STRAIGHT. War between Israel and Hamas: The Israeli army continues to bomb the south of the Gaza Strip

Southern Gaza Strip under fire

Israeli aircraft heavily bomb the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday. Early this morning, Israeli airstrikes intensified strikes in the area of ​​Khan Younes, the main city in southern Gaza and the epicenter of fighting in recent weeks, eyewitnesses said. “The fighting is taking place underground, on land, in very, very difficult terrain, in front of an enemy who has been preparing his defenses for a very long period and in a very organized manner,” the Israeli army chief of staff said. Herzi Halevi, who visited the center of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.

Mahmoud Abbas ready to reform Palestinian Authority, Judge Blinken

The head of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken, continues his regional tour in Manama, the capital of Bahrain. There he said Mahmoud Abbas was determined to reform the Palestinian Authority to potentially reunite the war-torn Gaza Strip. “I don’t want to speak on behalf of President Abbas, but I think what I took from this meeting is that he is determined to do this and really wants to move forward,” he assured in response to an AFP question. about Mahmoud Abbas’s commitment to reforming the Palestinian Authority.

Israel says two Al Jazeera journalists killed were ‘terrorist agents’

The Israeli army says two Al Jazeera journalists killed in one of the strikes in the Gaza Strip on Sunday were “terrorist agents” linked to the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas and its ally Islamic Jihad. Hamza Daduh and Mustafa Thuraya, who worked as video journalists for several international media outlets including AFP, were killed on Sunday when their car was attacked in the southern Palestinian territory while they were on assignment for a Qatari channel.

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