Israeli strikes kill 9 Palestinians as Tel Aviv erects new bases in Gaza

Israeli forces have launched deadly airstrikes against residential apartments in the Gaza Strip, leaving a multitude of casualties, including children, as the occupying regime erects new military positions across the Palestinian territory.

Israeli airstrikes targeted the residential areas in western and northern Gaza City, setting homes ablaze and leaving widespread destruction, according to media reports on Thursday, citing local sources.

The local sources said the Israeli attacks left at least nine Palestinians dead and 20 others wounded.

Video footage of the scenes showed people and first responders saving the victims, while ambulances transported the casualties to hospitals.

One local source from the Al-Shifa Hospital reported four residential apartments in Gaza City had been struck in the Israeli attacks.

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As the Israeli regime ramps up its attacks on Gaza, satellite imagery shows that as many as forty new Israeli military positions have been set up across the territory. 

The satellite imagery revealed that Israeli forces were constructing heavy military infrastructure in strategic locations across the Palestinian land.

An investigation found that eight of the Israeli military positions were newly constructed and after the October 2025 ceasefire had gone into effect.

Two of the military positions were built in northern Gaza, two in the central region, one east of the Netzarim Corridor, and three in the southern city of Khan Younis. One of the positions was still under construction.

Israeli forces are not only erecting new bases, but also, strengthening and expanding the existing ones.

Israeli forces have reinforced the military position directly atop the ruins of the Eastern Cemetery in Khan Younis.

In total, the Israeli regime has set up 40 military positions inside Gaza connected by a network of earthen berms, trenches, and internal military roads.

The Israeli military positions encircle the Palestinian population centers, surrounding them from multiple directions in violation of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire.

The 21-point Gaza peace plan calls for ending hostilities, withdrawing Israeli occupying forces, allowing humanitarian aid entry, and disarming Hamas, the resistance movement that rules Gaza.

Israeli forces continue to violate the ceasefire agreement declared on October 10, 2025, restricting humanitarian aid entry, and killing 936 Palestinians, most of them women and children, since then. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confessed at a news conference that he had issued orders to the regime's forces to permanently seize the vast majority of the Palestinian land.

"We now control 60 percent of the territory," he said recently.

After one of  Netanyahu's supporters in the crowd demanded the complete annexation of the Palestinian land, he responded, "Let's go step by step. First of all, 70. Let's start with that."

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