‘Pray for me, they are heavily shelling the area’
From the UK, Ibrahim Assalia was on the phone with his brother in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp as Israeli forces were attacking.
“Pray for me, they are heavily shelling the area,” Assalia recalled his brother as saying.
His brother survived the Saturday attack, but the Israeli army bombed six houses to rubble and killed 26 members of Assalia’s family, he told Al Jazeera from the UK. “They were in their homes, no one told them to leave,” he said.
The Israeli attack came as a surprise, Assalia said, since life had slowly been returning to normal with the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the north of Gaza. Now, the surviving members of Assalia’s family in the enclave are trying to leave the Jabalia area, as Israeli forces continue attacking the north.
Residences shelled in Jabalia, northern Gaza [Courtesy of Ibrahim Assalia]
Israeli settlers attack Palestinians in occupied West Bank: Report
Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians and setting their land on fire near the village of Madama south of Nablus, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reports.
Israeli forces are preventing other Palestinians from accessing the area to stop the settlers, the news agency said.
In the Bethlehem area, settlers also stole large quantities of wheat and barley crops from Palestinian farmers, Wafa reported.
The incident took place in the village of al-Minya southeast of Bethlehem, where settlers also attacked farmers and sheep herders, Wafa added.
Women, children among survivors rescued from rubble after Israeli shelling in Beit Lahiya
Palestinian activists have posted videos on Instagram documenting rescuers and civilians helping to evacuate survivors from the ruins of a building that was shelled by Israeli forces in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza.
Women and children were among the people rescued from the destroyed building. The video has been verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification agency.
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Three killed in Israeli air strike in central Gaza
The Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza says its crews have recovered three bodies from the rubble of a building hit by an Israeli air strike in the central part of the enclave.
It said the attack, which also injured multiple people, targeted a family home near the al-Sharafa Roundabout in the northern Gaza Governorate.
Palestinian Civil Defence crews search for survivors and bodies under the rubble after an Israeli air strike on central Gaza on May 13
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