May 12, 2024
Israel pushes back into northern Gaza, increases military pressure in Rafah
RAFAH: Israel sent tanks into eastern Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip early Sunday after a night of heavy aerial and ground shelling, killing 19 people and wounding dozens more, health officials said. Jabalia is the largest of Gaza’s eight historic refugee camps and is home to more than 100,000 people, most of whom were descendants of Palestinians expelled from towns and villages in present-day Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that led to the creation of the state of Israel. Late Saturday, the Israeli military said forces operating in Jabalia were preventing Hamas, which controls Gaza, from reestablishing its


