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Day 237 since Oct 7, 7 months of brutal genocidal war and still only getting worse.

Israeli strike on Bureij refugee camp kills 5: Report

The Israeli military has bombed a house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, killing five people, according to local media.

Women and children were killed in the strike, which struck the al-Sous family home, the Wafa news agency reports. The injured have been transferred to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the city of Deir el-Balah.


Experts says Israel could have used smaller bombs to avoid civilian deaths in Rafah camp attack

Defence experts who have reviewed debris images from an Israeli air strike that ignited a deadly fire in a camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah have questioned why Israel did not use smaller, more precise weapons when so many civilians were nearby, The Associated Press news agency (AP) reports.

Two experts said the bombs used in the strike – which killed as many as 45 people sheltering in a temporary displacement camp – were likely US-made.

The experts told AP that even the smallest jet-launched munition may be too big when civilians are near because of how they explode and can send fragments far, and the bombs used were likely US-made 250-pound (113-kilogramme) GBU-39 small-diameter bombs.

“You essentially have two bombs they use that the fragments can travel 600 meters in a densely packed area. So that just doesn’t check out if they’re trying to limit casualties,” said Trevor Ball, a former US Army explosive ordnance demolition technician.

Ball and Mark Cancian, a retired Marine Corps Reserves colonel and senior adviser to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the debris field from the attack was indicative of the bombs possibly being set to detonate before impact, which would ensure their intended targets were killed but also risk unintended deaths.

They also could have used no bombs and not target a 'safe area' tent encampment full of civilians.

Another Israeli strike kills 4 in Bureij camp, death toll from earlier attack rises to 7

The Israeli military has killed at least four people in another strike on the Bureij refugee camp on the al-Hur family home, local media is reporting.

Earlier we reported that the Israeli military had bombed the al-Sous family home in the Bureij refugee camp, killing five people, including women and children. The death toll for that strike has now risen to seven, according to local media.

Jabalia reduced to rubble – Israel destroys most of Gaza’s largest camp

Three weeks of intensified Israeli attacks have all but destroyed what was the largest refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

Palestinians who used to live in Jabalia say they are shocked by the level of destruction, saying that Israeli forces have left the area of northern Gaza completely uninhabitable.