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Palestinians trapped in Shujayea as ground invasion intensifies

Israeli air raids and artillery shelling continue in northern Gaza.

Starting with Beit Lahiya, the Indonesian Field Hospital received a critically wounded child and her father after their house was targeted in the area. Israeli forces also targeted another home in Jabalia as well as in Gaza City’s al-Darraj neighbourhood.

In Shujayea, Israeli forces’ ground incursion continues into its fourth day. It’s still intensifying. Palestinians there say they are trapped, surrounded by artillery shelling and air attacks. They do not have food. Some people are wounded and ambulances have not been able to reach that area.

It’s also very difficult for journalists to go there.

_{Smoke billows from an area targeted by Israeli bombardment in the Gaza City district of Shujayea on Friday}

Israeli attack on Shujayea: ‘They never stopped shooting’

Palestinians recounted being trapped during Israel’s ground invasion of northern Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood as the siege enters its fourth day.

“We were in the house at the time of the incursion into Shujayea and we couldn’t leave because of the amount of shelling and shooting from Israeli tanks,” said Areej al-Jamal.

“The bulldozers bulldozed under our house and then Israeli soldiers blew up the door. We were yelling at them that ‘we are civilians’. They didn’t respond, they never stopped shooting."

Al-Jamal said her mother was wounded in the stomach and “her body parts were in my hands”. Her mother was taken away by Israeli troops and she said she doesn’t know if she’s dead or alive.

Six killed in Rafah

Israeli forces bombed a family home in western Rafah, killing six people including children, reports the Wafa news agency. Others were wounded from the attack, it said.

Israeli artillery attacks also injured more people further south in Rafah, while air raids targeted several towns east of Khan Younis, including Abasan and Khuza’a.

_{Palestinian children search for food in a tent camp in the Gaza city of Khan Younis}

Number of killed in Gaza rises to 37,877 with 86,969 wounded

At least 37,877 Palestinians have now been killed in Gaza during Israel’s war on the coastal enclave, the Health Ministry says. The toll includes at least 43 deaths over the past 24 hours, a ministry statement said. Another 86,969 have been wounded since the conflict began on October 7, it added.

The death toll is likely far higher with thousands of bodies buried in the debris of bombed buildings.

_{Palestinians mourn the death of members from Zourob family who were killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Saturday}