Al-Quds Brigades claim attack on 5 Israeli settlements near Gaza
Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, al-Quds Brigades, has claimed an air attack on Israeli settlements near the Gaza Strip, including Kissufim, Third Eye, Nirim, Sufa and Holit.
It did not elaborate on the results of the air raid.
The announcement came after Israeli media reported that about 20 rockets were fired from the south of the besieged Palestinian enclave. The reports said there were no casualties.
The Israeli army said on X that some of the rockets were intercepted. It did not say whether others caused any damage.
“[Israeli] forces are now attacking the sources of the fire with artillery,” the army added.
Ground invasion of Gaza City’s Shujayea area continues for fifth day
In central Gaza, there was intense Israeli artillery shelling in the eastern parts of Deir el-Balah.
The ground invasion continues in Gaza City’s Shujayea for the fifth consecutive day. It’s a densely populated area where some people were able to evacuate from but others stayed and were unable to leave; they were trapped in their houses.
People are injured and medical teams cannot reach them. There has been no water, no food for five days and the intensity of air strikes continues. Palestinians surrounding Shujayea are reporting that artillery shelling and air strikes did not stop. Israeli forces are blowing up a complete residential area.
It’s sad to see this happen again in Shujayea. In the 2014 war, the same area witnessed demolition and violence. This is the continuous cycle of systematic actions against Palestinians by Israeli forces.
Another journalist killed in Gaza, says Government Media Office
A statement by the office on Telegram says the number of media workers killed since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza has increased to 153.
The office said Muhammad Mahmoud Abu Sharia, a journalist at Shams News Agency, is the latest to be killed in Israel’s attacks. The Committee to Protect Journalists has noted “an apparent pattern of targeting of journalists and their families by the Israeli military”.
Qassam Brigades: Israeli troops killed in booby-trapped house in Rafah
The armed wing of Hamas says fighters lured Israeli troops into an explosives-rigged house used recently as a sniper’s nest in the east of Rafah city. “Immediately after the soldiers entered the house a bomb was detonated, leaving the force members dead and wounded,” it said on Telegram.
Separately, the armed group said fighters targeted two Merkava-4 tanks with two Shawaz explosive devices in the Shujayea neighbourhood, east of northern Gaza City.
Qassam Brigades says it killed Israeli troops in rocket attack in Shujayea
The armed group of Hamas says its fighters attacked soldiers holed up inside a house in the neighbourhood in the east of Gaza City.
A statement on Telegram said the building was targeted with a “TBG thermobaric rocket”, killing and wounding the soldiers. Fighters also “managed to snipe” an Israeli soldier inside a separate home in the neighbourhood.
The Israeli military, meanwhile, reported “short-range encounters” with Palestinian fighters in Shujayea, claiming the air force “eliminated dozens of terrorists” and weapons sites in strikes.
Israeli soldier killed in Rafah as fierce fighting continues
The soldier was killed during combat operations in the city in southern Gaza, the Israeli military says. He was identified as Sergeant Ori Itzchak Hadad, 21, from Beersheba in southern Israel, the army said on X, adding that nine other soldiers were wounded in an attack.
It happened in a tunnel when an explosive device was detonated.
3 ‘massacres’ by Israeli forces kill 23, injure 91 in past 24 hours
Gaza’s health ministry says nearly two dozen people were killed and 100 wounded in Israeli strikes over the past day.
“Israeli attacks killed 23 people and injured 91 others in three massacres against [Palestinian] families in the last 24 hours,” the ministry said. “Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.
