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Israeli strike hits Khan Younis home
An air strike targeted a family home in the area of Fukhari, east of Khan Younis, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. The extent of casualties remains unclear. Meanwhile, more Israeli air raids took place in the western part of Rafah, following earlier reports of overnight strikes on a home in the southernmost city of Gaza that killed at least five.
Israeli airpower pounds Gaza as ground forces poised for Rafah invasion: Monitors
The Israeli Air Force carried out more than 50 strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, war monitors report, as military officials reiterated that their forces are “fully prepared” for a ground invasion of Rafah.
According to the latest battlefield update from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP), Israeli officials have said that the Rafah invasion order needs only the “approval” of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
A plan for the evacuation of civilians from Rafah – where some 1.5 million Palestinians are sheltering – was said to be on Netanyahu’s desk, the US-based defence think tanks report. While no timeline for the ground invasion of Rafah has been given, the evacuation operation is expected to take about a month.
Also on Wednesday, the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement carried out rocket attacks from Gaza against three towns in southern Israel.
‘The tragedy keeps unfolding’: Attack drones kill 2 in Rafah
A surge in attack drones flying over Rafah has taken place over the past couple of hours. At least two people have been hit in what appears to be targeted killings – one in the western part of the city and the other in the east. They were killed when the drones fired missiles about half an hour apart.
At the same time, the Israeli military continues to pound areas in central Gaza. People were told to evacuate to the Wadi Gaza area, only to find themselves caught in the line of fire. Four people have been reported killed in Wadi Gaza. Injuries have also been reported at the Nuseirat camp and surrounding areas.
The tragedy keeps unfolding. The destruction is overwhelming. Everywhere you go you see rubble-filled roads.
Two children among those killed in Rafah strike
Two people killed in an overnight strike on a home in Rafah were young children, identified in hospital records as Sham Najjar, six, and Jamal Nabahan, eight.
They are among more than 14,500 children killed in the enclave since Israel’s war on Gaza began, with thousands more wounded.
This means more than 2 percent of Gaza’s entire child population has been killed or maimed during the war, according to the humanitarian group Save the Children.
Palestinians killed, wounded from artillery fire in Nuseirat
Israeli artillery shelling has killed and wounded more Palestinians north of the Nuseirat refugee camp, report our colleagues on the ground.
At the same time, Israeli bombardment hit a home near the Bureij refugee camp causing casualties.
