

A group of hundreds of mid-level reservist officers, led by former National
Security Council chief Giora Eiland, have been pushing in recent months for
a “complete evacuation of northern Gaza” to achieve the desired pressure on
Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar to surrender.

The *Post* said that “Sunday's move by the IDF appeared to be an in-between
position of moving a significant portion of the 150,000–250,000 Palestinian
civilians out of northern Gaza without going 'all the way' with the Eiland
plan.”

“Alternatively, the move could be a prelude toward a gradual and creeping
evacuation of all of northern Gaza, but in a slower motion in order to
reduce global opposition, especially by the US,” the* Post *added.

Members of Israel's Jewish settler community have been pushing
<https://new.thecradle.co/articles/rebuilding-gush-katif-the-scheme-to-return-jewish-settlers-to-gaza>
for years for a war on Gaza to ethnically cleanse the strip of its 2.3
Palestinian inhabitants, annex it to Israel, and build Jewish settlements
on the ruins of the destroyed Palestinian homes and cities.

Meanwhile, Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad
(PIJ), announced its fighters were engaged in armed clashes with an Israeli
infantry unit that attempted to infiltrate the Block 2 area in the Jabalia
camp.

The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said its fighters were
engaged in “fierce clashes at zero distance with enemy forces penetrating
west of Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, killing and wounding many
of them.”

The group announced it had targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with an
artillery shell in the Al-Qassasib area in the middle of Jabalia camp and
had launched rockets at Israeli settlements surrounding Gaza, including
Sderot, Nir Am, and others.

The Israeli army began its renewed assault on Jabalia Saturday evening by
encircling the camp and issuing evacuation orders for all Palestinians in
northern Gaza, including Gaza City.

On Sunday, an Israeli strike killed
<https://www.npr.org/2024/10/06/g-s1-26576/israel-bombards-northern-gaza-and-southern-beirut>
19 people in a Mosque in Jabalia, as well as 19-year-old journalist Hassan
Hamad, in a targeted drone strike on his home. According to Palestinian
journalist Maha Hussaini, Hamad had received threats from the Israeli
military in the days before his death.
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