Fierce clashes in Jabalia as Israeli forces thrust deeper into refugee camp
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting intense fighting in Jabalia in northern Gaza, as Israeli troops try to penetrate into the centre of the refugee camp.
Al Jazeera Arabic reports that Israeli troops are clashing with Palestinian fighters on the ground, while Israeli jets are bombing block 2 and block 4 of the Jabalia refugee camp. The attacks have resulted in a number of casualties, although the exact toll was not immediately clear.
Israeli forces fire on ambulances in Jabalia
Al Jazeera Arabic says Israeli forces are firing on ambulances trying to reach the wounded as Israeli air strikes pound crowded residential areas within the refugee camp.
Israel reports at least 50 soldiers wounded in past 24 hours
There is a clear expansion of the fighting to the northern portion of Rafah city as ground battles are still raging between Hamas fighters and Israeli soldiers. There is notable advancement for Israeli military tanks into al-Jnaina and as-Salam neighbourhoods.
There is a gradual expansion of the fighting as the military tanks are pushing deeper. They have been confronted by the Palestinian armed groups in these areas with short-range missiles and antitank missiles are being used to attack these military tanks.
The Israeli army has announced that at least 50 of its soldiers had been wounded in operations in the past 24 hours.
We have been hearing from eyewitnesses that it seems Israel is expanding and paving the way for further escalation of attacks.
Child among four killed in Israeli attack on Rafah
An Israeli air attack on a house in the Brazil neighbourhood of Rafah has killed four people, including a young girl, according to the Wafa news agency.
Earlier, the Palestinian Civil Defence said Israeli drones fired on rescue workers trying to reach a building after it was bombed in the Brazil neighbourhood, which is located in southeast Rafah.
More civilian casualties in Rafah, Jabalia refugee camp
Israeli military operations are ongoing on the ground, in both Rafah and the Jabalia refugee camp.
In Jabalia, the Israeli tanks and troops are advancing deeper into the eastern and central parts of the camp with raging battles between the army and the Palestinian groups. The situation is becoming particularly dire with the Israeli military managing to encircle and besiege six evacuation centres in that densely populated area.
In Rafah, battles are ongoing and in high intensity in the eastern part of the district. There are also bombardments of the central and western parts of Rafah, where at least five Palestinians have been killed in overnight strikes.
We have been hearing from medical sources on the ground that injured people keep arriving at the hospital despite the difficulty of emergency workers’ operations on the ground because of the unprecedented scale of air strikes that Rafah district has witnessed over the past six days.
Israel expands Rafah offensive
Israeli forces issue evacuation orders for Kuwaiti hospital in Rafah
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah in the Gaza Strip, says medical staff at the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah have received an evacuation order from Israeli forces.
He said although the situation in the area has been “dire”, until today, the Israeli forces had not placed a call to the hospital’s director. Medics based at the hospital fear that an attack on the hospital would mean a “complete collapse” of the limited medical system in Rafah, he added.
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