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Israeli forces bomb central Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting renewed Israeli air raids on the towns of az-Zawayda and al-Mughraqa in the central Gaza Strip.
Palestinian death toll from war on Gaza now at 34,454: Health Ministry
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 34,454 Palestinians since last October, the Health Ministry says. The latest figure includes at least 66 deaths in the past 24 hours, it said in a statement. The death toll includes more than 14,500 children and 9,500 women. At least 77,575 people have been wounded in the relentless assault.
The actual casualty figures are likely much higher, with thousands believed buried in the debris of blown-up buildings in Gaza.
Rafah attack: ‘Anywhere you shoot you’ll kill a bystander’
Omar Ashour from the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies says it appears an invasion of Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah is inevitable with an estimated 30,000 Israeli soldiers set to attack the overcrowded area on Egypt’s border.
“You have about five brigades at the nearest military base to Gaza who are rested, refitted, and recuperated. If you look at the Khan Younis operation, you had nine brigades and it took them about 60 days of fighting. I think it will be a similar situation in Rafah,” Ashour told Al Jazeera.
He noted Israel has bought tens of thousands of tents to move about 500,000 civilians out of Rafah. Still, that will leave about one million people in the area if Israeli forces launch a ground incursion.
“It’s three times the population density before the Gaza invasion. There will be intense fighting. In this situation, anywhere you shoot you will kill someone who is a bystander – a child, a woman passing by, an elderly person.”
‘Completely disfigured’: Children severely wounded in Nuseirat camp
The Gaza Health Ministry reports at least 66 people were killed and 138 others wounded in Gaza over the past 24 hours.
In the central area, Mohammed al-Hattab said he found his one-year-old son in the rubble after an Israeli air attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp. The boy is being treated for a fractured skull while his two-year-old sister’s face was “completely disfigured” in the attack.
The Israeli military said its jets struck dozens of targets including “launch sites, armed terrorists and observation posts”.
Israeli airstrike targets a residential building in Rafah
There’s just been an attack in eastern Rafah City in the past half an hour. An air strike targeted a home in the Brazil neighbourhood, a densely populated area. Thousands of people set up tents on the footpaths, in the middle of the road or inside homes where they have taken shelter since the beginning of this war.
Reports are coming in of multiple injuries. We don’t have a confirmed number of how many people were killed in that attack. An eyewitness said a flat inside a residential building was targeted.
There were separate attacks in the central northern areas of the Gaza Strip, with constant ongoing artillery shelling since the early hours of this morning and loud explosions.
