By Nidal al-Mughrabi
CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli airplanes went down brochures over southerly Gaza on Saturday revealing a photo of the dead Hamas principal Yahya Sinwar with the message that “Hamas will no longer rule Gaza”, resembling language made use of by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The action came as Israeli army strikes eliminated a minimum of 32 individuals throughout the Gaza Strip and tightened up a siege around healthcare facilities in Jabalia in the north of the territory, Palestinian health and wellness authorities stated.
“Whoever goes down the tool and turn over the captives will certainly be permitted to leave and reside in tranquility,” the leaflet, written in Arabic, read, according to residents of the southern city of Khan Younis and images circulating online.
The leaflet’s wording was from a statement by Netanyahu on Thursday after Sinwar was killed by Israeli soldiers operating in Rafah, in the south near the Egyptian border, on Wednesday.
The Oct. 7 attack Sinwar planned on Israeli communities a year ago killed around 1,200 people, with another 253 dragged back to Gaza as hostages, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel’s subsequent war has devastated Gaza, killing more than 42,500 Palestinians, with another 10,000 uncounted dead thought to lie under the rubble, Gaza health authorities say.
In the central Gaza Strip camp of Al-Maghzai, an Israeli strike on a house killed 11 people, while another strike at the nearby camp of Nuseirat killed four others.
Five other people were killed in two separate strikes in the south Gaza cities of Khan Younis and Rafah, medics said, while seven Palestinians were killed in the Shati camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
Late on Friday, medics said 33 people, mostly women and children, were killed and 85 others were wounded in Israeli strikes that destroyed at least three houses in Jabalia.
The Israeli military said it was unaware of that incident.
It said forces were continuing operations against Hamas across the enclave, killing several gunmen in Rafah and Jabalia and dismantling military infrastructure. Palestinian medics said five people were killed in Jabalia on Saturday.
EVACUATION ORDERS
Residents and medics said Israeli forces had tightened their siege on Jabalia, the largest of the enclave’s eight historic camps, which it encircled by also sending tanks to nearby towns of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya and issuing evacuation orders to residents.
Israeli officials said evacuation orders were aimed at separating Hamas fighters from civilians and denied that there was any systematic plan to clear civilians out of Jabalia or other northern areas.
Residents and medical officials said Israeli forces were bombing houses and besieging hospitals, preventing medical and food supplies from entering to force them to leave the camp.
Health officials said they refused orders by the Israeli army to evacuate the hospital or leave the patients, many in a critical condition, unattended.
“The Israeli line of work is escalating its targeting of the health and wellness system in the north Gaza Strip, by besieging and straight targeting the Indonesian Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital, and Al-Awda Hospital throughout the previous hours and its persistence on placing them inactive,” the Gaza health ministry said.
It said two patients in intensive care at the Indonesian Hospital died ” as an outcome of the medical facility’s siege and the power failure and clinical materials”.
Israel’s military said the troops operating in the area had been ” oriented on the relevance of mitigating damage to private citizens and clinical framework”.
“It is stressed that the medical facility remains to run without interruption and completely ability, and there was no willful fire guided at it,” it stated.
(Reporting and creating by Nidal al-Mughrabi Additional coverage by Ali Sawafta and Maayan Lubell, creating by Ahmed Tolba; Editing by Toby Chopra and Alison Williams)
