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SvennoJ on 26 March 2024
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Israel continues weeks of ‘re-clearing’ operations in north Gaza: Monitors

At least seven armed Palestinian groups are battling Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip and Israel has carried out “multi-week operations” to “re-clear” areas in the north of the territory where Palestinian fighters are based, war monitors report.

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP), two US-based military think tanks, said Israeli forces are also conducting a “second round of clearing operations” in the west of Khan Younis in the south of Gaza.

The focus of the Israeli “re-clearing” operation is Khan Younis’s al-Amal neighbourhood, the ISW and CTP said in their latest battlefield report.

On Sunday, Palestinian fighters in Gaza fired eight rockets at southern Israel’s Ashdod, the first reported attack on the city since mid-January, as well as rockets fired at Israel’s Beeri region. On Monday, rockets were fired at Sderot city, the latest ISW/CTP report states.



No let-up in Israeli attacks despite UNSC resolution

We are currently inside the emergency department at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza. The hospital is packed with wounded people after Israeli forces targeted a house in az-Zawayda in central Gaza. This is the first attack after the resolution passed by the UN Security Council. We see women, we see children wounded.

Eyewitnesses tell us that children and babies were killed in the attack. After the UN resolution passed, Palestinians thought that they won’t be bombed in the Gaza Strip. But still, Palestinians continue to be killed and wounded.


Palestinian mourners react next to the bodies of relatives killed in an Israeli strike at Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, March 25, 2024

Homes targeted near al-Shifa

Israeli strikes are continuing to hit homes near Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, where clashes are continuing after a more than week-long siege of the facility, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

Israeli forces are also shelling other areas of northern Gaza, including Beit Hanoon, eastern Jabalia and Beit Lahiya, our colleagues report.

Israeli jets strike more than 60 targets across Gaza: Army

Israeli warplanes have hit more than 60 targets across Gaza, mainly in support of the ground forces, according to the Israeli army. The targets included attack tunnels and buildings where fighters were present, a statement on X said.

It said the army’s operation at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital continues, with troops killing several fighters and capturing weapons over the past day. The army also reportedly struck the launch sites in northern Gaza, from which rockets were fired towards the southern Israeli city of Sderot yesterday.

The statement added that troops continued their raids in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, seized weapons and military equipment, killed fighters and destroyed infrastructure. The Israeli army has been conducting large-scale operations around al-Shifa Hospital and in Khan Younis.


Death toll from Rafah attack rises to 18

Eighteen people have been killed in an overnight Israeli bombing of a house in Rafah, with nine children among the victims, according to our colleagues reporting on the ground.

Israeli shelling in the Nassr neighbourhood, northeast of Rafah, has also caused casualties.

Israeli air strike near al-Shifa kills 30 people: Report

An Israeli air strike on a family home near al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City has killed 30 people, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reports, citing local medical sources.

Intense fighting has taken place in and around al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest medical facility, for more than a week as Israeli forces continue large-scale operations there.