GAZA, Thursday, November 10, 2022 (WAFA) – For the second day in a row, the Israeli army today infiltrated Gaza’s border, east of Deir al-Balah city, and razed property, according to WAFA correspondent.
He said that a convoy of ten army tanks and bulldozers advanced several dozens of meters to the east of the city, and leveled agricultural land and property.
He added that the soldiers opened machine gunfire and volleys of tear gas canisters towards workers at a local stone-cutting factory, forcing them to flee for their safety.
Meanwhile, soldiers deployed in the borderline watchtowers, east of Khan Younes, opened heavy gunfire towards farmlands along Gaza’s eastern border fence east of the city.
Other troops from watchtowers, east of al-Bureij refugee camp, opened heavy gunfire towards agricultural land and shepherds grazing their cattle, east of the camp, forcing them to flee to safety.
No casualties were reported.
Fourteen years following the Israeli “disengagement” from Gaza, Israel has not actually disengaged from Gaza; it still maintains control of its land borders, access to the sea and airspace.
Two million Palestinians live the Gaza Strip, which has been subjected to a punishing and crippling Israeli blockade for 12 years and repeated onslaughts that have heavily damaged much of the enclave’s infrastructure.
Gaza’s 2-million population remains under “remote control” occupation and a strict siege, which has destroyed the local economy, strangled Palestinian livelihoods, plunged them into unprecedented rates of unemployment and poverty, and cut off from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories and the wider world.
Gaza remains occupied territory, having no control over its borders, territorial waters or airspace. Meanwhile, Israel upholds very few of its responsibilities as the occupying power, failing to provide for the basic needs of Palestinian civilians living in the territory.
Every two in three Palestinians in Gaza is a refugee from lands inside what is now Israel. That government forbids them from exercising their right to return as enshrined in international law because they are not Jews.
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