Hamas says its fighters shell Israeli army position in northern Gaza
The Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, says on its official Telegram channel that it has attacked an Israeli army “command and control position” in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood with mortar fire.
It said the attack caused casualties and its fighters observed Israeli army medical evacuation teams landing to extract the “dead and wounded”.
2 Israeli soldiers wounded in Gaza fighting
The Israeli army says two of its soldiers from the 401st Brigades have been “seriously injured” in southern Gaza. “The fighters were evacuated to receive medical treatment at a hospital,” it added in a post on X.
More than 300 Israeli soldiers have been killed and thousands wounded since the ground invasion of Gaza began in late October.
‘Powerful’ roadside bomb blows up Israeli Merkava tank in Rafah: Hamas
The Qassam Brigades, Hamas’s military wing, says it blew up an Israeli tank in southern Gaza with “a large explosive” roadside bomb, “killing its crew”. Fighters “were able to prepare a precise ambush” with the explosive device planted under the ground near the Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood, west of Rafah city.
“Operations to evacuate the remains of dead soldiers and tank wreckage continued for several hours,” it said in a statement.
In northern Gaza, Qassam Bridages said earlier it shelled “an enemy command-and-control site east of the [Zeitoun] neighbourhood with heavy mortars, achieving direct hits on the troops”.
Fighters detected “two Black Hawk and Yas’ur helicopters landing to evacuate the dead and wounded”, it added. The Israeli military didn’t immediately comment on either attack.
Palestinian journalist killed in Israeli attack on Gaza
Broadcaster Al-Aqsa TV announced via Telegram that one of its journalists, Salim al-Sharafa, was targeted in an Israeli bombing in the Gaza Strip a short while ago.
According to Gaza’s Government Media Office, al-Sharafa’s death raises the tally of media workers killed in Gaza since October 7 to at least 152.
Israeli troops kill teen in occupied West Bank: Health Ministry
The Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli forces have shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank. Naeem Abdullah Samha, 15, was killed “by occupation [Israeli] bullets” in the city of Qalqilya, the ministry in Ramallah said in a statement.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to an AFP request for comment.
The Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing local sources, reported that Samha was shot in the chest. He was rushed to hospital but was pronounced dead there, the agency said. It reported no reason for the shooting.
