According to the TV channel, Israeli authorities have started to evacuate the elderly from nursing homes in the city of Ashkelon in the south of the country, where air strike warnings have been heard regularly since the Palestinian-Israeli conflict began to escalate. i24 News.
As stated by the media, the total population of this city is almost 150 thousand people.
Before that, members of the Saraya al-Quds group (Jerusalem Companies – the armed wing of Islamic Jihad (the organization is banned in Russia) statedThat Ashkelon was bombed again.
7 October Hamas forces launched Several thousand rockets were fired at Israel and the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was announced. Thousands of militants invaded Israeli territory, seizing dozens of military equipment and more than a hundred hostages. In this context, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announcedthat the country is at war.
The Israel Defense Forces intervention operation was called “Iron Swords” and one of its goals was the destruction of Hamas. Israeli Air Force applied Hundreds of group targets in the Gaza Strip were attacked, and Israel’s National Security Council decided to cut off water, food, materials, electricity and fuel supplies to the area.
Formerly in Hamas statedThey value Putin’s position.