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<div class="gmail-inner-article-top"><h1 class="gmail-">Israeli troops bombard, besiege northern Gaza as 'generals' plan' unfolds</h1><p class="gmail-">Israel
issued evacuation orders for all of northern Gaza overnight in an
effort to complete the ethnic cleansing of the remaining 300,000
civilians there</p><div class="gmail-another-name"><p><a href="https://thecradle.co/authors/news-desk-9" style="color:rgb(164,4,4)">News Desk</a></p></div><div class="gmail-another-name" style="margin-top:16px"><p><span>OCT 6, 2024 -<font size="1"> </font></span><font size="1"><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-troops-bombard-besiege-northern-gaza-as-generals-plan-unfolds">https://thecradle.co/articles/israeli-troops-bombard-besiege-northern-gaza-as-generals-plan-unfolds</a></font></p></div></div><div class="gmail-inner-article-img"><img src="http://thecradle-main.oss-eu-central-1.aliyuncs.com/public/articles/8a0dbca0-83c3-11ef-9036-00163e02c055.jpeg" alt="" width="435" height="245" style="margin-right: 0px;"><span><font size="1">IDF troops operate in northern Gaza's Jabaliya, in a handout photo published May 31, 2024. (Photo credit: Israel Defense Forces)</font></span></div><div class="gmail-inner-article-content"><div class="gmail-row"><div class="gmail-col-md-8 gmail-col-sm-7"><div class="gmail-article-content"><span><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">The
Israeli military is carrying out a major military operation in Jabalia
camp in Gaza as part of a broader operation to forcibly expel the
remaining 300,000 Palestinians in northern Gaza to so-called
humanitarian zones in the south of the enclave.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">The Israeli military </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-launches-new-ground-op-in-north-gazas-jabaliya-to-foil-hamas-efforts-to-regroup/"><span style="color:rgb(74,110,224)">said</span></a><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">
troops from the 162nd Division’s 401st and 460th armored brigades
encircled Jabalia camp overnight and were operating in the area
“following intelligence on Hamas operatives and infrastructure,
alongside efforts by the terror group to regroup there.”</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">The
siege on Jabalia follows a night of heavy Israeli airstrikes and
artillery shelling on northern and central Gaza, killing dozens,
including a strike on a mosque sheltering displaced people in Deir
al-Balah early Sunday that killed at least 19 people, Palestinian
officials </span><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/apparent-israeli-airstrike-mosque-central-gaza-kills-18-114536057"><span style="color:rgb(74,110,224)">said</span></a><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">The overnight bombing and shelling was likened by residents to the bombing carried out at the start of the war on Gaza.</span></p><div class="gmail-twitter-tweet gmail-twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display:flex;max-width:550px;width:100%;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px"></div> <p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">Israel
claimed the strikes targeted dozens of Hamas sites in Jabalia,
including weapon depots, tunnels, cells of operatives, and other
infrastructure.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">“The
operation will continue as long as necessary while systematically
striking and thoroughly destroying the terror infrastructure in the
area,” the Israeli military said.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">The operation marked the fourth invasion of Jabalia by the army since the start of the war a year ago.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">Amid
the invasion and siege of Jabalia, the army issued evacuation orders to
civilians from the entire north of Gaza, including Gaza City, telling
them to flee south to the so-called humanitarian zone of Al-Muwasi near
Khan Yunis.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">The army
demanded that Palestinians evacuate on the two main roads leading south,
Salahuddin Street in the center of the strip and Rashid Road on the
coast.</span></p><div class="gmail-twitter-tweet gmail-twitter-tweet-rendered" style="display:flex;max-width:550px;width:100%;margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px"></div> <p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">Some 300,000 Palestinians remain in Gaza’s north and have </span><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-gaza-north-civilians-ordered-evacuate-south"><span style="color:rgb(74,110,224)">refused</span></a><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)"> to obey multiple Israeli orders to abandon their homes in over a year of war.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">Ministry
of Interior and National Security in the Gaza Strip issued a statement
Sunday telling Palestinians in north Gaza not to obey Israeli threats
and to move to the nearest neighboring residential area until the danger
has passed so they can return to their homes as soon as possible.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">“We
affirm the falsehood of the occupation’s claims regarding the existence
of safe areas in the southern Gaza Strip, as all governorates of the
Strip are under attack, and the occupation is committing crimes and
massacres against citizens in all areas without exception, including the
tents of the displaced,” the statement said.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">Israel’s
latest push to empty northern Gaza appears to be an effort to
ethnically cleanse northern Gaza and starve anyone, including civilians
and Hamas fighters, remaining by imposing a total siege on the area.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">On 23 September, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu </span><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles-id/26972"><span style="color:rgb(74,110,224)">said</span></a><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">
that he was considering the so-called “generals’ plan” to lay total
siege to northern Gaza and expel all its Palestinian residents.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">When
retired major general Giora Eiland presented the plan one week before,
he claimed it would “change the reality” on the ground in Gaza.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">“We
have to tell the residents of north Gaza that they have one week to
evacuate the territory, which then becomes a military zone, [a zone] in
which every figure is a target and, most importantly, no supplies enter
this territory.”</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">The remaining civilians and Hamas fighters would then be forced to surrender or starve, according to the plan.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">Eiland
was the former director of the National Security Council and former
head of the Planning Department of the Israel Defense Forces.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">Israel’s
religious settler movement seeks to empty northern Gaza of its
residents and destroy their homes so that Jewish Israelis can establish
settlements in their place.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">In May, a coalition of Israeli settler groups enjoying government funding held a </span><a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231218-as-genocide-unfolds-israel-settlers-plan-dream-beach-house-in-gaza/"><span style="color:rgb(74,110,224)">conference</span></a><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)"> to discuss a “practical” plan to build the first Jewish settlements in Gaza.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(14,16,26)">Harey
Zahav, an Israeli real estate firm notorious for constructing illegal
settlements in the Occupied West Bank, unveiled a plan for building
homes for Jewish settlers in Gaza. “A house on the beach is not a
dream!” the firm’s advertisement stated.</span></p><p>Israel's genocide
on Palestinians in Gaza since 7 October last year has killed 41,870
people, the majority women and children, according to the health
ministry. Other <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-health-workers-back-from-gaza-estimate-death-toll-is-at-least-119000/">estimates</a> are much higher.</p></span></div></div></div></div>
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