Israeli tanks capture the main road dividing the east and west of Rafah, effectively encircling the eastern part of the city
After days of Israeli airstrikes, killing dozens of Palestinians, two brigades are said to be in eastern Rafah, backed up by air and naval forcesIsraeli tanks captured the main road dividing the east and west of Rafah, effectively encircling the eastern part of the city, as residents described almost constant explosions and gunfire in the east and northeast on Friday.
“When you occupy a place you have to keep it and stay there or the insurgents come back,” Dr Bregman told“They are moving underground, and moving back with all the other Palestinians, and you can see them now in the north.”Heavy battles erupted this week in the Zeitoun area on the outskirts of Gaza City in the north of the Strip, despite this area being the first target of an IDF ground offensive in Gaza, and Israel saying late last year that it had mostly dismantled Hamas there.
Another vital crossing, Kerem Shalom, has apparently been reopened by Israel since it shut last weekend, but the UN says it remains inaccessible because of ongoing fighting. Dr Bregman said military action is likely to be limited to operations in Rafah’s outskirts for the time being, because the inner city is too crowded for troops to “operate there freely”.
Both sides have been locked in truce negotiations in Cairo over the last few weeks, with negotiators leaving Egypt on Thursday, dashing hope of an upcoming ceasefire. “ will be expanded in a similar way to how they were in Khan Yunis: Rafah will be squeezed on both sides,” she said.
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