GAZA STRIP: Battles raged in Gaza on Saturday (Oct 28) as Israel's army said it expanded ground operations after intensifying its bombardment of the Palestinian territory three weeks after the deadliest attack in the country's history.
"We are confronting an Israeli ground incursion in Beit Hanoun and east Bureij and violent engagements are taking place on the ground," Hamas's armed wing the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said.
"The ground forces are extending the ground operations tonight," military spokesman Daniel Hagari said late Friday. In a bombed-out street in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood, 50-year-old Om Walid Basal said her apartment block had been destroyed by Israel."Why are they bombing us? Why are they destroying our homes?""If Netanyahu decides to enter Gaza tonight, the resistance is ready," Ezzat al-Rishaq, a senior member of the Hamas political bureau, said on Telegram on Friday.
Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf, whose inlaws are trapped in Gaza, voiced alarm at the communications shutdown. It was also welcomed by Hamas, but it was harshly criticised by Israel and the United States for failing to mention Hamas, with Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan calling it an"infamy".Israel's bombardment has displaced more than 1.4 million people inside the crowded territory, according to the UN, even as supplies of food, water and power to Gaza have been almost completely cut off.
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