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Israeli attack helicopters shoot at Bureij refugee camp

Israeli helicopters have opened fired on the eastern part of Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, an Al Jazeera correspondent reports. The camp is located in the middle of the Gaza Strip, next to the Maghazi and Nuseirat refugee camps, south of Gaza City.


Israeli military confirms attack on ‘humanitarian area’ in Deir el-Balah

The Israeli military has confirmed that its aircraft attacked a “humanitarian area … and near civilian population shelters” because a “Hamas launcher was placed inside” the location in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.

“Before the attack, many efforts were made to reduce the chance of harming civilians,” the military said in a post on social media, without confirming whether the attacked had, in fact, harmed innocent people.

The military also said Israeli paratroopers took part in battles in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood against Palestinian fighters and destroyed “terrorist infrastructure” above and below ground. Fighter jets were called in to assist ground forces in the operation, including an attack on three Hamas fighters armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers, the military said in a series of posts on social media.

In southern Rafah city, ground troops and the air force attacked a “terrorist cell”, the military said.


At least 10 Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Gaza’s Nuseirat

At least 10 Palestinians have been killed and several others injured in an Israeli attack on a house in central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, according to medical sources cited by Turkey’s Anadolu news agency.

The sources said that among the dead were nine members of the Jahjouh family, including seven brothers, a woman and a child.


UNRWA worker among two killed in Israeli attack on warehouses near Maghazi

Two people, including one UNRWA employee, have been killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted the UNRWA warehouses north of the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, according to Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad.

Video footage verified by Sanad showed the arrival of their bodies, as well as those injured, to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah.

The UNRWA employee was wearing his jacket clearly identifying him as UN staff while working in the humanitarian agency’s warehouses.


Israeli bombing in Nuseirat kills two more journalists

Journalist Amjad Jahjouh, his journalist wife Wafa Abu Dabaan, and their child have been killed in an Israeli bombing in Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, according to Al Jazeera’s team on the ground. With the killing of Jahjouh and his wife, the number of Palestinian journalists who have been killed since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza on October 7 has risen to 158.

On Friday, Palestinian journalists Saadi Madoukh and Ahmed Sukkar were killed, following an Israeli raid that targeted a home for the Madoukh family in the Daraj neighbourhood in Gaza City.


Israel targets Palestinian law enforcement around Gaza’s Rafah

  • Six policemen were killed in an Israeli bombardment that hit their car in the Saudi neighbourhood of western Rafah, according to the Palestinian Information Center.
  • One person was killed as a result of an Israeli bombing of a police car in Gaza’s al-Shakoush area, northwest of Rafah.
  • Law enforcement personnel were also targeted by Israeli forces in Tal as-Sultan, in western Rafah city. The forces were protecting residential homes after residents were evicted.


Israeli army releases 15 detainees, then drops bombs on them: Survivors

Palestinian detainees in Gaza have testified that shortly after their release from Israeli detention centre, Israeli forces targeted the group by dropping bombs on them, leading to numerous deaths.

Farid Sobh said in a video testimony verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad that he was in detention with about 15 Palestinians.

“After four days in detention, we were released. We were handcuffed and blindfolded. The Israeli soldiers kept torturing us. They even urinated on us. I was beaten, kicked and battered all over my body,” he said.

“After that, we were released and as we started walking off on the asphalt, they threw grenades and fired a drone missile on us. Some [seven] of my men were killed. I ran for my life and miraculously survived. I came to this hospital [Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis] to check the injuries I suffered.”

Mahmoud Abu Taha, another survivor of the same deadly incident, confirmed Sobh’s account.