Elsewhere in Gaza, Nuseirat remains under intense Israeli attack
While Gaza City in the northern Strip reels from Israel’s early-morning attack on al-Tabin School in the Daraj neighbourhood, our correspondents report that Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza is being heavily assaulted by the Israeli army.
Here’s what’s been happening:
- Israeli gunboats have fired towards the shores of Nuseirat.
- Helicopter gunships have fired intensively in the northwest of Nuseirat camp.
- Artillery shelling has hit the az-Zahra area in the northwest of Nuseirat.
Rocket fire from Gaza continues to take aim at Israel: Monitors
Palestinian fighters carried out at least three rocket attacks targeting sites in southern Israel on Friday, according to US-based defence monitors.
One salvo was intercepted by Israel’s “Iron Dome” missile system near the city of Ashkelon, north of Gaza, and two rockets landed in open areas to the east of the Palestinian territory in the Kissufim and Ein HaShlosha region, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) reported.
Despite 10 months of war in Gaza, Israeli forces have been unable to stop rocket attacks from Gaza targeting Israel and are engaged now in “re-clearing” areas of the Palestinian territory which they claimed – months ago – had been emptied of Palestinian resistance.
The ISW-CTP reported earlier this week that Israel’s latest mass evacuation order for northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoon area was prompted by a rocket attack by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which targeted Israel’s Ashkelon and Sderot cities. By Thursday, at least 18 rockets had been fired from Gaza into Israel over the previous week, the ISW-CTP said.
Seven killed near Khan Younis
As Gaza City reels from the deadly attack on al-Tabin school, Israeli forces have continued to carry out strikes elsewhere in the Strip. The latest is an aerial assault in the Mann area, east of Khan Younis, which killed seven people, according to the Wafa news agency.
Home attacked in Jabalia camp
We are getting reports of another Israeli attack in northern Gaza, this time targeting a home in Jabalia refugee camp. The attack killed and injured numerous Palestinians, our colleagues on the ground report.
Strike near Nuseirat mosque kills three people
Earlier, we reported that central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp was under heavy assault. Our colleagues on the ground now report that Israel’s military has carried out an attack near one of the camp’s mosques, killing at least three people.
It follows another Israeli attack on a family home west of the camp on Friday that killed four people, according to Gaza’s Civil Defence.
Drone strike kills one near Deir el-Balah
Israel’s military has carried out another attack in central Gaza, this time an air strike at a family’s home near Deir el-Balah, according to the Wafa news agency. The drone attack killed at least one person and injured others in the Baraka area, just south of Deir el-Balah, said Wafa.
It comes after an earlier strike in the nearby Nuseirat camp that killed three people.
