Last Updated on October 30, 2023 3: 35pm

Heavy clashes have been reported from the outskirts of Gaza City of Palestine between soldiers of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) and Hamas fighters.

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The clashes erupted after Israeli tanks reached the outskirts of Gaza City and they cut a key road that connects north with the south of besieged Gaza Strip.

Palestinian sources told Al Jazeera that Israeli tanks made an incursion towards Salah al-Din Street, in the middle of the Gaza City governorate.

“They have cut the Salah al-Din road and are firing at any vehicle that tries to go along it,” a resident told AFP news agency.

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“There’s absolutely no ground advance inside the residential neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip. What happened on Salah al-Din Street was the incursion of a few occupation army tanks and a bulldozer,” head of the Hamas government office in Gaza Salama Maarouf said in a statement.

“These vehicles targeted two civilian cars on Salah al-Din Street and bulldozed the street before the resistance forced them to retreat. There is currently no presence of occupation army vehicles on Salah al-Din Road, and citizen movement has returned to normal on the road.”

(This is a breaking story. More details awaited)