Children injured following Israeli strike on home in Bureij camp
Earlier, we reported that the Israeli military had bombed a house near the entrance of the Bureij camp in central Gaza.
The Wafa news agency now reports that seven people, mostly children, have been injured in the strike, which targeted the Abu Gharqoud family home. Their condition is still unknown.
Local media has also reported Israeli helicopter fire and shelling north of the camp.
Hamas retains stock of ‘particularly lethal’ IEDs, war monitors say
Commandos and paratroopers fought Palestinian fighters in Khan Younis on Wednesday as Hamas units targeted Israeli armour with “particularly lethal” improvised explosive devices (IEDs) on three occasions in the Bani Suheila area of the southern city, war monitors report.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threat Project (CTP) said Hamas’s continued use of difficult-to-produce “explosively formed penetrators” against Israeli armour indicates it retains stockpiles of such weapons even after four months of fighting in Khan Younis.
Palestinian fighters in Khan Younis’s Bani Suheila also attacked Israeli forces with rocket-propelled grenades and mortar shells on Wednesday, the US-based defence think tanks report.
Fighting in nearby Rafah city continued to rage, including the detonation of a booby-trapped building in the Yibna refugee camp area when Israeli forces were inside.
Rockets were also fired from Gaza towards a military target in southern Israel, the ISW/CTP report.
Dozens of targets struck in Gaza air strikes: Israeli army
More than 60 targets have been hit by Israeli warplanes, attack helicopters and drones in the Gaza Strip over the past day, according to the military.
In Khan Younis, the military said troops killed a number of fighters and destroyed some 50 sites belonging to armed groups. Operations continue in Khan Younis, Rafah and the Netzarim Corridor area, the army added.
Qassam Brigades says it killed Israeli soldiers in Rafah tunnel blast
Palestinian fighters blew up Israeli soldiers after luring them into two tunnels in Rafah city’s Yabna refugee camp in southern Gaza, the armed wing of Hamas says.
A statement on Telegram said Hamas soldiers also destroyed an Israeli position near az-Zelaal Mosque in eastern Khan Younis with mortar fire. The attack was carried out in coordination with al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Heavy fighting has been reported throughout southern Gaza after Israel’s army launched new ground assaults this week. According to Israeli military figures, at least 684 soldiers have been killed and 4,213 others wounded since the outbreak of the war on October 7.
