Al-Quds Brigades claims attacks on Israeli positions in Gaza City, Rafah
The armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group says it has bombarded Israeli army positions with mortar shells in the Netzarim Corridor and Shujayea neighbourhood in Gaza City, as well as the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza.
The Netzarim Corridor, named after the Jewish settlement in Gaza that was dismantled in 2005, was set up by the Israeli army to separate northern Gaza from its southern part earlier in the war.
Qassam Brigades says it killed 10 Israeli soldiers in Shujayea
The armed wing of Hamas says the soldiers were killed in an operation on al-Nazaz Street in the eastern Gaza City neighbourhood.
In a statement on Telegram, the group said that fighters targeted a building occupied by Israeli troops with a TBG (thermobaric) rocket, before entering the building and killing the remaining soldiers from a distance.
“During their withdrawal, they [the fighters] detonated an explosive device inside the building, and then helicopters intervened to evacuate the dead and wounded soldiers,” the statement added.
The group also said its fighters struck an Israeli Merkava 4 tank with a Yassin-105 rocket.
Streets of Khan Younis flooded with sewage
Video posted on Instagram by Palestinian journalist Hassan Islah shows what he termed a “lake” of stagnant sewage on a street in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, among rows of destroyed buildings.
Residents complain about the spread of mosquitoes, unpleasant odours in the street and their struggle to move from one place to another due to the sewage surrounding their homes, he said.
According to reports from the UN published last month, 67 percent of water and sanitation facilities and infrastructure in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged in Israel’s war on Gaza, increasing the spread of disease.
