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Israeli military bombs apartment in Khan Younis, killing 4

The Israeli military has bombed an apartment building in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, killing at least four people, including children, according to our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues.


Artillery shelling rocks central Gaza after bloody night of attacks

We woke up today to the sound of heavy artillery shelling. The shelling took place in the eastern areas of Deir el-Balah and Bureij refugee camp. We understand that Israel’s military has told residents of both Bureij and Nuseirat not to stay in the areas, which will be designated as active war zones.

There have also been loud explosions in the western side of Khan Younis, which is adjacent to Rafah, where a military operation is still ongoing.

In total, overnight strikes in Gaza killed eight Palestinians and wounded over 30 others. One of those strikes killed a pregnant woman alongside her husband and two of her kids. These are tragic scenes for families, who are heartbroken.


Israel’s ‘slow progress’ in Rafah due to Palestinian resistance: Monitors

The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades fired mortar shells at Israeli forces operating along the Netzarim Corridor and Israeli soldiers continued to battle in Rafah city where their ground operation “has been delayed” by the tenacity of Palestinian resistance, war monitors report.

According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP), Israel’s ground offensive in the southern city has been “delayed for several weeks due to slow progress in degrading the Rafah Brigade”.

On Friday, Palestinian fighters launched at least 20 rockets towards southern Israel from an area between Rafah and Khan Younis where Israeli troops are currently operating, the US-based think tanks said.

To the west of Rafah, in the al-Brahama neighbourhood, fighters with the National Resistance Brigades used anti-personnel landmines to target Israeli soldiers, according to latest ISW-CTP joint Gaza report.

Five killed near Khan Younis

Israeli forces have targeted a home in the Miraj area, south of Khan Younis, killing at least five people, report our colleagues on the ground. The attack comes amid renewed artillery shelling in central Gaza’s Bureij as well, according to our colleagues, where an overnight raid killed a mother and her child.

Rescuers rush to scene of attacked home near Khan Younis

Emergency services in Khan Younis are looking for survivors after an Israeli military strike hit a residential home. At least five Palestinians, including a woman, have reportedly been killed in the attack, which was carried out without warning.

We also continue to hear loud explosions in central Gaza, which has been the latest focal point of Israel’s army.

Three women, child killed in Khan Younis attack: Report

Among the five people killed are a child and three women, reports the Palestinian Wafa news agency, quoting local sources. They are all members of the Abu Hasna family, it said.



Civil defence reports deadly Israeli strike on Bureij

The rescue organisation in the Gaza Strip says its crews recovered the bodies of two people who were killed when the Israeli army bombed a house in Block 1 of the Bureij refugee camp.

The civil defence added that three people were wounded in the attack on central Gaza.


Two killed in Israeli shelling of Gaza City

Al Jazeera’s correspondent, citing Gaza’s civil defence, reports that two people were killed and one was injured by an Israeli attack on the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City in the northern Strip.

Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have surged in the past hours, with one on Bureij killing at least three Palestinians and another on Khan Younis killing at least five people.