Fighting raged in the north and south of Gaza as the US military said trucks carrying humanitarian assistance had started moving ashore from a temporary pier in the enclave.
Israeli forces battled Hamas fighters in the narrow alleyways of Jabalia in northern Gaza on Friday in some of the fiercest engagements since they returned to the area a week ago, while in the south militants attacked tanks massing around Rafah. Residents said Israeli armour had thrust as far as the market at the heart of Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's eight historic refugee camps, and that bulldozers were demolishing homes and shops in the path of the advance.
the main UN aid agency for Palestinians , said more than 630,000 people had fled Rafah since the offensive began on 6 May. Many have crowded into Deir al-Balah, a city up the coast that is the only other one in Gaza yet to be assaulted by Israeli forces.
told Reuters on Friday by telephone from Rafah, where he said it was eerily quiet. At the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, where South Africa has accused Israel of violating the Genocide Convention , Israeli Justice Ministry official Gilad Noam defended the operation. Noam said Israel was fighting a war of self-defence and that the military operation in Rafah was not aimed at civilians but at dismantling the last Hamas stronghold.
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