Israeli army claims to control 60% of southern Gaza’s Rafah city
The Israeli army claims to have tightened control over about 60 to 70 percent of the city of Rafah in southern Gaza as part of its ground offensive that has been ongoing for 40 days.
It now has operational control over the neighbourhoods of Shaboura, Brazil, Tal as-Sultan, and the Philadelphi Corridor, the military said. It also said it lost 22 soldiers and had more than 300 others injured as part of this battle. The Israeli army also claimed to have killed 550 Palestinian fighters.
In what imaginary world is this not a major ground operation. Biden is so full of shit.
Qassam Brigades targets Israeli forces in southern Gaza
Fierce fighting continues in the southern Rafah area with Hamas’s armed wing saying it launched a series of attacks.
“We struck the headquarters of the enemy command penetrating south of the Tal as-Sultan district in the city of Rafah with heavy-calibre mortar rounds,” it said. “We targeted two Zionist Merkava tanks with two Yassin-105 shells.”
At least 8 killed in Israeli strikes while waiting for aid trucks in Rafah
At least eight Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire as merchants and civil guards waited for commercial trucks along the main eastern road of the Gaza Strip. An unknown number of people were wounded in the attack and taken to European Gaza Hospital.
The strikes come a day after Israel’s military said it would “pause” operations on the main aid route in southern Gaza for 11 hours each day to facilitate the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian relief for thousands of starving people.
Only eight aid trucks enter southern Gaza
Humanitarian organisations no longer need to coordinate with Israeli forces to move their trucks along the main southern Gaza route, says Shimon Freedman, a spokesperson for Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Israeli military body in charge of facilitating aid into the Palestinian territory.
Freedman said the military would protect the route so aid convoys could travel safely. The comments come as reports emerge of a deadly Israel attack on aid facilitators in southern Gaza.
An Associated Press reporter stationed on the route saw about eight trucks travelling down the road on Monday. Before the Rafah operation, the number of aid trucks entering Gaza’s south was in the hundreds. Since the Rafah invasion in early May, the number of cargo vehicles entering southern Gaza has dropped about 70 percent. Israel and humanitarian groups have traded blame over who is responsible for the lack of aid getting to desperate Palestinians.
Is the IDF that incompetent or do they ambush aid workers on purpose... Seems to be the latter as they refuse to learn from their 'mistakes'
New World Central Kitchen in Khan Younis in memory of slain worker
The World Central Kitchen (WCK) announced the launch of a new food distribution facility named “Zomi” in memory of one of its aid workers killed in a series of Israeli air strikes in April.
“Now [Zomi’s] dream will become true,” said one WCK worker, announcing the new kitchen in southern Khan Younis city.
“This will be our fourth large-scale kitchen in Gaza and will be named after Zomi, one of our seven team members killed in the April 1 strike on a WCK humanitarian convoy."
WCK’s Maintenance and Construction Team is energized to begin work on our new Field Kitchen in central Gaza. This will be our fourth large-scale kitchen in Gaza and will be named after Zomi, one of our seven team members killed in the April 1 IDF strike on a WCK humanitarian… pic.twitter.com/ALAJHxz4uP
— World Central Kitchen (@WCKitchen) June 17, 2024
