Dozens reported killed as Israeli military renews strikes on Gaza City
Dozens of Palestinians have been reported killed in Gaza City over the past 24 hours, with the Israeli military issuing a new evacuation order for parts of the city on Monday as it renews assaults on areas from which it had previously withdrawn forces.
At least 20 Palestinians were killed by an Israeli air attack on a home in the Al-Sabra neighbourhood in Gaza City in northern Gaza, the Wafa news agency reports. The majority of the victims are women and children.
Earlier, we reported that at least 25 civilians were killed by Israeli shelling of a home in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood.
At least five Palestinians were killed by an Israeli air attack on the al-Awda Hospital compound in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. Sections of the hospital are out of service and several ambulances have been damaged.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society also said that it was trying to rescue a six-year-old girl trapped in a car after six members of her family were killed by an Israeli strike on the vehicle – also in Gaza City. The PRCS said after hours of coordination, its rescuers arrived in the area where the girl was. “Since then, we lost contact with the team, and as of now, we are uncertain if our teams successfully reached the girl,” it said.
Women, children flee UNRWA shelter amid Israeli strikes, shelling, raids: Wafa
The Palestinian state news agency, Wafa, is reporting that dozens of women and children have fled a UNRWA shelter in Gaza City after it was raided by Israeli forces. Israeli forces arrested dozens of men sheltering at the UNRWA facility, with women and children reportedly held inside by soldiers while the men were taken away, according to witness reports told to Wafa.
The displaced women and children have sought shelter at the Baptist Hospital amid continued Israeli strikes and artillery shelling of western areas of the city, Wafa reports.
Home, mosque bombed in Israeli bombardments in south and central Gaza
Our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues are reporting Israeli bombardments and fighting in south and central Gaza tonight:
- A house was bombed in the Al-Jeneina neighbourhood in central Rafah
- An unspecified target was bombed in the Nuseirat camp, with artillery shelling continuing
- The Al-Farouq Mosque in Khan Younis refugee camp was bombed, with heavy gunfire ongoing
- Clashes and bombings have been reported in the Batn al-Sameen area and the Al-Amal neighbourhood of Khan Younis.
The scale of possible casualties is not known at this stage.
Replace Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory with “protection” force: UN envoy
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has again called for Israel’s military occupation of Palestinian territory to be replaced by a “protection presence”, in a post on social media highlighting the daily abuses inflicted by Israeli forces on people under their control.
Accompanying a video clip showing an Israeli soldier physically assaulting a young Palestinian boy in Hebron for no apparent reason, Albanese said: “This is what Apartheid enforced through military rule looks like”. Describing the assault on the boy as “an unchilding experience”, the UN envoy on the human rights situation in occupied Palestinian territories said Israel’s military needs to be replaced as it had “proven unwilling and unable to act as a good faith occupier for decades” and for “generations of Palestinians”.
Five Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in Jenin allege torture
Five Palestinians arrested by the Israeli military during a raid on the city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Monday say that they were tortured in custody, Wafa reports. The men were taken to an Israeli settlement called Mabu Dothan south of Jenin, where they say soldiers handcuffed, blindfolded and beat them over the course of 10 hours. Israeli soldiers also submerged them in cold water, the men said.
The men were transferred to the Ibn Sina Hospital in Jenin on their release.
Israeli forces destroy power and water lines in refugee camps
Local media reports ongoing raids by Israeli forces in the Nur Shams refugee camp and the Tulkarem refugee camp near the city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli military is restricting movement in the camps while its bulldozers damage infrastructure including roads, water, internet and electricity lines, the Wafa news agency reports. Footage published by local media shows water flowing from a large storage tank in the Nur Shams camp.
Elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, raids and arrests have been reported in the following locations:
- The town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah
- The town of Ya’bad in Jenin
- The town of Burqa, northwest of Nablus
- A man was arrested in the Al-Arroub camp in Hebron
- A man was arrested in the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah
- The Israeli military fired tear gas at Palestinian men walking in the street in Bethlehem
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