Israeli forces hit with ‘particularly lethal’ IEDs in Gaza City offensive: Monitors
The Israeli ground offensive in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood continues, with Israeli forces claiming that they eliminated Palestinian fighters firing surface-to-air and antitank missiles as they came under attack from mortar shells fired by Hamas and other groups.
In addition to Shujayea, evacuation orders have now been issued for Gaza City’s Sabra, Rimal, Tal al-Hawa, and Daraj neighbourhoods, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) report.
Palestinian fighters hit Israeli forces with at least five improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as they advanced into Tal al-Hawa on Monday, with two of the IEDs comprising “particularly lethal and advanced” explosively formed penetrators, the report said.
The US-based defence think tanks note that the latest raid by Israeli forces on Tal al-Hawa follows after the neighbourhood was “cleared” of Palestinian fighters in February.
The military also claimed that hundreds of houses have been rigged with explosive boobytraps throughout Rafah city in the south of Gaza, where fighting is ongoing
Israeli tanks next to destroyed buildings in the southern Gaza Strip on July 3
Powerful explosion in Nur Shams during Israeli raid
A huge cloud of smoke has been seen rising in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the Tulkarem governorate of the occupied West Bank following an explosion. It came during an Israeli military raid in the area.
The Tulkarem Battalion, a local branch of al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), later said it detonated an IED on a vehicle used by Israeli forces storming the camp.
#شاهد | انفجار ضخم في مخيم نور شمس بطولكرم قبل قليل. pic.twitter.com/EXa5KVrZKk
— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) July 9, 2024
