Casualties reported from predawn Israeli strikes on north, south Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that Israel’s military has bombed the east of the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, and there are casualties from an Israeli attack targeting a house in the town of Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
‘My children cry all day from the heat’: Life in Gaza’s tent camps
It is around 7:30pm and the sun is setting when Nimah Elyan and her four youngest children return home – a beige-coloured tent in a temporary camp in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza – after trying to escape the heat by going to the beach.
“The tent in the summer is hell,” says 45-year-old Nimah as she uses a sponge and a bucket of water to wash her children, who are under the age of seven. “We cannot stay inside the tent for even five minutes during the day. The heat is absolutely unbearable.”
To escape the sweltering conditions during the day, Nimah takes her children to swim in the sea, which lies a few kilometres away. “My children cry all day from the heat,” she says, explaining how their skin suffers from constant exposure to the sun, a lack of hygiene products and water scarcity.
Nimah Elyan and three of her children in the Deir el-Balah tent camp where they have lived since March
Dead and missing following Israeli strike on Gaza City house
One person has been killed and an unknown number are wounded and missing under the rubble following an Israeli strike on a house in the Yarmouk market area in central Gaza City, according to Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent on the ground.
Continuing rocket attacks on Israel prompts latest evacuation order for North Gaza: Monitors
The latest Israeli military evacuation orders for northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoon followed just hours after Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) fighters fired three rockets from the area towards Israel’s cities of Ashkelon and Sderot, war monitors report.
Israel’s military said it would respond “forcefully and immediately” to Tuesday’s rocket barrage by PIJ, which also targeted Israel’s Nir Am area, according to US-based think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP).
While Israeli forces have conducted regular “low intensity clearing operations” over recent months in Beit Hanoon, there have been indications since March that Palestinian fighters had re-entered the area, according to the latest joint report from the ISW-CTP.
The Israeli Air Force also said on Wednesday that it had carried out dozens of strikes on targets across Gaza, including locations in the south that were used to fire at least 18 rockets into Israel over the past week.
Death toll from northern Gaza attacks rises to 7
As we’ve been reporting, Israeli forces bombed a home in Gaza City as well as the Jabalia camp early this morning. According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, the number of people killed in the Gaza City home attack now stands at five.
Further north in Jabalia camp, an attack on a separate home killed another person, it added. Wafa also noted that Palestinian rescuers recovered the body of a Palestinian killed in an attack last night on a third home in Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood.
Elsewhere in the north, Israeli warplanes targeted homes near Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood and the town of Beit Lahiya, Wafa said, without reporting casualties there.
Water infrastructure in Khan Younis heavily damaged: Municipality
Israeli attacks have destroyed more than 70 percent of water pipes and more than 25 water wells in Gaza’s southern region of Khan Younis, according to the municipal authority as cited by Palestinian media.
It also said that more than 1.2 million displaced people were stranded on agricultural land without access to water and that the municipality was trying to deliver water to them.
Palestinian rescuers bring Deir el-Balah victims to hospital
Footage posted by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) shows its medics rushing 14 injured people in Deir el-Balah to receive medical care.
The victims, some with severe injuries, were first taken to Deir el-Balah’s Al-Aqsa Hospital, but several had to move to a smaller, field hospital due to overcrowding, the organisation said.
As we reported yesterday, Israeli forces carried out an attack on homes and tents in Deir el-Balah that killed at least three people and injured dozens, ripping apart people’s bodies, according to witnesses.
Six killed in central Gaza by Israeli attack
Al Jazeera’s correspondent in the Gaza Strip and the Wafa news agency report that three people have been killed and others injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in the Bureij refugee camp.
Attacks on the central Gaza Strip have been constant for the past day, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reported earlier.
Death toll in Bureij strike rises to 15
The death toll from the attack now stands at 15, according to Wafa, up from 6 reported earlier. In addition, separate Israeli strikes on homes in the nearby Nuseirat camp killed four people, according to medics cited by AFP news agency.
Deadly drone strike near Khan Younis
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting an Israeli drone strike east of Khan Younis has killed one person.
As we’ve been reporting, Khan Younis has been hammered by Israeli attacks over the past day with earlier strikes killing and injuring dozens of people in the southern Gaza city, including children sheltering in tents.
Israel’s military tells Palestinians to evacuate Khan Younis neighbourhoods
Israel’s military has urged Palestinians to flee from numerous areas in and around Khan Younis, claiming Hamas fighters are firing rockets from there and that Israel will respond “forcefully”.
In a statement on X, Israel’s Arabic language spokesperson listed numerous towns and neighbourhoods near Khan Younis that residents should leave, including Bani Suheila, Abasan, Khuza’a and Sheikh Nasser.
He called on civilians there to immediately head to the designated humanitarian zone, located in the al-Mawasi area near the coast, western Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah.
Israel’s military has repeatedly attacked areas it has designated as humanitarian zones in recent months, killing at least 110 people in eight air strikes, according to an ABC News investigation that cites Palestinian Health Ministry figures.
