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The Israeli military began a ground offensive in Gaza City, the Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday, with two IDF divisions moving toward the city. A third was expected to join them.
In images taken from the Israel-Gaza border, plumes of smoke could be seen rising above the city, which is the largest in the Gaza Strip. Large explosions were reported across the city.
About 450,000 people had evacuated Gaza City as of Thursday, according to the IDF.
Four Israel Defense Forces soldiers have been killed in southern Gaza, the IDF said in a release on Thursday.
One cadet was also severely injured, the IDF said.
These are the first deaths the IDF has announced since the start of their Gaza City ground offensive earlier this week.
-ABC News' Jordana Miller
Israeli forces began conducting strikes on what it says are targets belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
Shortly before the IDF said they were striking targets in southern Lebanon, they warned residents in three villages to evacuate buildings they said belonged to Hezbollah, the IDF spokesperson for Arab media Avichay Adraee said in a post on X.
-ABC News' Jordana Miller and Dorit Long
Hundreds of thousands of people have evacuated Gaza City in recent weeks after Israel announced plans to launch a major offensive into the strip's largest urban area -- an operation that began overnight into Tuesday.
People are traveling with their belongings piled on top of flat-bed trucks, in cars, by bike or on foot if necessary.
ABC News spoke with a man who said he was evacuating south on foot.
"This is not life. We're losing. We lost our homes, children and money," Ibrahem Hashem Shamallakh said. "There’s no transportation. There's nothing. I will shelter myself with a blanket if I have to."
Joumana Mabhouh has been displaced several times during the war, she said.
"To displace from north to south, it's not just losing your house, it's losing Gaza itself," Mabhouh said. "We are really tired of these difficult conditions in the Gaza Strip."
Mabhouh said people are traveling south without "basic food supplies."
"As you can see people coming from the north, from north to south without basic food supplies, and the mothers are trying to calm their children with empty hands," she said.
About 400,000 people had evacuated Gaza City as of Wednesday, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Some 600,000 people are thought to remain in Gaza City.
-ABC News’ Diaa Ostaz and Ellie Kaufman
Hospitals across the Gaza Strip recorded 79 deaths -- including nine aid seekers -- and 228 injuries in the past 24 hours due to Israeli military actions, the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health reported on Thursday.
Four people, including a child, also starved to death in Gaza over the previous 24 hours, officials said Thursday. The deaths bring the total number of starvation deaths in Gaza since the war began to 435, which includes 147 children.
Since the war began in October 2023, a total of 65,141 Palestinians have been killed, per the ministry’s data. This includes 2,513 people who were killed while trying to access food at distribution points across the strip since May 28, the ministry said.
-ABC News’ Diaa Ostaz, Somayeh Malekian and Morgan Winsor
