The IDF on Wednesday afternoon ordered a broad evacuation of Palestinians from northern Gaza, including portions of Zeitoun, Rimal, Tel-al-awa and two other areas.
Adding these evacuations to earlier evacuations from Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun, and Jabalia, most of the northern Gaza areas which are important to Hamas, other than the downtown part of Gaza City itself, Shejaiya, and Shaati, have now been evacuated.
The IDF said that rockets fired earlier Wednesday from those areas had been responsible for an unidentified impact near Zimrat in the Gaza Corridor.
The Gazan rocket fire earlier Wednesday, claimed by Islamic Jihad, was not successful in terms of killing anyone, but one of the two rockets fired did get through and Gazan terror groups have now shown the capability to continually fire two to three rockets at a time several times since last week.
Since fighting in Gaza was renewed at the beginning of last week, the IDF has killed 150 terrorists, including 10 top Hamas officials, the Jerusalem Post learned Tuesday.
Additionally, the military has targeted 430 terror infrastructure sites, including buildings, tunnels, and vehicles.
In certain areas, the military has entered a full kilometer into Gaza, such as around the Nitzanim Corridor in central Gaza.
IDF evacuations
Also, the IDF has aggressively attacked and evacuated areas from which terrorists have fired rockets.
In addition to central Gaza and northern Gaza, the IDF has also evacuated Palestinian civilians and then attacked in parts of Khan Yunis, Shaboura, and Tel Sultan.
IDF sources were still not ready to give an accounting of the full Palestinian death toll following Hamas reports that over 700 Palestinians have been killed.
Also, earlier this week Hamas claimed that the total Palestinian death toll from the war crossed 50,000. Israel has said at least 20,000 were Hamas terrorists and has disputed aspects of the numbers, while acknowledging a large number of civilians have been unintentionally caught up in the war as part of Hamas's systematic human shields strategy.
Meanwhile, the IDF publicized footage and summaries of recent attacks in Syria.
It noted that on both Tuesday and last week, the air force had struck strategic military capabilities of the old Syrian regime that were left behind in the critical Tadmor and T-4 bases.
Collectively the air force struck 18 targets in Syria over the course of the last week.
Likewise in Lebanon, the air force struck over 40 targets both in southern and deeper parts of Lebanon, following last weekend’s firing of six rockets from Lebanon at Israel, three of which fell in Lebanon and three of which were shot down in Israeli territory near Metulla.
Finally, the air force noted that it has shot down 14 aerial threats over the course of the last week, including six ballistic missiles from the Houthis of Yemen.
Further, the IDF announced on Wednesday night that it had completed a large military exercise on the Lebanese border involving forces from Divisions 91 and 146, in coordination with the air force and the navy.