‘Gazan health authorities have revised their death toll upwards to over 21,000’ • FRANCE 24

‘Gazan health authorities have revised their death toll upwards to over 21,000’ • FRANCE 24

Well Israel has said that it will be continuing and indeed expanding its offensive throughout uh the Gaza Strip it’s been doing so for the last several days as this Exodus of Palestinians continues to uh from areas that are under attack thousands are reported to have been flooding into the town of derl

Bala in central Gaza this even as Israel continues its bombardments not just in the South but the center as well now Gaz and health authorities have revised their death toll upwards to over 21 ,000 now and nowhere in Gaza it really is is truly safe 1.9 million people displaced

Uh moving from place of place often under bombardments with uh strikes incoming and continuing now they have uh Israel has been continuing to B bombard refugee camps in central Gaza with air strikes and a ground assault uh but it’s blamed Hamas for operating in builtup areas for the need to strike at those

Hamas targets it’s uh been seeing a lot of criticism and uh and urging from the International Community to take more care uh with with its strikes with for Fears of civilians being caught in the crossfire but it has said on Wednesday that its strikes are indeed precise and

Focused and it that it’s uh denying any uh idea that it may that they are bombing indiscriminately uh it’s pointing to these large craters that you can see left throughout Gaza as the result of the explosion and detonation of Hamas Munitions and weapons that are being stored underground now that makes

Little difference to uh Palestinian civilians who are Under Fire uh who are scrambling often uh to areas that are already badly overcrowded in in search of safety Luke quickly the situation in the north on the border between Israel and Lebanon give us something on that well there’s been a distinct

Upswing in violence on the uh Israeli Lebanon border to the north over the last couple of days days leaving tension remarkably High we’ve seen uh barrages of rockets uh along the border on Wednesday particularly in uh Ros hanika and kirat schona uh with a launch of suicide drones as well towards Israeli

Positions in the goolan Heights now most of uh these Rockets were taken out by Israel’s Iron Dome defense system uh with others left to land in open areas causing no damage uh Israel rapidly responded with air strikes and artillery taking out the SES of the launch uh but

They’ve also been hitting other targets uh from Hezbollah in Lebanon now the Hezbollah militant group is an Iranian Ally It’s escalated its activity on the northern border ever since the death on Christmas day of an Iranian revolutionary guards General who was uh who was in Syria at the time he was

Killed in an air strike uh on Christmas Day and Iran has been vowing not just Revenge but direct action now the uh northern border communities have been evacuated for weeks now tens of thousands have been moved down south to safety leaving the Zone but uh given the

The daily threat that is there uh the Israeli military has been saying that uh their first task is to get those people back home but not until such time as security is returned and it can be made safe and at that point uh we can say

That uh it’s going to take quite some time to ensure that security can return

“Gazan health authorities have revised their death toll upwards to over 21,000”, said FRANCE 24 reporter Luke Shrago, reporting from Tel Aviv, Israel. “No where in Gaza is truly safe”, with 1.9 million people displaced and moving place to place under bombardments, with strikes incoming and continuing, he added.

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