Eight confirmed dead, six of them children children in Israeli bombing in Nuseirat camp
Six children were killed in an Israeli bombing of a house in the Nuseirat camp, an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent reports. Ten people have also been injured in the attack, which happened in the early hours of this morning.
Israeli forces also demolished residential buildings in the al-Mughraqa area, north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera Arabic reports.
Palestinians search the remains of Nuseirat home destroyed in Israeli attack
Palestinians inspect a house destroyed in an Israeli strike in the Nuseirat refugee camp on Tuesday
Seventeen members of one family, including 14 women and children, were killed in an Israeli strike on a home in Nuseirat on Tuesday, the Gaza Government Media Office said
Nuseirat has experienced several Israeli attacks in several days, including raids on two schools being used as shelters.
Israeli military says ‘commando’ killed in Gaza fighting
The 21-year-old major was serving with a “commando formation” in the Maglan unit, which specialises in reconnaissance and operations behind enemy lines, when he was killed in fighting on Tuesday in central Gaza, the military said in a post on social media.
The UN, citing official Israeli military sources, said that up to Monday this week, 324 Israeli soldiers had been killed in fighting in Gaza or along the territory’s border with Israel since the start of Israel’s ground offensive against the Palestinian territory. An additional 2,097 Israeli soldiers have been reported injured in the war on Gaza during the same period.
Intense fighting as Israel’s Gaza City offensive expands to Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) fighters fired thermobaric rockets and mortars at Israeli forces and detonated improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the battle for the Tal al-Hawa area of Gaza City on Tuesday.
US-based defence think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) also report that the Israeli Air Force continued to strike targets across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, in what Israel described as attacks on “militia infrastructure and tunnels”.
In fighting in southern Rafah city, PIJ and fighters with the National Resistance Brigades fired mortars at Israeli troops and engaged in “close-range combat”.
Rockets continued to be fired into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip on Monday, the ISW and CTP say in their latest battlefield report.
