The Ministry of the Interior in the Gaza Strip announced today (Tuesday) that Israeli army forces have penetrated the outskirts of the Strip from the northwestern Gaza area, and that their vehicles are in the Al-Karama area, north of the city.

Ministry spokesman Iyad Al-Bazm told reporters that Israeli forces are currently stationed in the Al-Tawam area and west of the Karama neighborhood, “after committing massacres and targeting all citizens’ homes there in a manner similar to targeting a nuclear bomb.”

Al-Bazm added that Israeli army vehicles have reached Salah al-Din Street again, and are advancing towards al-Rashid Street to cut off Gaza City and the north from the south.

Later, the Ministry announced that 400 Palestinians were killed and wounded in an Israeli attack on the northern Gaza Strip.

Al-Bazm said during a press conference at Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza that Israeli warplanes bombed a residential neighborhood in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip with seven bombs, each weighing a thousand tons of explosives.

Al-Bazm stated that the Israeli bombing destroyed the entire residential neighborhood, including inhabited homes above the heads of their residents.

Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraee posted on his website on the (X) platform, “The attack order issued by the commander of the southern region of the ground forces operating in the Gaza Strip.”

The “attack order” stated, “We now launch an attack on Hamas and the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip... Our goal is the same: victory, no matter how long the fight lasts, and no matter how difficult it is, there is no result other than victory.”
He added, "We will fight professionally and forcefully, guided by the IDF values that we were raised with, most important of which is the commitment to achieving the mission and striving for victory. We will fight in the alleys, we will fight in the tunnels, and we will fight wherever necessary... We will eliminate the sinful enemy."

On the seventh of this month, Israel declared a state of war for the first time in fifty years, and launched Operation “Iron Swords” against the Gaza Strip after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack under the name “Al-Aqsa Flood,” during which its fighters stormed Israeli towns adjacent to the Strip.