Dozens of militants have been killed by Israeli forces in close combat in the Gaza Strip since Thursday, the Israeli army disclosed on Friday. Israel’s air force also fired on positions from which rockets were fired at Israel.
The military destroyed what it called terrorist infrastructure during battles in the city of Khan Younis in the south of the coastal territory and in the area of Deir al-Balah further north.
The war in Gaza, which began after the Hamas terrorist attacks on October 7, has displaced some 90% of the population of Gaza, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
UN representatives have called for a ceasefire at least to allow health workers to issue polio vaccinations for the hundreds of thousands of children in the war zone.
