Israeli military announces death of another soldier in Gaza
The Israeli military has announced that a soldier was killed on Wednesday during combat in northern Gaza.
The 21-year-old platoon commander in the 435th Infantry Battalion was killed in fighting while a captain and a combat officer were seriously injured in the same incident and have been evacuated to hospital.
The death brings the total number of soldiers killed during Israel’s ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza to 324, according to an Israeli media tally.
Palestinian fighters continue to battle Israeli forces in Shujayea and Rafah: Monitors
Palestinian fighters carried out four attacks on Israeli forces in the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City on Wednesday where local people report catastrophic destruction amid an incursion by Israeli ground forces which began last weekend.
Fighters with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades – one of the smaller armed groups fighting Israeli forces in Gaza – also carried out attacks on troops operating along the Netzarim Corridor, war monitors report.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP), two US-based think tanks, also report that Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the fighters with the National Resistance Brigades launched antitank rockets against Israel forces in the continuing battle for Rafah city in the south of Gaza.
Four rocket attacks from Gaza also targeted areas of southern Israel on Wednesday, the ISW and CTP report.
8/ Palestinian fighters conducted four indirect fire attacks into Israel on July 3. Palestinian fighters fired rockets, which landed around Kfar Maimon, southern Israel. PIJ separately fired rockets into southern Israel. The Mujahideen Brigades fired rockets targeting the IDF… pic.twitter.com/rkyPC7g8vL
— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) July 4, 2024
Israeli forces kill one, injure three in eastern Gaza City
One person has been killed and three people have arrived at the al-Ahli Hospital injured after Israeli forces targeted two Palestinians on Shaaf Street, in eastern Gaza City, Palestinian media has reported.
For several hours, Israeli artillery has continued its intense bombardment of the Shujayea neighbourhood, in eastern Gaza City, and its surrounding areas.
Red Crescent retrieve bodies of two children killed in Gaza City
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says its ambulance crews retrieved the bodies of two children killed in an Israeli attack on Yaffa Street in Gaza City last night, as well as eight injured people.
The PRCS shared a video on social media showing some of the injured being taken to hospital.
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Israeli helicopters shooting live ammunition at Palestinians in Nuseirat
There have been a couple of targets on different houses in Gaza City areas like Shaaf and Daraj. The ground invasion in Shujayea also continues, where the Israeli forces continue to be stationed there with their tanks and soldiers.
Palestinians are trapped. No ambulances have been able to reach the area for more than five days now. There are families trapped without food, water and medical treatment.
In the middle area, helicopters were shooting at Palestinians in the northwestern part of the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Israeli strike targets school in Gaza City’s Daraj neighbourhood
An Israeli attack has targeted a school sheltering displaced people in eastern Gaza City, killing and injuring a number of people, an Al Jazeera correspondent reports.
Earlier we reported that Israeli forces were targeting residential homes in Gaza City in Shaaf and Daraj neighbourhoods.
Health Ministry: 38,011 killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7
The Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip has given its daily update on the death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza, saying that 38,011 people have been killed and 87,445 injured since hostilities began last October.
It added that 58 people have been killed in the last 24 hours, and 179 injured.
Israeli attacks on Gaza City continue, killing four
Paletine’s Wafa news agency reports that Israeli shelling has hit a market in the centre of Gaza City, killing four people and wounding several others. Israeli forces have targeted Gaza City, in the northern Strip, multiple times today.
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Earlier, we reported on the targeting of a school sheltering displaced people in eastern Gaza City, which killed and injured a number of people, as well as attacks on residential homes in the Daraj and Shaaf neighbourhoods.
