Israel say Hamas officials killed in Gaza; Palestinians hit Israelis in north, south: Monitors
Israel’s military claims to have killed two Hamas officials in recent strikes on the Gaza Strip while Palestinian fighters have targeted Israeli troops and armour with anti-personnel mines and rocket-propelled grenades in the north and south of the enclave, monitors report.
According to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP), Israel claimed it killed the commander of Hamas’s Sheikh Radwan Battalion and the group’s minister of economy in attacks on Sunday.
On Monday, Palestinian fighters targeted an Israeli armoured personnel carrier with a mine in Gaza City Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood and fired mortars at Israeli troops deployed on the Netzarim Corridor, located south of Gaza City, the US-based think tanks report.
Hamas fighters carried out three attacks in eastern Khan Younis on Monday, including detonating an antipersonnel mine that targeted Israeli soldiers stationed inside a building in the city. In nearby Rafah, three improvised explosive devices were detonated targeting Israeli soldiers, the ISW-CTP reports, and at least 15 rockets were fired from southern Gaza towards Israel.
Six bodies recovered in Bureij, Rafah
The bodies of five people killed in central Gaza’s Bureij camp and one person killed in Rafah have been recovered, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. Bureij is among several areas in central Gaza shelled by Israeli forces today, according to their earlier report.
Rafah has also been targeted by Israeli attacks today, the report added, with several residential buildings destroyed there.
Trail of destruction in Bureij after deadly overnight attacks
Israeli air strikes continue to pound central Gaza, as well as hitting the eastern part of Khan Younis in what seem to be concentrated attacks.
The Israeli military is describing their attacks as “targeted killings” but judging from the kind of targets they are hitting and the people showing up injured at the hospital, they seem quite the contrary.
In the Bureij refugee camp, for example, four brothers from one family were killed in overnight attacks. It was not until this morning that paramedics and rescue teams were able to get to their bombed house and remove their bodies from under the rubble.
Eyewitnesses described the bombing as quite intense, causing massive explosions that not only destroyed the targeted home but also the majority of properties, residential homes and infrastructure in the area.
Malnutrition getting ‘worse and worse’
Malnutrition in Gaza has become widespread, and the aid provided is just a “drop in the ocean” compared to people’s actual needs, according to Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, deputy medical coordinator with Doctors Without Borders, a charity also known by its French initials MSF.
The situation has grown so dire that even members of Abu Mughaisib’s own team have reported suffering from malnutrition.
“It’s getting worse and worse,” he told Al Jazeera from Gaza’s southern district of Rafah. “It’s not only the north, it’s the entire Gaza Strip” that is affected.
Displaced Palestinian children carry rations of soup distributed by volunteers in Rafah, southern Gaza
