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The Israeli military attack on the Gaza Strip continued for the fourth day, as its ground forces expanded its operations in the north and south of Gaza, and the Israeli Defense Minister threatened to seize the ground in the coastal pocket.

Israel Defense Minister Katz said on Friday that the Israeli forces “will increase” the military campaign against Hamas and use “all military and civil pressure, including the evacuation of Gaza residents in the south and the implementation of the migration of the President of the United States, Trump Voluntary President Plans For the residents of Gaza. “

Katz ordered the army to “seize additional areas in Gaza, evacuate the population, and expand the security areas around Gaza to protect Israeli societies [Israeli army] Local media reported “soldiers”.

He also warned that Israel would consume the land of Gaza until the Palestinian armed group agreed to launch all prisoners who are still being held in the tape.

“The more Hamas continues to refuse to launch the hostages, the more the lands that will be lost, which will be included in Israel,” Katz reported by the Post Cats as saying.

“If the hostages are not launched, Israel will continue to take more and more land on the tape for permanent control.”

With the pressure on the Israeli land forces in a deeper way in Gaza, Israeli aircraft continued to bomb a fierce pocket. Five people, including three children, were killed in an Israeli air strike that struck a house in the Toufa area in Gaza City in the north of Al -Jib, while two people – a woman and her daughter – were killed by tank fire in Abasan near Khan Yunis in the south, according to the Palestinian Asian.

Later, the Israeli army said it had objected to two of the projectiles that were launched from northern Gaza after stimulating the alerts in the Israeli city of Ashkelon. No Palestinian group immediately demanded responsibility.

This development comes after the Israeli forces invaded the Shapora area in Rafah, Gaza City in the far south of Gaza near the Egyptian border, and Beit Lahia in northern Gaza, late on Thursday. Earlier this week, Israel said it had closed the main road between the north and the south in the region as part of its expanding terrestrial operations.

Judri Al -Jazeera Al -Khalaf, who was reported to be in central Gaza, according to residents in Beit Lahia and Wrafa, said that the Israeli forces did not give any previous warnings of their activities.

She said: “They did not throw leaflets or drop any warnings asking people to evacuate those areas.”

Israeli military cars are driving along the southern border of Israel with the northern Gaza Strip on March 20
The Israeli military leadership is leading along the southern border of Israel with the northern Gaza tape on March 20, 2025 [Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP]

The ground operations come after Israel had destroyed almost two months in Gaza on Tuesday with an uncompromising wave of bombing, after imposing a new siege on the Palestinian territories. More than 590 people, including About 200 childrenHe was killed in renewable attacks, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza.

Israel said it had resumed the attacks after Hamas failed to agree to a new version of the ceasefire agreement. The Israeli authorities wanted an extension of the first stage of the armistice and the launch of most of the 59 prisoners in Gaza – which is believed to be about twenty alive – without committing to end the war.

The Palestinian Armed Group confirmed that it wanted to stick to the original agreement signed in January, through which the two sides should start negotiations in the second stage of the deal, which would deal with the launch of the remaining prisoners, and withdraw the Israeli forces from the pocket and permanent miracle in the fighting.

The United States-the strong Israel-insisted that Hamas was holding Israel’s responsibility to resume its bombing in Gaza.

“Hamas bears full responsibility for the ongoing war in Gaza and the resumption of hostilities. It was possible to avoid all the deaths if Hamas accepted the proposal of the bridge that the United States submitted last Wednesday,” the US Ambassador, Dorothy Xia, told the United Nations Security Council of the United Nations Front Security Council.

Lack of help, “sunken” hospitals

UNRWA, the United Nations Refugee Agency, said that the situation in Gaza is concerned amid major discounts in distributing aid supplies.

“This is the longest since the beginning of the conflict in October 2023, which has not entered any supplies at all in Gaza,” Sam Rose of the UNRWA told reporters. “The progress we have made as an aid system over the past six weeks is reversed from the ceasefire.”

“We can extend this by giving people less, but we are talking days, not weeks,” Rose said, adding that six out of 25 bakeries were the global food program supported by it.

Khodri from the island said that health workers and hospitals in the tape were drowning amid Israel’s renewed assault.

She said: “We are talking about 18 days of Safariya auxiliary trucks entering the Gaza Strip. No one truck from medical supplies has entered the Gaza Strip,” she said.

“Speaking to doctors, they say most of these injuries are very serious and most injured are children, women and the elderly.”

Moreover, the lack of fuel in the coastal pocket was more worse. “Most of Gaza hospitals are at risk of collapse and closure if they do not receive fuel in the coming days,” said Khudari.

On March 2, Israel Prevent all humanitarian aid In Gaza, after the end of the first stage of the ceasefire, it was cut off food, medicine and fuel.

This global condemnation, with European countries warning that the siege may violate international humanitarian law.

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2025-03-21 11:13:00

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