April 18, 2024
Gaza's
Government Media Office says 100 people went missing during the violent
incursion, while civil defense reports that many are still under the rubble
Seventy-five
people were killed and 348 people were wounded in an Israeli operation on
central Gaza’s Al-Nuseirat camp, Gaza’s Government Media Office said on 17
April.
It added that
100 people went missing during the Israeli operation and that 13,000 housing
units were destroyed.
The Israeli army
withdrew from central Gaza’s Al-Nuseirat camp on 17 April following a week-long
incursion, leaving behind a massive trail of destruction.
"This comes
within the framework of the genocide being waged by the Israeli army against
Palestinian civilians, which the U.S. administration supports and participates
in,” the media office added in its statement.
“Several victims
were retrieved by civil defense teams, while many others are still under the
rubble,” Gaza’s civil defense said on Thursday.
Throughout the
operation, heavy Israeli airstrikes targeted the camp and its vicinity.
The withdrawal
from the Nuseirat area came the same day that Israeli forces withdrew from the
city of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip following a 36-hour operation.
Israeli troops
pushed into Beit Hanoun on 16 April, coinciding with a surge in airstrikes on
the southern city of Rafah and the killing and wounding of several civilians.
The army besieged schools where displaced Palestinians were sheltering,
detaining several throughout the incursion.
Israeli
bombardment also persisted across Gaza’s southern city of Rafah, killing and
wounding several.
Israel claims
Rafah is Hamas’ final stronghold – despite the group being entrenched across
several areas of Gaza along with other resistance factions. Israel has been
planning an operation in the city, posing the threat of a severe humanitarian
catastrophe. The US has attempted to mold Israel’s planned invasion of Rafah
into more limited and surgical operations and has urged Tel Aviv to develop a
plan to evacuate more than one million Palestinians there.
Al-Araby
al-Jadeed reported on 18 April, citing Egyptian sources and a western diplomat,
that Washington has greenlighted Israeli plans for an invasion of Gaza’s
southern city of Rafah in exchange for Israel limiting its response to the
Iranian operation last weekend.
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