Palestinian group says Israeli armoured vehicle destroyed in Rafah
Palestinian fighters with the National Resistance Brigades reported destroying an Israeli armoured personnel carrier using an improvised explosive device (IED) in Rafah city’s Kaf al-Mashrou area on Thursday, war monitors report.
US-based defence think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) report also that mortars were fired at Israeli troops in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood.
Israeli forces came under fire on the Netzarim Corridor, located south of Gaza City, while Hamas fighters launched a barrage of rockets at southern Israel’s Mefalsim and Nir Am areas, also on Thursday, the monitors said.
Death toll from Nuseirat attack rises to eight
As we’ve been reporting, an Israeli bombardment overnight targeted a home in the Block C area of the Nuseirat refugee camp. The attack is now confirmed to have killed at least eight people, including children, according to the Palestinian Wafa news agency.
At least 15 more people were wounded in the attack.
Strikes target southern Gaza City
Israeli artillery and gunfire has sounded in southern neighbourhoods of Gaza City, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
It is unclear if the strikes have caused casualties. They follow an attack yesterday on a UN-run school in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighbourhood that killed two people.
New attack on Nuseirat refugee camp kills 9 more people
Israeli warplanes have bombed a home in Nuseirat, killing nine people and injuring others, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic and local media outlets.
The attack follows another strike on a home in the refugee camp yesterday that killed at least eight people.
Two dead, 1 injured in Israeli air attack on car in Deir el-Balah: PRCS
Footage posted by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) shows its medics rushing a person injured in an Israeli attack on their car to Deir el-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Hospital.
The attack, which took place in the area of al-Birka south of Deir el-Balah, also killed two people whose bodies the PRCS medics retrieved, it said.
🚨The Palestine Red Crescent crews transported two martyrs and an injured person from the Al-Birka area near the UNRWA barracks south of Deir Al-Balah city after the Israeli occupation forces targeted a car. The victims were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.
📷Filmed by PRCS… pic.twitter.com/pYFcJuuQBs
— PRCS (@PalestineRCS) July 19, 2024
‘Anarchy’ spreading in Gaza after Israel dismantles public order: UN
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) has warned that “anarchy” is spreading in the Gaza Strip with looting, unlawful killings and shootings rampant as the population faces an acute humanitarian crisis.
Ajith Sunghay, head of the OHCHR for Gaza and the occupied West Bank, described unlawful killings and looting in the absence of law enforcement and linked them to “Israel’s dismantling of local capacity to maintain public order and safety in Gaza”.
“Our office has documented alleged unlawful killings of local police and humanitarian workers and the strangulation of supplies indispensable to the survival of the civilian population. Anarchy is spreading,” said Sunghay, who returned on Thursday from a visit to Gaza.
