Jabalia resident: Israeli forces ‘are testing missiles on us’
As we’ve been reporting, the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip has been largely reduced to rubble after a 20-day Israeli military incursion had been fiercely resisted by Palestinian armed groups.
Residents of Jabalia, now returning to the area after Israeli forces partially withdrew on Thursday, say the level of destruction is overwhelming, with homes and public buildings decimated and decomposing bodies left in the rubble-strewn streets to be eaten by stray animals.
“Look at the scale of destruction in Jabalia. The Israelis have destroyed us. They are actually testing their missiles on us,” one resident returning to the city told Al Jazeera.
Israeli military continues pullbacks in northern Gaza
After withdrawing from Jthe abalia refugee camp yesterday, Israeli forces have begun to move out of more areas of northern Gaza, including Tall az-Zaatar, Beit Lahiya and Beit Hanoon, according to reporters on the ground.
Palestinian rescuers are now beginning to recover the bodies of people killed in these areas where Israeli ground troops had been operating for weeks, according to the reports.
Israel ‘demolishing’ homes, public facilities in eastern Rafah neighbourhoods
The Israeli military has continued to bomb Rafah and push deeper into the western part of the city.
Eyewitnesses described seeing tanks and armoured vehicles, with artillery shells reaching as far as the tent camp for displaced people in the western part of the city, which is an evacuation zone.
As it stated, the Israeli military has full control over the Philadelphi Corridor and is now systematically demolishing homes in the eastern part of Rafah city.
The entire eastern part of Rafah, including the as-Salam and al-Jenina neighbourhoods, has been cleared of residential buildings and public facilities.
Three injured from Gaza City air attack
An Israeli air strike has hit a residential apartment in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood, injuring at least three people, the Wafa news agency reports.
The injured have been taken to al-Ahli Arab Hospital, said Wafa, without providing information on their condition.
Two killed near Gaza City university
An Israeli attack near a university in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood has killed at least two people from the same family, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
