Israel intensifies attacks on Rafah, hits 11 homes
Gaza’s civil defence office said its crews in Rafah are dealing with “several attacks” on inhabited and uninhabited homes in the southern city.
It said Israeli forces have hit 11 homes in the southern area between Sunday evening and the early hours of Monday. The attacks have resulted in dozens of people killed, wounded, and missing under the rubble.
Death toll from Rafah attacks rises to 22
The Wafa news agency is reporting that the death toll from Israeli attacks on Rafah has risen to 22.
The houses hit in Rafah included the homes of the Abu Lebda family, the Al-Attar family, the Shteiwi family, the Al-Hashash family, the Qishta family and the Armilat family.
The victims include eight children, it said. Two of them were killed in the attack on the Abu Lebda home, and four were killed in a raid on the Qishta family.
Baby born after start of Gaza war killed in latest Israeli raids
The latest round of Israeli attacks has killed eight members of the Qishta family, including four children.
Among them was a baby boy born after the start of the war. Hani Mahmoud, who was seven months old, was already an orphan after both his parents had been killed in an air attack in the early days of the war.
Rasha Qishta, a relative, told Al Jazeera that Hani’s mother was eight months pregnant when she was wounded and the doctors managed to deliver her baby. “But she died two hours later. His dad was killed on the spot as well as his auntie and her three children. The baby survived along with his two sisters who were injured,” she said.
“He was born in the war and is now killed in the same war.”
Palestinian group says it targeted Israeli troops in central Gaza
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said its fighters targeted Israeli troops at the so-called Netzarim Corridor with “concentrated rocket barrages” from more than one direction. The corridor, named after the Netzarim Jewish settlement in Gaza that was dismantled in 2005, was built by the Israeli army to separate northern Gaza from its southern part.
Palestinian armed groups carry out frequent attacks against Israeli forces around the corridor.
Palestinian group claims to destroy Israeli army site in central Gaza
Palestinian armed group Mujahideen Brigades has said its fighters destroyed a military site in central Gaza with a barrage of short-range rockets.
The group said on X that the strikes in the so-called Netzarim Corridor were carried out together with the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, another Palestinian armed group. The corridor, named after the Netzarim Jewish settlement in Gaza that was dismantled in 2005, was built by the Israeli army to separate northern Gaza from its southern part.
34,735 Palestinians killed in seven months of Israeli war: Ministry
Israeli forces have killed 34,735 Palestinians in its seven-month war on Gaza, according to the Health Ministry in the besieged enclave. At least 78,108 people have been injured in the relentless Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, the ministry said in a statement on Monday.
Clashes, gunfire as Israeli forces again raid West Bank cities
Israeli forces have launched raids across the occupied West Bank, including in the cities of Tubas, Hebron, Tulkarem and Silwan, according to media reports. The Israeli forces’s pre-dawn raid on Tubas prompted clashes in the city, the Wafa news agency reported. The sound of gunfire could be heard in videos posted online.
Israeli forces detained 15 Palestinians in occupied West Bank: Report
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society have said the detainees included former prisoners, who had previously been released. The detentions were carried out in Qalqiliya, Ramallah, Hebron, Jericho, Bethlehem and Salfit from Sunday night until Monday morning.
This brings the number of Palestinians detained by Israeli forces since October 7 to about 8,590, the organisations said.
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