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| Gaza Round-up: S. Gaza no-go zone expanded, IDF Paleo casualties number does not match Hamas claim, Hamas weapons factory near med.site hit |
| 2025-06-13 |
IDF issues new evacuation warning for southern Gaza, expanding no-go zone [IsraelTimes] The IDF issues a new evacuation warning in the southern Gaza Strip, slightly expanding a large no-go zone. “The IDF is operating with great force in the areas where you are located to destroy the capabilities of the terror organizations,” the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee says on X, attaching a map showing the areas that are to be evacuated. Palestinian civilians in the area are called to head west. UN reports full internet blackout across the Gaza Strip [IsraelTimes] The United Nations says that there is a full internet blackout in the Gaza Strip, likely due to military activity damaging the last cable into the enclave, which has paralyzed aid operations. “Lifelines to emergency services, humanitarian coordination, and critical information for civilians have all been cut. There is a full internet blackout, and mobile networks are barely functioning,” deputy UN spokesperson Farhan Haq tells reporters. “In a context already limited by physical access restrictions and widespread damage, emergency services are cut off, and civilians cannot access life-saving support,” Haq says. Gazan targeted in strike last month identified as man with special needs A physical handicap like CP does not imply a mental handicap, nor need either prevent a man from wearing a suicide vest. — so he was a plausible risk. [IsraelTimes] After the IDF said it launched an airstrike in Gaza on a terrorist, the victim was identified as a disabled man with special needsThe IDF issued a statement saying it carried out an airstrike last month targeting a “terrorist” in Khan Younis, but a Haaretz report identifies him as a man with special needs. The incident took place on May 30 and shortly afterward, footage of the strike blowing Muhammad al-Farra to pieces was posted on the Telegram page of Israeli journalist Amit Segal with the Hebrew caption, “Gaza.” It was liked by thousands of followers. The clip shows Farra walking with a limp before being targeted. Farra was diagnosed with cerebral palsy after a childhood accident. The IDF, in its statement on the incident, says the man was identified walking in and out of buildings “used for terrorist activity” and that it had already ordered the area to be evacuated. It does not explain why or how Farra was identified as a terrorist. IDF: ‘Warning shots’ fired overnight at crowd of Gazans who ‘posed threat’ to troops [IsraelTimes] Israeli troops fired “warning shots” at a crowd of Palestinians that approached them and “posed a threat” in the Netzarim Corridor area of central Gaza overnight, the military says, in what has become a near-daily occurrence. Palestinian media reported that some 32 were killed by Israeli fire as they approached an aid site operated by the Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the area. The IDF says that “according to a preliminary examination, the number of reported casualties does not match the information available to the IDF.” “The details of the incident continue to be examined in depth,” the IDF says. According to the IDF, the shooting took place hundreds of meters from the GHF site, and before it was open for aid distribution. The military says the Palestinians approached the troops “despite warnings that the area is an active combat zone.” The army has warned Palestinians not to approach routes leading to GHF sites between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. local time, describing these roads as closed military zones. Still, GHF has indicated that its sites are open past those hours. IDF says it struck Hamas operatives at weapons manufacturing plant in Gaza City’s Shati camp [IsraelTimes] Earlier today, the military says, it struck Hamas operatives at a building used as a weapons manufacturing plant in Gaza City’s Shati Camp. “The facility struck was used to produce weapons for the Hamas terror organization and were intended to be used in terror attacks targeting IDF troops operating in the Gaza Strip. “The facility operators were terrorists who were part of Hamas’s weapons production unit,” the army says. The IDF says that “Hamas embedded this weapon production facility in close proximity to a medical site. This site was not damaged during the strike.” |
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