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SvennoJ on 15 June 2024
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Palestinians repurpose Israeli ammunition boxes into firewood

Empty, discarded Israeli ammunition boxes are being recycled by enterprising Palestinians for sale as firewood in Gaza.

Amid a shortage of cooking gas in the Palestinian territory, firewood is prized by displaced families as fuel for preparing cooked meals.

“These are the remnants from the occupation when the Israeli army withdrew from our land, from Khan Younis. We collected them to sell to people as firewood,” Abdullah al-Hindi told Al Jazeera.

Palestinians keep Eid spirit alive amid the war


Members of the Sharrab family prepare Eid biscuits on the rubble of their house destroyed by Israeli attacks

The Sharrab family family is distributing the biscuits to other Palestinians to keep the spirit of Eid alive

Palestinian fighters use ‘combat compounds’ in battle for Rafah: Monitors

Palestinian fighters continued to attack Israeli forces deployed along the Netzarim Corridor on Friday, and reported carrying out two boobytrap attacks that brought down a house on top of Israeli forces in one case and collapsed a tunnel entrance in another, war monitors report.

Hamas said it detonated the “house-borne” improvised explosive device in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City, inflicting casualties on Israeli soldiers who were inside, and also detonated a rigged tunnel entrance to the east of the same area.

Hamas said it observed Israeli helicopters evacuating soldiers from the Zeitoun area after the attacks, US-based defence think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and Critical Threats Project (CTP) report.

Israeli forces report that Palestinian fighters in Rafah are using inter-linked buildings as “battle compounds” for quick movement through neighbourhoods, similar to what was used in the recent weeks-long fighting in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, the ISW/CTP report.

There were also several “indirect fire attacks” launched towards Israel from the Gaza Strip on Friday, the monitors said