The armed wing of Hamas said late Friday its fighters were battling Israeli forces inside Gaza, after Israel said it would expand its ground operations against the Palestinian militant group in the territory.
"We are confronting an Israeli ground incursion in Beit Hanoun and in east Bureij and violent engagements are taking place on the ground," the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement. Israeli military spokesman Major Nir Dinar told AFP: "Our troops are operating inside Gaza as they did yesterday." Israeli ground forces made limited ground incursions on Wednesday and Thursday nights.
The "outcome will be a humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions for years to come", Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi warned on X, formerly Twitter, from New York where he was attending the UN General Assembly meeting. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees had earlier warned that "many more will die" in Gaza from catastrophic shortages after nearly three weeks of bombardment by Israel.
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