(9 Jul 2025)
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Southern Israel – 9 July 2025
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1. Various of explosions seen in northern Gaza Strip at night
2. Several explosions and black smoke seen rising in northern Gaza Strip at dusk
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Southern Israel overlooking Gaza Strip – 9 July 2025
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3. Multiple explosions seen in northern Gaza Strip
STORYLINE:
Multiple explosions were seen in northern Gaza on Wednesday afternoon as the Israeli military reported that additional troops have joined the forces in the enclave.
The army said in a statement that a division has joined the troops there "and begun operations to encircle Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip."
Five Israeli soldiers were killed earlier in the week in this area.
This came as U.S. President Donald Trump pushed for a ceasefire that might end the war and free dozens of Israeli hostages.
Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the second time in two days at the White House on Tuesday evening, but there was no sign of a breakthrough.
Netanyahu has vowed to continue the 21-month war until Hamas is destroyed, while the militant group has said it will only release the remaining hostages in return for a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza.
The war started after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and taking 251 hostage.
Most of the hostages have been released in earlier ceasefires.
Israel’s offensive in Gaza has killed more than 57,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The ministry, which is under Gaza’s Hamas-run government, doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants. The U.N. and other international organizations see its figures as the most reliable statistics on war casualties.
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