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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Several Israeli army bulldozers entered the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning and leveled lands near the Jabaliya refugee camp.

Witnesses told Ma’an that four Israeli D9 bulldozers razed and leveled dozens of meters of lands near the al-Shuhada cemetery in the eastern part of Jabaliya refugee camp.

An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an she would look into reports on the incident.

Israeli military incursions inside the besieged Gaza Strip and near the “buffer zone," which lies on both land and sea sides of Gaza, have long been a near-daily occurrence.

The Israeli army also regularly detains and opens fire on unarmed Palestinian fishermen, shepherds, and farmers along the border areas if they approach the buffer zone, as the authorities have not made clear the precise area of the designated zone.

The practice has in effect destroyed much of the agricultural and fishing sector of the blockaded coastal enclave.