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According to the Israeli military, over the past day, Israeli aircraft struck approximately 250 targets in the Gaza Strip. At the same time, they confirmed advance in the area of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. According to the reports from the front, clashes are still ongoing near the Indonesian hospital.
According to the IDF, the 162nd Division, in collaboration with the Israeli Air Force, is currently preparing the battlefield to enter Jabalia. Israeli fighter jets and UAVs are pounding the targets in the area. The Israeli military claimed the destruction of three tunnel shafts used by Hamas fighters in the area of Jabalia. Additionally, combat squads of the 551st Brigade, in collaboration with special forces, continue mop up operations north of Jabalia. The 401st Armored Brigade and the 933rd Infantry Brigade “Nahal” also reportedly operate in the vicinity of the camp.
A senior health official in Gaza said hundreds of people have been trapped inside the Indonesian hospital, hours after Israeli forces launched an attack on the facility and besieged it on November 20. Some 700 patients along with staff at the Indonesian Hospital remain under constant Israeli fire. At least 12 people were recently killed in the attack and dozens more were wounded.
Some advance of the Israeli 36th Armored Division was reported in the Zaytun area, where they are engaged in fierce battles with Hamas forces, including the battalion of the same name al-Qassam Brigades, which is considered one of the most combat-ready units of the Palestinian movement.
Israeli forces are demolishing infrastructure in Gaza:
The press service of the Israel Defense Forces said that during the ground operation in the Gaza Strip there were several cases of friendly fire between Israeli servicemen, some of them ended with the death of fighters.
A total of 66 fighters have been killed since the start of the ground operation in the Gaza Strip. The names of the last two of them were revealed on the morning of November 21.
In his turn, the spokesman for the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said that Palestinian fighters destroyed at least 60 Israeli military vehicles over the last three days . The targeted vehicles included at least 10 armored personnel carriers. The spokesman added that the al-Qassam Brigades inflicted “fatalities and injuries” on Israeli forces in “several qualitative operations,” which were carried out during the same period. According to him, if the Israeli military is unable to tow its damaged vehicles, it resorts to bombing them from the air to erase the traces of its failure.
The al-Qassam Brigades also reported bombardment of the Israeli Ra’im military base with a missile barrage.
