Israeli military says it has pulled out of Jabalia

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******** military says it has pulled out of Jabalia

******** forces have pulled out of Jabalia in northern Gaza, after a three-week offensive there which saw tens of thousands of civilians flee the area.

The military said “hundreds of terrorists [had been] eliminated” and 10km (6 miles) of tunnels destroyed during the operation.

Pictures from Jabalia show widespread destruction, with multi-storey buildings reduced to rubble or bombed out shells.

The ******* Defense Forces (IDF) had gone back into the city months after pulling out, saying that ****** was regrouping there.

During the operation, the bodies of seven Israelis ******* during the ****** ******* on ******* on 7 October and taken to Gaza were discovered and repatriated.

The Times of ******* said IDF officers had described the fighting in Jabalia as some of the most intense of the war. The IDF said ****** had “turned the civilian area into a fortified combat compound, fired towards the troops from sheltered areas and schools, and built an underground ********** network from within civilian buildings”.

It said it had destroyed rocket launchers “ready for use” and several weapons production sites.

The IDF’s second ground operation in Jabalia came four months after it had declared it had dismantled ******’s military capabilities in northern Gaza.

The war itself

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, a key aide to ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, the prospect of renewed ceasefire talks has further dimmed after ****** said on Thursday that it would not negotiate “in light of [*******’s] aggression, ********, siege, starvation and genocide of our people”.

It said it had told mediators that it would be ready to reach “a complete agreement” if ******* stopped the war. ******* has said it will ****** on until it has achieved its aims of destroying ****** and returning its hostages.

The war began in October when ****** gunmen launched an unprecedented ******* on *******, ******** about 1,200 people and taking 252 back to Gaza as hostages.

More than 36,000 people in Gaza have been ******* in the ******** offensive, the territory’s ******-run health ministry says.

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