Overnight attacks hit Gaza City, Rafah: Report
Israeli attacks overnight have killed and injured more Palestinians from the north to the south of Gaza, reports the Wafa news agency.
According to its reports, they include:
- Bombardment of a family home in Gaza City’s Shujaya neighbourhood, which killed two people and injured others, and artillery attacks on homes in Gaza City’s Zeitoun and Tal al-Hawa neighbourhoods.
- Artillery attacks in several areas north of Rafah, including Khirbet al-Adas and al-Hashaashin, causing an undetermined number of casualties.
- Air raids on Deir el-Balah city.
‘Trail of destruction’ after Israeli operation in Nuseirat
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud has spoken to residents of the Nuseirat refugee camp who witnessed the Israeli military’s operation there on Saturday that killed and injured hundreds of Palestinians.
Anaas Alayan, one resident of the camp, said Israeli special forces committed mass “executions” on the street. “I went down to the street and found bodies everywhere,” he told Al Jazeera.
The military, which rescued four Israeli captives during the operation, killed at least 274 Palestinians, including at least 64 children during the day-time assault, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
The camp is now left with a “trail of destruction”, according to Mahmoud.
Bodies keep arriving into Deir el-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Hospital
Israeli forces have withdrawn from the eastern part of Deir el-Balah, but it is a very sad morning. Civil defence teams were able to bring the bodies of five people who were killed in the area. We’re expecting them to bring more bodies from eastern Deir el-Balah.
There have been a couple of air strikes in the area after the Israeli forces withdrew, as well as intensive artillery shelling throughout the night.
Al-Aqsa Hospital in the city has been appealing to the international community to intervene to provide it with medical supplies and fuel, as it is currently working with only one generator. Due to the huge amount of injuries it has received in the past few days, the hospital is overwhelmed.
Israeli military claims to kill elite Hamas commandos in central Gaza
In its latest war update, the Israeli military says it has carried out more air strikes and “targeted raids” in central Gaza, killing Hamas fighters and destroying military infrastructure.
Several of the Hamas fighters killed via air strikes were members of the group’s elite Nukhba Forces, according to the Israeli military.
Israel’s latest attacks throughout Gaza have also killed civilians, including women and children sheltering in their homes in Gaza City, according to the Wafa news agency.
Qassam Brigades claims attack on Israeli forces in Rafah city
The armed wing of Hamas has claimed to have “killed and wounded” an unnamed number of Israeli forces in the Shaboura camp of Gaza’s Rafah city. The statement made on Telegram said the Qassam Brigades detonated a booby-trapped house with the Israeli forces inside.
“Immediately upon the arrival of the rescue force, our [fighters] destroyed the vicinity of the house that was blown up with mortar shells,” it added.
More on Qassam Brigades’ attack on Israeli forces in Rafah
There is a very serious security development that took place a couple of hours ago in Rafah, where the Qassam Brigades has announced they managed to ambush an Israeli force in a residential building.
They managed to blow up the entire building [with the soldiers inside]. A number of soldiers have been killed and others injured. And later, Israeli helicopters started to evacuate the injured to Israeli hospitals in order to get treatment.
Within the operation, Israeli forces managed to throw smoke grenades in order to make a cover for evacuating soldiers killed and injured.
