Nuseirat refugee camp comes under attack: Report
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting intense Israeli artillery shelling, smoke rounds and drone attacks on residential houses northwest of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Movement of Israeli military vehicles has also been reported north of the camp in what appears to be a coordinated mobilisation to coincide with the bombardment.
Israeli strike kills one Palestinian in Rafah
An Israeli strike has killed one person in the Oreiba area, north of Rafah. The attack comes after our earlier reports of Israeli bombardment of tents in Mawasi, northwest of Rafah, which killed at least seven people and injured dozens.
Israeli drones, vehicles and gunboats have also fired at areas in Nuseirat camp, causing at least one home to catch fire.
Israelis conduct ‘dozens of’ air raids; Palestinians battle in central, south Gaza: Monitors
Israeli forces stationed along the Netzarim Corridor – the military-built road that dissects northern and southern Gaza – continued to come under mortar and rocket fire from Palestinian fighters on Tuesday, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) report.
Israel’s air force also reported carrying out “dozens of” air raids across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the US-based think tanks say in their latest battlefield report.
Three Palestinian armed groups reported carrying out attacks on Israeli forces in Rafah city’s Tal as-Sultan and Shaboura neighbourhoods where Israeli troops are continuing to “destroy military infrastructure above and below ground”, the ISW-CTP joint report states.
The report also references an Israeli military radio correspondent who said military officials estimate that 15,000 Hamas fighters remain in Gaza, with some 2,000 still based in the north of the territory.
Four “indirect fire attacks on southern Israel” involving mortars and rockets were also launched towards Israel from Gaza on Monday, the report adds.
An Israeli tank patrol in the Zeitoun area of northern Gaza’s Gaza City on June 3
Safe zone, refugee camp targeted by Israeli forces
A reminder that several Palestinians are feared dead in a new wave of attacks by Israeli forces on a refugee camp and a so-called safe zone in Gaza. Five air raids have been reported in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Israeli forces have stepped up their attacks in Mawasi area, a narrow coastal strip that was designated as a ‘humanitarian zone’ near the southern city of Rafah. Seven people have reportedly been killed there.
Children were sleeping when Mawasi tents attacked, says witness
A displaced woman in Mawasi has given details about Israel’s attack on a tent camp there that killed at least seven people. Fatima al-Qiq, an elderly woman staying in the camp, said an Israeli shell hit the tents in the designated safe zone while children were asleep, setting part of it ablaze.
“We were hit by Israeli shelling in a supposedly safe area … the children were sleeping here”, al-Qiq said, adding that if rescuers had not intervened, the place would have been entirely burned down.
Gaza death toll rises
Israeli military attacks in Gaza have killed 24 people and injured 71 in the last 24 hours, reports the enclave’s Health Ministry. Numerous victims are still trapped in areas rescuers are unable to reach, it said.
The latest casualties bring the total number of people killed in Gaza since October 7 to 37,396, with 85,523 wounded.
