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SvennoJ on 23 May 2024
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Israeli military bombs apartment in Gaza City, killing 10

The Israeli military has bombed an apartment complex in Gaza City, killing at least 10 people, the Wafa news agency reports. Women and children were killed in the strike on the apartment, which belongs to the al-Ayoubi family and is located in the Shabiyah area of ​​Gaza City, northern Gaza.


Children, women among more than 20 reported killed in latest Israeli attacks

Along with the recent bombing of an apartment in the Shabiyah area of ​Gaza City, Israeli forces also killed at least 12 people and injured others during the bombing of an aid storage warehouse in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.

Women and children were among those killed when Israeli aircraft and artillery targeted the warehouse, the Palestinian state news agency Wafa reports.

People were also killed in an overnight air strike on a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza City, Wafa said.

Heavy gunfire from Israeli armoured vehicles stationed in the southern neighbourhoods of Gaza City was also reported.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have shared video footage of a large fire that was reported to have broken out in the Jabalia refugee camp area of northern Gaza following an Israeli bombardment overnight.



Israeli tanks reach western Rafah where ‘congested mass of people’ live: Aid worker

Reuters news agency reports that Israel’s military is continuing its attacks in three eastern suburbs of Rafah while Israeli tanks are advancing on Rafah’s southeast and have reached the city’s densely-populated western district of Yibna.

“The occupation is trying to move farther to the west. They are on the edge of Yibna, which is densely populated. They didn’t invade it yet,” one Rafah resident told the news agency. “We hear explosions, and we see black smoke coming up from the areas where the army has invaded. It was another very difficult night,” he said via a chat app.

The Norwegian Refugee Council’s emergency response leader in Gaza, Suze van Meegen, said many civilians were still stuck in the Rafah warzone. “The city of Rafah is now comprised of three entirely different worlds: the east is an archetypal war zone, the middle is a ghost town, and the west is a congested mass of people living in deplorable conditions,” she said in a statement.

“People have no choice but to put their faith in so-called ‘humanitarian safe zones’ designated by the forces that have killed their family members and destroyed their homes,” she added.