Israel airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, sending tanks back north 3
`In the past day, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) has attacked more than 40 targets across the Gaza Strip, including underground fortifications used to launch rockets and booby-trapped structures where enemy fighters gathered.
In the central region of the Gaza Strip, the IDF confirmed that it destroyed a number of Hamas rocket launchers that were ready to attack Israeli territory.
On the outskirts of the Nuseirat refugee camp, IDF units killed many gunmen and raided and destroyed a number of facilities belonging to Palestinian armed groups.
Israeli air strikes across the Gaza Strip
A series of Israeli air force raids across the Gaza Strip on April 16.
Palestinian health officials in the Gaza Strip accused Israel of killing many civilians.
The attack at the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip killed at least 11 people.
The IDF has not commented on information about civilian casualties in the series of air strikes on April 16.
Israeli tanks near the Gaza Strip border on February 26.
Residents and medical staff in the areas of Beit Hanoun and Jabaliya, located in the northern Gaza Strip, said IDF tanks returned to this front.
According to Hamas officials, IDF tanks entered Beit Hanoun and surrounded several schools, which were being used as refugees for civilians.
Beit Hanoun, an area with more than 60,000 people before the war, was one of the first targets the IDF attacked when it launched its campaign in the Gaza Strip in October 2023.
What was once known as Gaza’s `fruit basket` is now desolate, as fighting and raids flattened homes.
The IDF announced that it would launch a campaign to suppress Hamas in the Beit Hanoun area from April 13, but did not reveal the scale of the campaign and has not updated developments on the ground so far.
Hamas on April 16 confirmed fighting with Israeli units in Beit Hanoun.
Location of Beit Hanoun, Gaza City and Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
Since the events of October 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing more than 1,100 people, the IDF has launched a military campaign across the entire Gaza Strip with the goal of demilitarizing the land and eliminating
According to Gaza health authorities, Israel’s retaliation campaign has left more than 33,700 people dead in the area, mainly women and children.
