The Israeli occupation forces destroyed a residential neighborhood consisting of several buildings in the town of Beit Hanoun, in the far north of the Gaza Strip, as part of its ongoing operation in that area, which focuses mainly on destroying the remaining homes, buildings, infrastructure, and even hospitals and others.

The neighborhood is officially known as the “Officers’ Neighborhood,” but in its usual Palestinian popular names it is called “Return Towers.” It is a building consisting of more than 8 or 10 residential floors that were built with the return of the Palestinian Authority to the Gaza Strip in 1994. Each floor includes 4 residential apartments, inhabited by officers and senior employees working in the security services of the Authority, before a large number of them were forced to sell them due to the repeated shooting at them from nearby Israeli sites.

The Israeli occupation army claimed that the neighborhood was used as a shelter for Hamas leaders, and that the movement used it as part of its anti-tank shelling operations, sniper operations, border monitoring, and monitoring the movements of the army and settlers in the Gaza envelope.

The neighborhood's buildings overlook the towers of the town of Sderot and some border kibbutzim adjacent to the northern borders of the Strip, and Israeli military sites can be clearly seen from it.

According to the Hebrew newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, the neighborhood is located in the Beit Hanoun estate, overlooking Ashkelon and the homes of Sderot, and from a distance Ofakim can be seen, claiming that it remained for thirty years as a monitoring and surveillance center for Hamas elements.

According to local sources, the occupation forces destroyed all the high-rise buildings overlooking Israeli settlements and military sites in the northern Gaza Strip, especially residential areas such as “Al-Dhobat Neighborhood/Al-Awda Towers,” “Al-Nada Towers,” “Sheikh Zayed Towers,” and other areas whose construction was primarily supervised by the Palestinian Authority.

The sources added that the main goal of the destruction operation is to allow the Israeli forces to establish buffer zones in the northern Gaza Strip, a plan that began with the start of the recent Jabalia camp operation more than 80 days ago, in which the occupation forces are deepening their operations and focusing on demolishing the largest possible number of homes, buildings, and other things.

The sources strongly denied that any of the Hamas leaders live in the same neighborhood, noting that it is located in an area near the border, and is easy for the occupation army to operate in terms of security, and therefore there are no leaders of the factions in it, as Israel claims.

Yedioth Ahronoth confirms that the neighborhood was destroyed as part of the Israeli army's Gaza Division plan to demolish thousands of homes and facilities for the sake of the buffer zone in the Strip. Thousands of other buildings were also leveled that posed a direct threat to the residents of Kibbutz Nahal Oz, which overlooks the Shuja'iyya neighborhood, or in Khuza'a, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, which overlooks Kibbutz Nir Oz.

The newspaper says, "The military achievements in the northern Gaza Strip are great, and Hamas is no longer operating as a military framework as it was in the past. The operation will continue there, and it will take several more months of fighting to finish cleansing the area."

Israel is trying, as the Hebrew newspaper Haaretz says, to prevent the residents of the northern Gaza Strip from returning to their homes through the systematic destruction it is following in Gaza, noting that the residents of Jabalia and northern Gaza no longer have any place to return to if the Israeli army, which has completely destroyed the area, withdraws.

All of this comes at a time when the Hebrew Channel 12 reported that Israel is considering reducing the humanitarian aid allowed into the Gaza Strip, with the arrival of the US President Donald Trump administration and the departure of the Joe Biden administration, which had pledged to increase aid.

An Israeli political official said: “It is unlikely that the amount of humanitarian aid being brought into the Gaza Strip today will continue as it is with the arrival of the Trump administration, and if a decision is made, it will be in coordination with the new administration.”

Israeli sources claim that this was due to Hamas' exploitation of areas classified as humanitarian, where it manufactures weapons and missiles.

This seems to indicate an escalation in rocket fire from the Gaza Strip towards Israeli settlements in recent days, coinciding with an escalation in the intensity of Israeli raids on various areas of the Strip, especially in Gaza City and its north.

Meanwhile, medics said an Israeli strike on a house in Gaza City killed 14 Palestinians early Saturday, bringing the death toll from strikes across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours to 62.

Residents and medics said at least 14 people were in the Ghoula family home, in the Shujaiya neighbourhood, when the attack occurred in the early hours of the morning, destroying the building.

The search for possible survivors trapped under the rubble is still ongoing, while medics said that a number of children were among the dead. Flames and plumes of smoke continued to rise from burning furniture in the rubble for several hours after the attack.

Eight humanitarian workers were killed in two separate raids in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip and Khan Yunis in the south.