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Israel conducted new air strikes on Thursday, April 18, in the Gaza Strip, while the international community fears regional escalation, awaiting a promised response from the Israeli authorities to the unprecedented attack by Iran against the Jewish state last weekend.
The Israeli military stated that it targeted numerous “sites” across the Palestinian enclave in the past 24 hours, including “terrorists, observation posts, and military structures”. Witnesses also reported airstrikes in the Gaza Strip during the night from Wednesday to Thursday, where the military offensive has resulted in 33,970 casualties over more than six months, according to the Hamas health ministry. These airstrikes occurred particularly in the cities of Gaza, Khan Younes, and Rafah, located in the South, where around a million and a half people have been displaced by the war, according to the territory’s civil defense. Bombings also affected Al-Mawasi in the South, which has been transformed into a camp with thousands of tents for displaced individuals.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is also pressing forward with his plan for a ground offensive against Rafah, situated on the border with Egypt, which he portrays as the last major stronghold of Hamas, in power in Gaza since 2007.
