Israeli forces say they continue to operate “follow along the Morag corridor in the Rafa region” in southern Gaza.
A video released by the IDF on Thursday shows the military is active. The Army says it has destroyed the training compound in the enclave “which contained a mock tank modeled after the IDF tank.”
Israel has announced that it has completed construction of a new security corridor, distinguishing the city in the southern part of Rafa from other parts of the Gaza Strip, and narrowing it further down to land wedges that will further reduce the Palestinians as airstrikes continue across the Enclave.
The new security corridor known as Morag refers to the name of the Jewish settlement that once stood between Rafa and Khan Eunice.
Meanwhile, local health officials say Israel attacked the enclave overnight until Thursday, killing at least 23 people, including 10 families.
The UN has issued an alarm about the impact of Israel’s increased six-week-old lockdown, preventing all food and other supplies from entering the territory.
Khan Yunis’ strike in the southern city killed five children, four women and one man from the same family, according to Nasser Hospital, which received the body.
A strike in northern Gaza killed 13 people, including nine children, according to medical experts at an Indonesian hospital.
Israeli forces say they are trying to avoid harming civilians, and are trying to condemn the deaths in Hamas as Hamas is operating in residential areas, and accusing them of using them as human shields.
However, there was no immediate Israeli comment on the latest strike.
The UN Humanitarian Agency, known as OCHA, said almost all of Gaza’s population rely solely on a million prepared meals produced daily by various charitable kitchens set up by aid groups for food.
The United Nations also warns that if disastrous living conditions do not end soon, much of the population is at serious risk of hunger and malnutrition.
Other food distribution programs have been closed due to shortages of supplies, with the United Nations and other aid groups sending the remaining shares to the charity kitchen.
The only way to get food in Gaza is from the market, but prices are spiral and shortages are widespread. In other words, humanitarian aid is the main food source for at least 80% of the population, according to the World Food Program, which released figures in the April edition of its monthly report.
The war began on October 7, 2023, when Hamas-led militants attacked southern Israel, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and acquiring 251 people. Most of the hostages were then released in ceasefire agreements or other transactions. Israel rescued eight people and retrieved dozens of bodies.
The Israeli attack has so far killed 51,065 people and injured another 116,505 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to Hamaslan’s Gaza Health Ministry.
The numbers do not distinguish between civilians and combatant casualties. The United Nations says it was confirmed that about two-thirds of deaths were women and children.
Israel says it killed around 20,000 Hamas militants but does not provide concrete evidence to support those claims.
The war destroyed a huge portion of Gaza and most of its food production capacity. International organizations say that about 60% of all buildings and the critical infrastructure of the enclaves have been heavily damaged or completely destroyed. Reconstruction efforts are projected to take decades to restore the strip to pre-war levels.
Approximately 90% of the population is evacuated, most of which have been multiple times in 16 months of combat. Hundreds of thousands of people still live in tent camps and bombed buildings.
