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Yet the war continues

Israel attacks several areas surrounding Gaza City

Israeli forces have launched artillery attacks on several areas in the southwest of Gaza City, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.

Israeli naval vessels bombarded the Tal al-Hawa and Sheikh Ajlin neighbourhoods, while Israeli military vehicles also opened heavy gunfire in the areas, Wafa said. Israeli warplanes also conducted low-altitude flights over Gaza City, stirring fear among Palestinians in the area, the agency reported.

Israeli forces raze homes in Rafah

Al Jazeera’s correspondent in the Gaza Strip reports that soldiers are currently burning a number of homes in the central district of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. They also report that other homes are being targeted with tank shells.

Fierce clashes have been occurring all day in the city, where earlier eight Israeli soldiers were killed when Hamas fighters ambushed them.

Palestinians killed and wounded in strike on Gaza City

The rescue group says in a statement on its Telegram channel that it recovered the bodies of four Palestinians, as well as several wounded, after Israeli aircraft targeted a family home in the al-Shaaf area of eastern Gaza City, in the north of the Strip.

PIJ fighters announce attack on Israeli forces in Rafah

The Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, said in a statement that its fighters targeted an Israeli Markava tank with a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) in the Saudi neighbourhood of the southern Gaza Strip city.