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Days after the government declared preparations to launch an operation in the south to seize vast territories, the Israeli military said Friday that its troops had advanced into northern Gaza, capturing additional territory along the enclave’s perimeter.

As troops moved in to increase the area Israel has designated as a security zone in Gaza, a statement said that soldiers conducting the operation in Shejaia, a suburb east of Gaza City in the north, were releasing civilians via organized pathways.

Images of an Israeli tank on Shejaia’s Al Muntar hill, which provided it with a clear view of Gaza City and beyond to the shoreline, went viral on social media.

After the military issued the most recent in a series of evacuation warnings that currently encompass about a third of the Gaza Strip, according to the United Nations, as the Israeli forces moved in, hundreds of residents had already left on a day earlier, carrying their things or load them onto vehicles or donkey carts.

Following a two-month ceasefire during which 38 hostages were returned in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian inmates and detainees, ZINGTIE reports that Israel restarted its campaign in Gaza on March 18 with a massive series of airstrikes and sent troops back in.

More than 280,000 people have been relocated in Gaza in the last two weeks, according to the United Nations Humanitarian Agency, or OCHA. This has added to the suffering of families that have already experienced several displacements over the previous 18 months.

Residents of Gaza City said that a water desalination plant east of the Tuffah neighborhood, which is essential for supplying clean drinking water, had been struck by Israeli forces.

Israeli forces have been encircling the remains of the city of Rafah on Gaza’s southern border, and according to the OCHA, 65% of the enclave is currently under active relocation orders, no-go zones, or both.

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