The Israeli army has expanded its “clearance operations” in the Nussayrat refugee camp in Gaza, according to war monitors.
New satellite imagery shows the Israeli army expanding its “clearance operations” northwest of the Nussayrat refugee camp in central Gaza. The expansion was reported in their Gaza war updates by the U.S.-based defense think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP). However, war monitors did not provide a possible motive for the Israeli operation, which comes as the Israeli army’s siege of northern Gaza enters its fourth month. According to the ISW/CTP report, Palestinian Islamic Jihad forces launched mortar fire on Israeli forces south of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza yesterday, while the Israeli army announced that it had found the remains of a second Israeli prisoner killed in a tunnel in Rafah. The remains of another Israeli prisoner were found in the same tunnel on Tuesday. ISW/CTP also notes recent reports that a Hamas official said most of the prisoners held in northern Gaza, where Israel has been conducting its heaviest operations, are “now missing.”
