Israel pushes back into northern Gaza, ups military pressure on Rafah

CAIRO - Israel sent tanks into eastern Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip early on May 12, after a night of heavy aerial and ground bombardments, killing 19 people and wounding dozens of others, health officials said.

"We identified in the past weeks attempts by Hamas to rehabilitate its military capabilities in Jabalia. We are operating there to eliminate those attempts," said Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, Israel's military spokesperson, during a briefing to reporters. "War is restarting, this is how it looks in Jabalia," he told Reuters via a chat app."The new incursion forces many families to evacuate."

In an air strike late on May 11 in Deir Al-Balah, health officials said two doctors, a father and his son, were killed. Israel's military operation in Gaza has killed close to 35,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza's health ministry. The bombardment has laid waste to the coastal enclave and caused a deep humanitarian crisis.On May 12, more families, estimated in the thousands, were leaving Rafah as the Israeli military pressure intensified. Tank shells landed across the city as the army gave new evacuation orders covering some neighbourhoods in the centre of the city, which borders Egypt.

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