Israeli jets, attack helicopters hit more than 50 sites across Gaza in one day: Monitors
Israeli fighter jets and an attack helicopter fired on two UNRWA-operated schools in Gaza City causing multiple casualties at the Musa bin Nusair School, war monitors report, in what Israel said was an operation against locations used to “plan and direct” attacks against its forces.
The Israeli air force attacked more than 50 targets across Gaza in total on Thursday, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) say in their latest report on fighting in Gaza.
According to the US-based think tanks, Israeli troops operating in the Shujayea neighbourhood of Gaza City reported close-range battles with Palestinian fighters on Thursday, while Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad units continued to target Israeli forces with powerful “explosively formed penetrators”.
The sustained use of such “sophisticated weapons and tactics” among Palestinian fighters in Shujayea remains consistent with previous analysis by the ISW and CTP that Hamas has “at least partially” rebuilt its fighting force in the area since Israeli forces pulled out in April.
A barrage of rockets was also launched from Gaza towards areas in southern Israel on Thursday, the ISW/CTP reports.
2/ The IDF Southern Command directed an airstrike targeting Palestinian fighters in two UNRWA schools in Gaza City on July 4.
The IDF 98th Division continued operations to degrade a partially reconstituted Hamas battalion in Shujaiya, Gaza City, on July 4.
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— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) July 4, 2024
Two children trapped under rubble after deadly strike in Gaza City’s Daraj area: Civil defence
Gaza’s civil defence has recovered the bodies of two women and rescued an unidentified number of injured people following an attack on a house in Gaza City’s Daraj neighbourhood.
The rescue service said on Telegram that two children were still trapped under the rubble of the Bardawil family home. Two bodies and seven injured people were taken from the Bardawils’ house to the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, medical sources said.
Witnesses confirmed a number of dead were still under the rubble of the destroyed building. “We were inside our house, and we heard an explosion … All the young men went to help the injured,” a witness said.
Fuel shortage forced closure of six out of seven bakeries in Deir el-Balah
Only one of seven bakeries operated in Deir el-Balah yesterday due to the lack of fuel. We are talking about the bakeries that are serving 1.8 million Palestinians who are squeezed in the middle of the Gaza Strip after being displaced multiple times.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has been providing those bakeries with fuel, flour, salt and yeast. But there is a shortage of fuel now and the bakeries face the risk of shutting down. So, the humanitarian situation remains dire despite the ongoing ceasefire negotiations.
At least five people, including three children, were killed overnight after a bombing of a residential house in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. There have also been a couple of air strikes in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis and artillery shelling in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
No news coming out of Shujayea after days of Israeli ground invasion
There is no news coming out of Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood where an Israeli ground invasion is continuing. The Israeli forces are not letting ambulances, firefighters or journalists reach that area.
Heavy shelling and air strikes are being heard. The Palestinians who were trapped there and were requesting evacuation have gone quiet. People are worried for their loved ones.
Israel claims it has killed 100 Palestinian fighters in Gaza City’s Shujayea area
The Israeli army claims its ground forces from Division 98 have killed “about 100 terrorists, more than 100 terrorist infrastructures and located weapons” since the beginning of its ground invasion of Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood.
Footage documents bodies ‘piled up’ at Nasser Hospital in Gaza’s Khan Younis
Video footage verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad news agency has documented a large number of Palestinian bodies received by Nasser Hospital’s morgue in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis.
The bodies were recovered from Khan Younis and Rafah after intense Israeli air attacks, said Palestinian journalist Hassan Eslayeh, who posted the video on his Telegram channel.
Dozens of Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza, including in Jabalia and Gaza City to the north, as well as Khan Younis to the south, in the past 48 hours.
Medical sources have reported that Nasser Hospital, the last functioning medical facility in Khan Younis, and the Kuwaiti Field Hospital near Rafah are expected to shut down as their generators are running out of fuel.
