Israeli tanks forged deeper into eastern Rafah on Tuesday, reaching some residential districts of the southern border city where more than a million people had been sheltering after being displaced due the war against Hamas in Gaza.
“The tanks advanced this morning west of Salahuddin Road into the Brzail and Jneina neighborhoods. They are in the streets inside the built-up area and there are clashes,” one resident told Reuters via a chat app.
Video on social media showed one tank on George Street in Al-Jneina neighborhood. Reuters could not verify the video.
In a round-up of its activities, the IDF said its forces had eliminated several armed cells in close-quarter fighting on the Gazan side of the Rafah Border Crossing with Egypt. In the east of the city, it said, it had also destroyed cells of gunmen and a launch post from where missiles were being fired at IDF troops.
The latest fighting in Gaza came as Israel marked a dour Independence Day with subdued events in the shadow of October 7 and the seven-month-old war.
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