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SvennoJ on 18 April 2024
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Destruction in Beit Hanoon where displaced Palestinians face Israeli incursion and interrogation

Discarded clothes are strewn along a destroyed road in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoon city. The items of clothing are evidence of what locals say was a campaign of mass arrests by Israeli forces, who rounded up all the Palestinian men in the area.

Some were told to run for their lives, others were stripped, blindfolded, handcuffed and brought for interrogation, which involved torture and abuse, a victim of the Israeli operation told Al Jazeera.



UN reports on latest civilian casualties from Israeli ‘air, land and sea’ attacks on Gaza

More than 100 Palestinians were killed and almost 200 injured in Israeli attacks between Monday and Wednesday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports.

The casualty figures from the Ministry of Health in Gaza show that 102 people were killed and 199 injured, including 56 people who died and 89 who were injured in Israeli attacks in the 24 hours between Tuesday and Wednesday night.

The OCHA flash report documents some of the Israeli attacks, including one on Monday and two on Tuesday, which were all against civilian homes in Gaza and resulted in the killing of 13 people, including a child.

Also on Tuesday, seven Palestinian police officers and a civilian were killed when Israeli forces targeted their police vehicle in Gaza City, the report notes.



Intense shelling reported in Gaza City: Wafa

Intense shelling from Israeli artillery has been reported in the southern, southwestern and eastern areas of Gaza City this morning, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports. A number of people were injured in the areas of Sheikh Ijlin, Tal al-Hawa, and Zeitoun in the city in the north of the Gaza Strip, Wafa added.

Israeli warplanes also bombed homes in Tal al-Hawa and the Shati camp in Gaza City, a Wafa correspondent reported.


Israeli tanks push back into northern Gaza, warplanes hit Rafah

Much of Rafah, like the rest of Gaza, is now rubble. Israeli air strikes have repeatedly targeted the area, levelling homes and killing thousands of Palestinians.

Tamam al-Handy, a displaced mother now seeking shelter in Rafah, told Al Jazeera that she fears Israeli forces will launch a ground invasion of the area where so many have fled to for safety.

“We are scared if an invasion takes place in Rafah. Where can we go?” she said.



Israeli Air Force pounds over 40 sites in Gaza in single day, war monitors report

Israel’s Air Force attacked more than 40 sites in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday as Palestinian fighters reported carrying out 14 mortar and rocket-propelled grenade attacks on Israeli forces in the territory’s northern Beit Hanoon city.

The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP), two US-based defence think tanks, said the Israeli air attacks targeted “explosively rigged buildings, observation posts, and underground military infrastructure”.

A group aligned with Hamas, the Popular Resistance Committees, also reported firing a barrage of rockets into Israel on Wednesday that targeted an Israeli military base in the Zikim area, located to the north of the Gaza Strip, the ISW and CTP said.