Palestinians do not trust Israeli evacuation orders any more
People do not trust this Israeli narrative about evacuation zones and moving to other safe areas across the Gaza Strip.
There’s no safe place across Gaza. What’s going on right now in Khan Younis is nothing short of enforced displacement, it’s been going on for months.
The Israeli military is talking about sending people to safety or giving evacuation orders so people are protected, but this is not accurate on the ground. In fact, it has been misleading, contradictory and vague for the most part.
We have cases where people move to these evacuation zones or safe areas as the Israeli military ordered them, and within hours of their arrival, they’ve been killed inside the area they were told to move to.
People are now hesitant, they end up in the streets because they don’t want to move inside residential buildings that are going to be bombed.
Israeli military kills Palestinian doctor in air strike: Reports
The Israeli military has carried out an air strike on a home in the city of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, killing a Palestinian doctor, according to local media reports.
Hassan Hamdan, who was the head of the Burns and Plastic Surgery Department at Nasser Hospital, was reported killed along with his family. The final death toll has not been confirmed.
Thermobaric rockets used in complex ambush of Israeli soldiers in Shujayea, monitors report
Palestinian fighters in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood conducted a “complex and multi-stage attack” on Israeli forces on Tuesday, which involved an ambush and the use of “thermobaric rockets”, war monitors report.
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) forces first targeted a unit of Israeli soldiers in a building in Shujayea with a powerful thermobaric rocket but then redirected their attack at an Israeli rapid reaction force that was deployed to the firefight.
Palestinian fighters used “an explosively formed penetrator, rocket-propelled grenades, and additional thermobaric rockets” against the reaction force, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) said in their latest Gaza field report.
The combined ambush and attack by Hamas and PIJ was one of at least 10 attacks on Tuesday against Israeli forces currently operating in Shujayea, and indicates that Hamas has “at least partially reconstituted” its forces since Israeli ground troops were last in the area in April, the US-based defence think tanks report.
Israeli bombing kills two in Maghazi refugee camp
At least two people have been killed in an Israeli bombardment that hit a group of Palestinians in eastern Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza, an Al Jazeera correspondent reports.
They added that the northwest part of Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza was also subjected to Israeli artillery shelling.
An Al Jazeera correspondent now reports that three bodies have arrived at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah following the Israeli bombing of a car in eastern Maghazi.
Israeli bombing kills four, injures 17 in Shujayea
At least four people have been killed and 17 injured in an Israeli bombardment in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood, an Al Jazeera correspondent reports. They added that the attack happened as people at a gathering tried to return to their homes in the neighbourhood.
People run for cover as smoke billows over Shujayea following an Israeli bombardment
The Israeli army says it has destroyed 50 sites belonging to Hamas in the Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood. The eastern neighbourhood has seen intense attacks after the Israeli army last week issued an evacuation order requiring the residents to move southwards.
The offensive has forced at last 85,000 residents to flee, but many have remained behind, Sam Rose, the UNRWA’s director of planning, told Al Jazeera. “The expectation when it [the military operation] started is that it would have been over quite quickly but it’s carrying on – we are now, I believe, in day six,” Rose said.
“As it’s always the case in these operations – there are people who stay behind, or are unable to move because they are elderly or sick or unwilling to move because they had enough and prefer to die where they are rather than facing another round of uncertainty,” he added.
Israeli bombing kills two in Rafah
Two people have been killed in an Israeli bombing of the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood in Rafah, an Al Jazeera correspondent reports.
Many injured in bombing of residential apartment in central Gaza City
Many people have been injured in the Israeli bombing of a residential apartment near the Tabaeen Mosque on al-Sahaba Street in central Gaza City, an Al Jazeera correspondent reports.
Two women killed in Israeli attack on Nuseirat
Palestinian news agency Wafa reports that two women were killed after the Israeli army bombed the central Gaza Strip refugee camp. Local sources told Wafa that the killings occurred after army warplanes attacked a residential apartment in the camp.
37,953 Palestinians killed in Gaza since October 7: Health Ministry
The Strip’s Health Ministry says at least 37,953 Palestinians have been killed and 87,266 injured in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7.
The ministry added that 28 Palestinians have been killed and 125 injured by Israeli forces in the past 24 hours, and that a number of victims are still trapped under rubble or are located on roads where ambulance and civil defence crews cannot reach them.
