On Wednesday, the Israeli military launched a new ground offensive in Gaza and retook the Netzarim Corridor, a strip of land that separates northern Gaza from the rest of the territory, as fresh Israeli strikes killed dozens of more Palestinians.
Israeli military sources told The Jerusalem Post that Israeli tanks entered the Netzarim Corridor and described the ground invasion as “limited,” although they didn’t rule out expanding the invasion in the coming days.
The Israeli military withdrew from the Netzarim Corridor under the first phase of the ceasefire deal, allowing Palestinians to return to the north, which had been completely destroyed by Israeli attacks and demolitions of homes and other buildings.
Israeli forces remained deployed in a “buffer zone” the IDF created along the Israel-Gaza border that cut into Gaza’s territory by about one kilometer. Israeli troops have also remained in the Philadelphi Corridor, which runs along the Gaza-Egypt border.
Under the ceasefire agreement, the IDF was supposed to withdraw from the Philadelphi Corridor at the end of the first phase, but Israel refused, one of its many violations of the agreement. Israel has now totally abandoned the ceasefire deal, which Hamas has said it remains committed to, and is now threatening to expand its bombing campaign and invasion of Gaza.
Al Jazeera reported that among the dozens of Palestinians killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza on Wednesday was a foreign aid worker, who was killed alongside five Palestinian aid workers in a strike on a UN headquarters in central Gaza.
Israel restarted its genocidal war on Gaza, with a “green light” from President Trump, on Tuesday morning with a massive bombardment that killed scores of women and children. According to the latest numbers, Israeli attacks that morning killed 436 Palestinians, including 183 children, 94 women, 34 elderly people, and 125 men.
This article is reprinted with permission from Antiwar.com
