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SvennoJ on 28 March 2024
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Israeli forces launch air attacks across northern Gaza

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli forces have launched air attacks on northern Gaza, including Gaza City and the Shati and Jabalia refugee camps. The attacks targeted residential buildings in Gaza City’s Remal neighbourhood and an electrical appliances centre in Jabalia, causing a fire to break out there.

AJA also said Israeli forces have launched artillery attacks in the vicinity of the al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City.



Three Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Beit Lahiya

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that at least three people were killed and 20 other wounded in an Israeli raid on a home in the Shujaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City. Al Jazeera Arabic also said there were casualties as a result of an Israeli attack on Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza.

Al-Shifa fighting indicates Palestinians maintain ‘significant combat effectiveness’: Monitors

Palestinian fighters have carried out almost 70 attacks against Israeli forces in the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City since March 18, when the Israeli military returned to the area, war monitors report.

“This high rate of attack indicates that Palestinian militias retain a significant degree of combat effectiveness in the area, despite continued Israeli clearing efforts around Gaza City,” the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) said in their latest Gaza battlefield assessment.

The US-based think tanks said at least six armed Palestinian groups are battling Israeli forces deployed around al-Shifa Hospital. Despite Israel completing a “clearing operation” in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood on March 3, Israeli forces returned to the area on Wednesday, a move which suggests Palestinian fighters continue to operate there as they do elsewhere in Gaza City, according to the latest ISW/CTP report.



Israeli forces kill Palestinian journalist in al-Shifa Hospital

Local media is reporting that Israeli forces have shot and killed Palestinian journalist Muhammad Abu Sakhil at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. Abu Sakhil, a reporter with Palestinian outlet Sawt al-Quds Radio, joins the almost 100 Palestinian journalists killed by Israeli attacks since October 7.

Israeli forces stormed al-Shifa Hospital with tanks and heavy gunfire on March 18 and have been laying siege to it since. The military says it’s targeting “terrorists” sheltering inside the medical facility, claiming it has killed some 175 Palestinian fighters and arrested 500 more during the siege.

Scores of civilians have also been killed, however, with witnesses saying Israeli forces have carried out “execution-style” killings.


Israel accused of ‘executing’ 13 children near al-Shifa in one week

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has accused Israeli forces of directly shooting at and executing 13 children in and near al-Shifa Hospital in just one week.

The monitoring group, citing its teams on the ground, said some of the fatal shootings occurred as victims’ families were inside their homes amid Israel’s continuing raid on al-Shifa, and others while the victims were attempting to escape via routes designated as safe.

In one testimony, Islam Ali Salouha told Euro-Med that Israeli forces on Sunday shot at and killed his sons – nine-year-old Ali and six-year-old Saeed Muhammad Sheikha – on a corpse-strewn street near al-Shifa that the Israeli army had designated for travel. The Israeli forces targeted the two children in particular, he said.

Salouha said he, his sons and neighbours only left the building because Israeli forces had told them to evacuate or face having their building bombed.

Destruction near al-Shifa Hospital leaves neighbourhood ‘unrecognisable’

It’s getting very difficult to keep up with the ongoing atrocities in Gaza. The past 24 hours were very difficult here in Rafah, with more mass killings and destruction of residential homes and agricultural land.

Israeli forces have continued their attacks in and around al-Shifa Hospital. They are not only causing a great deal of damage to the medical complex but systematically destroying homes in the area.

We are looking at an entire residential neighbourhood near the hospital that has been destroyed, rendered beyond recognition. It appears to be a systematic attempt to clear out the area.

Destruction of Gaza City by Israeli attacks







Al-Asra City neighbourhood being shelled

We’re getting reports of heavy shelling by Israeli jets on the al-Asra City residential neighbourhood which is northwest of Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip.

Gaza Civil Defence says 65 staff killed in al-Shifa Hospital area

Gaza’s Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal has told Al Jazeera that the Israeli army killed 65 of its members in the area of the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

Clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters are ongoing around the medical facility. The al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), earlier claimed to have targeted Israeli soldiers with mortar shells amid fierce clashes around the compound.