Four Israeli forces killed in Gaza City as fighting rages
The Israeli military says four soldiers were killed when an "explosive device" went off in Gaza City.
"The four soldiers were killed in the same incident, from an explosive device near a school in the area of Zeitoun," a southern neighborhood of Gaza City, the military said in a statement.
It said that two other soldiers were "seriously injured" in the explosion.
The Al-Quds Brigade, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement, said in a statement that it "detonated a field of mines and high-explosive ground devices" in the Zeitoun neighborhood on Friday.
Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, also said it attacked Israeli soldiers in the east of Rafah.
More than a million people displaced from elsewhere in Gaza by Israel’s war on their homeland are now sheltering in the territory’s southern city of Rafah.
The regime's forces on Tuesday seized control of Gaza’s vital Rafah border crossing, prompting fears of a planned ground offensive on the last refuge of the Palestinians.
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far brushed off urgent warnings from the international community and the regime's close allies and ordered the military to invade the southern city only hours after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas informed Qatari and Egyptian mediators that the group accepted their proposal for a ceasefire.
Hamas said on Friday that the "ball is completely" in the regime’s court as it is the party that has rejected the proposal.
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Israel waged its bloodiest-ever military campaign in the Gaza Strip in early October, after Hamas launched the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupied territories.
The Israeli attacks have killed nearly 35,000 people in the besieged coastal area while leaving vast swathes of the territory in ruins.
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