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SvennoJ on 03 June 2024
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Hamas rebuilds forces amid Israel’s ‘raid-based model’ of war in Gaza: Monitors

Two Palestinian armed groups fired rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, including an attack by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine that targeted Israeli forces stationed at the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing, war monitors report.

US defence think tanks, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP), also report that Israel had intended to deploy two divisions to the ground attack on Rafah city in the south, but was deterred by US concerns over weapons sanctions and is now, they say, “moving ‘more deliberately’ in Rafah”.

However, the ISW and the CTP reiterate in their latest battlefield report that Hamas is continuing to reconstitute its forces in areas of the Palestinian territory following the withdrawal of Israeli troops, in what the war monitors characterise as a crucial weakness of Israel’s “raid-based model” of conducting war in Gaza.


Gaza hospitals under strain – Israeli blockade puts patients at risk

Al-Aqsa Hospital has been treating wounded Palestinians since Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip began, and it has been constantly overwhelmed. Patients have no option but to sleep on the floor in the overcrowded hospital corridors, and some need treatment that doctors are unable to provide.

One of those is young Mohamed Abu Shgheba, whose right leg was badly injured when he and his father were caught in an Israeli bombardment of their home. Mohamed has been made comfortable for now. But he will need treatment outside Gaza if he is ever to walk again.

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Mothers, children mourn another night of deadly attacks on central, southern Gaza

The situation is getting completely dire across the Gaza Strip. As we woke up today, there was the sound of artillery bombardments in multiple areas in the central parts of the Gaza Strip, which has been the main focus for the Israeli military attacks in the past 24 hours. At least 10 Palestinians have been reported killed in the central areas.
 
Since the early hours of this morning, there have been disturbing images of mothers and children crying over the loss of their loved ones. Families were directly targeted without receiving any kind of prior warning. They are asking for an immediate ceasefire that would bring an end to the fighting.

The situation continues to be difficult also in the far south of the Gaza Strip. Including Khan Younis city where at least 10 Palestinians have been killed in an air strike that destroyed a residential building and at least three Palestinian children were among the victims.

We have been hearing in the past couple of minutes more artillery bombardments in the northern part of the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps.

Another of the victims today we have heard about is a Palestinian fisherman who has been killed on the Deir el-Balah coast. The Israeli naval force opened fire on him as he was trying to make a living in the ongoing financial crisis that Palestinians have been going through.

Israel targets residential apartment, killing 4 in Gaza City

An Israeli attack on a residential apartment in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood has killed at least four people and injured others, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.

The attack follows a series of deadly overnight strikes in central and southern Gaza that killed a total of 22 people, including women and children.


Rescuers recover body of woman killed in central Gaza

Medics with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) have recovered the body of a woman who was killed in Abu al-Ajeen area, east of Deir el-Balah.

Footage posted by the group shows medics carrying the woman’s body, covered in a blanket, into a hospital to be prepared for burial. She is among dozens of casualties reported in Israel’s latest wave of attacks on the Strip.