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SvennoJ on 30 May 2024
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Israeli military says soldier killed, 3 injured fighting in Gaza north and south

The Israeli military said a 21-year-old sergeant in the parachute brigade of the 101st Battalion was killed fighting in northern Gaza on Thursday while another member of the unit was seriously injured.

In southern Gaza, two soldiers with Israel’s Combat Engineering Corps were seriously wounded in fighting and evacuated to Israel for medical treatment.

As of Wednesday, 290 Israeli soldiers had been killed and 1,831 injured in fighting in Gaza or along the territory’s border with Israel since the ground invasion of the Palestinian enclave was launched in the aftermath of the October 7 attack.

Four Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Nuseirat

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israeli shelling of a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza has killed four people and wounded 14 others. Al Jazeera correspondents also reported that an Israeli strike on a residential building in Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza caused casualties. The toll was not immediately clear.


Control of Philadelphi Corridor will not stop Hamas efforts to ‘reconstitute’ forces: Monitors

Israeli military officials believe that controlling the Philadelphi Corridor between Gaza and the Egyptian border will prevent Palestinian armed groups from importing weapons into the territory.

However, US-based defence think tanks – the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) – said Hamas “will continue its efforts to reconstitute throughout the Gaza Strip, despite these efforts”.

In their latest joint battlefield assessment, the ISW/CTP note that Israeli forces controlled 70 percent of the corridor by May 22 – two weeks after first launching their ongoing ground invasion of Rafah.

Israel’s military claimed that Hamas had used the corridor area to launch rocket attacks in recent weeks and had likely assumed that Israeli forces would avoid carrying out strikes in the area for fear of accidentally hitting nearby Egyptian territory, the ISW/CTP report.

In the ongoing fighting for Rafah city, Hamas fighters have used “house-borne improvised explosive devices” which are detonated when Israeli troops enter and have been used to lethal effect, killing three soldiers and injuring five others so far, the monitors add.


Israeli military renews offensive in Gaza City’s Zeitoun

We have confirmed reports of the Israeli military pushing more ground forces into the eastern part of Gaza City, mainly the Zeitoun neighbourhood, in what seems to be a renewed invasion of the area. In doing so, it’s destroying the vast majority of the remaining public facilities and infrastructure.

The Zeitoun neighbourhood has been stormed and invaded many times before – and every time the level of destruction becomes much more visible. It’s causing further civilian casualties and creating more tragedies on the ground for people already displaced and traumatised.