Pregnant woman among 7 killed by Israelis in possible Gaza City ‘war crime’: HRW
Israeli soldiers stormed a home in Gaza City in December, throwing grenades and firing assault rifles in an attack that killed at least seven people, including a pregnant woman, and left a five-year-old seriously injured, Human Rights Watch has said in a new report calling for a probe of the possible war crime.
Witnesses to the slaughter of the family said the Israeli soldiers also “shot a blind 73-year-old man after securing the building and forcing all other family members out”.
“They decimated a Palestinian family and orphaned a small child who may never be able to walk again,” HRW’s Belkis Wille said in the report. “This incident highlights the deadly cost of Israeli forces’ failure to safeguard, and in some cases to apparently target civilian lives in Gaza, including children,” Wille said.
Israeli forces stormed a Gaza City home on Dec. 21, 2023, throwing grenades inside and opening fire where a civilian family was sheltering.
The attack killed seven people, including a pregnant woman, and severely injured two, including a 5-year-old. https://t.co/zaMDBm8uOV pic.twitter.com/SzLd9spTIY
— Human Rights Watch (@hrw) August 8, 2024
Palestinian fighters manufacture IEDs from unexploded Israeli bombs: Monitors
The Israeli military’s latest orders for people to evacuate from central and eastern Khan Younis in Gaza’s south marks the third time that Israel’s forces have deployed to carry out “clearing operations” as Palestinian fighters reinfiltrate territory after such operations end, war monitors report.
Hamas fighters operating in Khan Younis are also manufacturing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) using unexploded Israeli bombs salvaged from the battlefield, US-based defence think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and Critical Threats Project report (CTP).
On Monday, Hamas fighters said they used a reconstituted bomb from an Israeli F-16 fighter jet to attack Israeli forces east of Khan Younis, according to the latest joint ISW-CTP report.
Fighters with Palestinian Islamic Jihad fired rockets on Thursday at Israeli forces deployed along the Netzarim Corridor, located to the south of Gaza City, the ISW-CTP also reported.
Dawn attack on Nuseirat kills four Palestinians
Israel bombed a home in the early hours of this morning on the eastern side of Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, a spokesman for the civil defence says. Video verified by Al Jazeera shows the bodies of those killed and several others who were wounded arriving at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah.
Prior to this bombing, Israeli attacks overnight had killed at least eight Palestinians.
At least 18 people injured in Jabalia camp
Israeli forces have struck a home near Jabalia camp in northern Gaza, injuring 18 people, report our colleagues on the ground. The attack comes after Israeli forces bombed a separate home in the camp early yesterday morning, killing at least one person.
Israeli military claims to have hit 60 targets in Gaza in past day
Israel’s military claims it has struck 60 targets from the air over the last day, destroying military sites and weaponry. It also says its troops, in conjunction with air strikes, have killed dozens of fighters in Rafah and central Gaza in the last day of fighting.
As we’ve been reporting, its attacks have killed and injured dozens of civilians during this period.
Child killed near Khan Younis
Two people, including a child, have been found killed in the town of Abasan, to the east of Khan Younis, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. Abasan is one of the areas near Khan Younis that Israel told residents to evacuate yesterday, warning its forces would soon begin “forceful” military operations.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports eastern parts of Khan Younis have since faced mass bombardment.
Person found killed by quadcopter near Khan Younis
Emergency medics with the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) have recovered the body of a man killed by a quadcopter attack on the street of al-Qarara near Khan Younis. A local family called rescue services after the man was seen hit in the head by the quadcopter, said the PRCS.
Footage shared by the group shows medics wrapping the man’s body in a white sheet and bringing him to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
Casualties reported in al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’ after Israeli attack
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that an Israeli military attack in Gaza’s al-Mawasi area has killed and injured an unknown number of Palestinians. The report comes as crowds of people from eastern Khan Younis flee towards al-Mawasi, a designated safe zone by the enclave’s western coast.
Five killed in Mawasi al-area
The aerial attack killed at least five Palestinians, including two children, in an area where displaced people are sheltering, according to our colleagues on the ground.
