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Dozens of Israeli vehicles penetrated from the eastern side of Beit Hanoun towards the northern Gaza Strip, amid sound of explosions in the area, in parallel with a continuing attack on Al-Shifa Medical Complex.

According to a report prepared by Salam Khader, the attack coincided with a bloody operation carried out by Israeli forces at Al-Shifa Medical Hospital, where they executed dozens of civilians and targeted medical staff and patients.

The forces launched a violent bombardment on Al-Shifa Complex, bulldozed its courtyard, and raped a number of women, according to testimony provided by citizen Jamila Al-Hassi, who was trapped inside the hospital.

The southern Israeli forces said that they would not stop their recovery operation before eliminating "the last of the terrorists, whether dead or alive."

The occupation army announced the arrest of more than 800 Palestinians from inside the hospital and published pictures that it said were of resistance fighters. It was later revealed that they were medical staff workers or people already outside the Gaza Strip.

The occupation army spokesman invoked human error to justify publishing photos of civilians as those of fighters.

The occupation destroyed entire residential squares in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital, burned many buildings, and used fighter jets to bomb the place.

The systematic destruction process aims to reduce the number of forces that may clash in the place and try to reach the places where the resistance is based.

Despite their return to areas from which they had previously withdrawn, the occupation forces do not show a tendency to expand operations in the center and north of the Gaza Strip.

The new maneuver in the north is accompanied by the intensification of aerial reconnaissance operations with the aim of determining the changes that have occurred in the resistance situation.

Questions are raised about the possibilities of returning momentum to the battles in the northern Gaza Strip, while Israel is talking about a large operation that it wants to carry out in the city of Rafah in the south.

Source: Al Jazeera