mondoweiss has some gaza news on the palestinians returning to north gaza;

Families carry their belongings and everything they own in small bags and leave in droves. In the background behind them is thick black smoke, while the sound of shelling, artillery, and intense gunfire never stops. What makes this scene different from all the other stages of this genocidal war is that it is happening in the town of Jabalia and Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza — the place where Israel had declared at the start of the year that Hamas’s military presence had been effectively eliminated. 

Five months later, the Israeli army is going back in and launching a large-scale military operation in northern Gaza. It is proceeding in tandem with the invasion of Rafah to the south. One crime to cover up another.

The reason for the second invasion of the north has been plastered on computer and phone screens over the past few days: improbable videos of fighters from the Qassam Brigades (Hamas’s military wing) launching complex attacks on Israeli forces, including rocket and mortar attacks, traps and ambushes of soldiers, and the targeting of tanks. The fact that it is happening now as Israel has started its invasion of Rafah is also not a coincidence..............more........