Israel destroys the second high -rise when the attack on the city of Gaza is reinforced

The Israeli military has destroyed a high -rise in Gaza City, the second large tower that has targeted so many days.

Defense Minister Israel Katz posted a video about the building that collapsed on X with the heading: “We continue”.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which expanded the operations in Gaza, said that the Sussi tower was used by Hamas – a claim that was rejected by the militant group.

It was not immediately clear whether there were victims. Before the strike on Saturday, Israel dropped leaflets that repeated the demands for Palestinians to move into what they described as a humanitarian zone in the south.

In a social media contribution, the Arabic IDF spokesman Avichay Adraee asked the residents “the thousands of people who have already gone”, according to al-Mawasi a area between Khan Younis and the coast.

The IDF has repeatedly encouraged civilians In order to move there, medical care, water and food is made available.

However, the United Nations announced that the tent camps in al-Mawasi are overcrowded and unsafe and that the southern hospitals are overwhelmed.

Five children were killed on Tuesday, while they were watering in Al-Mawasi. Witnesses said they were hit by an Israeli drone, an incident that IDF said was “examined”.

The Sussi tower is the second high-rise that is destroyed in so many days. On Friday, social media film material showed the Mushtaha tower in the Al-Rimal district of the city and collapsed on its base after a massive explosion.

The IDF said that precautionary measures had been taken to reduce the civilian population the damage, “including the preliminary warnings of the population” and the use of “precise ammunition”.

However, the Palestinians said that displaced families had protected in the Mushtaha Tower, and the spokesman for the civil protection authority, Mahmud Bassal, accused Israel to “issued a policy of forced shift”.

Satellite images show several districts in parts of the city of goods paved from Israeli strikes And demolition last month.

The living and commercial tower blocks in Gaza were an important chapter in the history of the city, which was associated with the hope of ending the occupation Israeli and building an independent Palestinian state.

The rise of multi-storey towers more than five floors after the signing of the Oslo Agreement in 1993, which enabled tens of thousands of Palestinians to return from exile to Gaza and parts of the West Bank.

After the Israeli withdrawal from most of Gaza in 1994, the vertical expansion became a need to take the influx of returnees.

The Palestinian authority encouraged large investments in the construction sector, with entire districts named after the towers.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the intention of confiscating the entire Gaza strip after indirect discussions with Hamas were canceled on a ceasefire and hostage public contract in July.

The United Nations estimates that almost a million people stay in Gaza city, where it explained a famine last month. It warned of an upcoming “catastrophe” when the attack continues.

The Israeli military started a campaign in Gaza in response to the attack on the attack on South Israel led by Hamas on October 7, 2023, in which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.

Since then, at least 63,746 people have been killed in GAZA’s Israeli attacks in Gaza, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in the territory.

The ministry also says that 367 people have died of the consequences of malnutrition and hunger during the war.

Additional reporting from Ruth Comerford