Invasion
GAZA4:
Israel kept up its heavy assault on the “encircled” Gaza city of Khan Yunis as the invading force suffered its single day since ground the ground invasion of the Palestinian territory commenced.
Israel’s invasion and its relentless offensive has killed at least 25,490 Palestinians in Gaza, around 70 percent of them women and children, according to the health ministry in the territory. The war has led to dire shortages of food, water, fuel and medicines in the besieged territory.
The UN humanitarian agency OCHA reported that Israeli forces on Tuesday had issued fresh evacuation orders for a section of Khan Yunis housing an estimated half a million residents and displaced people. The orders came as the World Food Programme warned that Gazans were facing “catastrophic food insecurity”, and as the UN chief took Israel to task over its rejection of a two-state solution — seen by ally the United States as the only path to a durable peace.
Twenty-four Israeli troops were killed on Monday, 21 of them reservists slain when Hamas resistance fighters “surprised” the Israeli troops with rocket-propelled grenade fire, military spokesman Daniel Hagari said Tuesday.
