Fighting and strikes from Gaza’s top to bottom
Israeli forces have pushed deeper into eastern Khan Younis in southern Gaza and tanks have advanced in nearby Rafah city, with air strikes and artillery shelling hammering both areas.
Gaza’s health ministry said Israeli attacks in Khan Younis killed 14 people, taking the death toll across the coastal region over the past 24 hours to 30 people, with 146 wounded.
Fierce fighting in recent days has centred around the eastern Khan Younis towns of Bani Suaila, az-Zanna, and al-Karara. Israeli bombardment intensified in several areas in Rafah, near the border with Egypt, as tanks operated north, west and in the city centre, residents and medics said.
Central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, where tanks haven’t yet invaded, is currently overcrowded with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced from other areas of the war-battered enclave.
In northern Gaza, an Israeli air strike on a house in the Sheikh Radwan suburb killed four people, medics said.
Palestinian medics targeted directly in Khan Younis
Israeli military forces fired live rounds at an ambulance that was evacuating an injured person in Khan Younis, where a new ground invasion is expanding, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
‘Snipers shooting anyone who moves’ in Khan Younis
In the past hour, we’ve heard a new wave of air strikes by Israeli fighter jets that targeted the central areas of Gaza. In Bureij, which is a very active warzone between Hamas fighters and Israeli forces, fighting continues to rage.
The main focus of the ongoing Israeli assault is the eastern part of Khan Younis city where at least 20 Palestinians have been killed since the early hours of today. The vast majority of dead and injured are women and children.
Witnesses say Israeli snipers have been deployed there and are shooting anyone who is moving. Casualties continue to arrive at Nasser Hospital, with many victims in critical condition, medical sources say.
A Palestinian boy is treated at Nasser Hospital after being wounded in Khan Younis
Displaced families in Khan Younis set up camp in cemetery
Video posted on X by a Palestinian journalist shows families establishing makeshift shelters in a cemetery in Khan Younis due to the influx of displaced people and overcrowding at shelters.
On Monday, the Israeli army ordered a fresh round of evacuations from areas of Khan Younis immediately following them with violent bombardment. The UN says that the evacuation orders affected around 150,000 people.
Displaced people live with the dead As a result of overcrowding and repeated displacement, dozens of Palestinian families were forced to live inside cemeteries for the dead in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip. The voice of the displaced: We and the dead are the same inside the cemeteries.
PRCS says rescue efforts ongoing in Gaza City amid Israeli strikes
Israel’s strikes on Gaza City are ongoing, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has said, as its teams attempt to evacuate the wounded and take them to hospital.
The organisation posted a video showing their efforts to rescue injured Palestinians, including women.
