Attacks continue
Head of police killed in Israeli attack on Jabalia camp: Health Ministry
Palestinian health officials have said an Israeli air strike killed Rudwan Rudwan, the head of the police force in Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas said Rudwan was also in charge of supervising the protection of aid truck convoys in northern Gaza areas.
Israeli attack north of Nuseirat refugee camp hits school: Report
An Israeli attack to the north of the Nuseirat refugee camp has hit a school, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic report, citing Palestinian sources. It said one person was killed and several injured.
More strikes on Nuseirat camp
Israeli military helicopters have dropped bombs on the northern part of Nuseirat camp, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, following our earlier reports of an attack on a school in the area. Nuseirat has repeatedly come under fire in recent days as Israeli forces intensify operations.
We’re getting reports from the northern part of Nuseirat refugee camp of ongoing artillery shelling, air strikes and constant shots from quadcopters. Most people injured in these attacks are being transferred to al-Awda Hospital, a small health facility on the other side of the camp. The reason is that the road that goes to al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah city is quite dangerous, so there is a risk for civil defence crews to drive there.
So far there have been five people killed inside residential homes and evacuation centres in the camp. Also at least 70 people injured in Israeli attacks on Nuseirat camp in central Gaza have been brought to the camp’s al-Awda Hospital since Friday morning, our colleagues on the ground are reporting.
Among those injured in the latest strikes are two journalists, including from the TRT Arabi channel.
TRT journalist loses foot after being wounded in Nuseirat attack
Sami Shehadeh has had his foot amputated after being wounded earlier today in an Israeli attack on Nuseirat camp, according to TRT channel. He was among a group of journalists, including TRT Arabi correspondent Sami Berhum, to be wounded while covering the Israeli attacks on the camp in central Gaza.
TRT’s Director General Zahid Sobaci denounced the attack that wounded the channel’s journalists, saying it had gone beyond all “moral, legal or humanitarian limits”.
More violence, more attacks, more death across Gaza
This is the third day of the Eid holiday – these were supposed to be days of celebrations and festivities across the Gaza Strip but they have largely been shrouded by fear and panic. More violence, more air strikes, more death and destruction across the Strip, particularly in the northern and central parts.
The Israeli military is still operating aggressively in the area of the northern part of Nuseirat refugee camp and also the southern area of Wadi Gaza, an area that had been designated as safe for people to evacuate to in the initial weeks of the war. At least five people have been killed and several injured, including people inside an UNRWA-run school for evacuees.
The fact that there are also attack drones in the area is causing a great deal of panic and concern for a really traumatised population who’s been on the move, trying to flee to and get to safety.
Meanwhile in Gaza City, in the early hours of this morning, a residential home full of people was targeted and destroyed. There are reports that 25 people of the same family have been pronounced dead.
Israeli forces strike Gaza City home, kill 29
At least 29 people have been found killed in the Israeli attack on a home in Gaza City’s Daraj neighbourhood, with dozens more wounded, reports the Wafa news agency. Wafa reported that Israeli aircraft launched raids on a house belonging to the Tabatibi family, in the Sidra area of the Daraj neighbourhood in central Gaza City.
Footage of the aftermath of the attack posted by Al Jazeera Arabic shows rescuers carrying bodies from the rubble of a blown-out building.
Elsewhere in Gaza City, Israeli helicopters carried out strikes on several homes in the Zeitoun, Shujayea and Remal neighbourhoods, wounding many civilians, according to Wafa.
Gaza death toll reaches 33,634
At least 89 more people have been killed in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, taking the overall death toll since the war began to at least 33,634, according to the latest figures by the Health Ministry. Meanwhile, 120 others were wounded, with the overall figure of injured people reaching 76,214
“Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” the ministry said.
