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SvennoJ on 08 July 2024
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Two missiles hit al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City: Report

Richard Sewell, the dean of St George’s College in Jerusalem, says he received information that al-Ahli Arab Hospital was hit by two missiles overnight. “Today the complete evacuation of the hospital has been ordered,” Sewell said on X. “Full information yet to be received. Deeply distressing,” he added.


At least 2 killed in Israeli shelling of Gaza City’s Sabra area: Report

Israeli shelling has killed at least two people and injured many others in the Sabra neighbourhood in the south of Gaza City, according to Palestinian media.


Israel kills at least 40 people in 24 hours across Gaza: Ministry

At least 75 people have also been injured in Israel’s attacks across Gaza, raising the total number of injuries since October 7 to 87,903, according to Gaza’s Ministry of Health. The new figures raised the overall death toll to 38,193, including more than 15,983 children and 10,637 women, the ministry said.


At least 4 killed west of Rafah: Report

Israeli forces have attacked a gathering of people near the Qadisiyah junction in the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood, west of the Rafah city in southern Gaza, according to the Palestinian media.

The attack killed at least four people and injured many others, the reports said


Palestinian groups say they hit series of Israeli targets in Gaza

The armed wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) say they have targeted a number of Israeli soldiers and military vehicles throughout the besieged Gaza Strip.

  • PIJ’s al-Quds Brigades said it destroyed two Israeli military vehicles in Tal al-Hawa using improvised explosive devices.
  • Hamas’s Qassam Brigades said it targeted a group of soldiers with homemade 114mm short-range “Rajum” rockets in the so-called Netzarim Corridor, west of Gaza City. The Netzarim Corridor, named after a Jewish settlement in Gaza that was dismantled in 2005, was set up during the war by the Israeli army to separate northern Gaza from the south.
  • Al-Quds Brigades said it shelled an Israeli military command centre in the Netzarim Corridor.


Qassam claims series of attacks on Israeli military in Tal al-Hawa

In the neighbourhood located in the southern part of Gaza City, the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, says its fighters have:

  • targeted foot soldiers “with an anti-personnel device in the ‘Chalets area’, leaving some dead and others wounded”
  • destroyed a military jeep with al-Yassin 105 rocket on al-Sinaa Street
  • struck a Merkava 4 tank with an IED.
  • clashed with a group of soldiers, leaving some killed and others wounded, in the industrial area of ​​Tal al-Hawa.


Palestinians fleeing amid intense fighting