ISRAELI forces have severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory and pounded it with intense airstrikes overnight.
The action sets the stage for an expected push into the dense confines of Gaza City and an even bloodier phase of the month-old war.Some 1400 Israelis have died, mostly civilians killed in the October 7 incursion by Hamas that started the war.
On Monday, it said that aircraft struck 450 targets overnight and ground troops took over a Hamas compound. Mobile phone and internet service went down overnight, the third territory-wide outage since the start of the war, but was gradually restored on Monday, according to the Palestinian telecom company Paltel and internet access advocacy group NetBlocks.org.Aid workers say the outages make it even harder for civilians to seek safety or even call ambulances.
The war has also stoked wider tensions, with Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group trading fire along the border. The UN office for humanitarian affairs said seven water facilities across Gaza were struck over the last two days and sustained “major damage”, raising the risk of sewage flooding.Some 800,000 people have heeded Israeli military orders to flee to southern Gaza.
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