Israeli army says it struck fighters in Rafah
A military statement on X says the fighters were hit in an air attack after they were seen emerging from a tunnel shaft in the city located in southern Gaza.
The fighters were spotted by surveillance teams, the statement said. In a separate development in Rafah, Israeli soldiers launched an air strike on a building where they had spotted fighters, according to the army.
It added that about 30 other targets were hit by Israeli air attacks across the enclave over the past day, including buildings used by fighters, antitank positions, and weapon depots.
Dozens wounded as Israeli military carries out attacks across Gaza
The Israeli military has carried out several attacks across the Gaza Strip in recent hours, injuring dozens of people, the Wafa news agency reports. The attacks include:
- Israeli fighter jets bombed two towers in the Hamad residential district north of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, injuring five people.
- Israeli forces blew up residential buildings west of Rafah and shelled the western and northern areas of the city.
- Israeli forces shelled and fired heavy weaponry at homes in the Zeitoun and Tal al-Hawa neighbourhoods of Gaza City.
- Israeli gunboats shelled the port area and the outskirts of the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
- Israeli artillery shelled eastern areas of the Bureij camp and northern areas of the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.
- An Israeli quadcopter drone shot a girl in the face east of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza. She has been transferred to al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital and her condition is not known.
Al-Quds Brigades claims attacks on Israeli targets near Khan Younis
The armed wing of Palestinian Islamic Jihad says it has bombarded Israeli soldiers and vehicles northeast of the city. The group said on Telegram that its fighters also bombed an Israeli command centre near an area called Hill 86 in the same region.
‘Israel keeps shrinking al-Mawasi evacuation zone’
The tragedy of the new wave of evacuations can be explained by the fact that the evacuation zone is being shrunk by eating up part of it and including it in the Red Zone.
This is just not giving enough space in an already small area for people who have been ordered sharply to evacuate to. We are talking about the al-Mawasi evacuation zone in the western part of Khan Younis city.
This area extends from the western part of Deir el-Balah city on the coastal road to Khan Younis city as well as Rafah city in southern Gaza.
It is mainly agricultural land, but unfortunately, it lacks the major basic necessities and supplies for the people to sustain their lives and cope with the hard living conditions – let alone the summer heat and many diseases spreading.
Really difficult living conditions have been created by the intense bombing campaign in the last few months.
Btw every American tax payer has already contributed over $109 dollars each to blow up Gazans.
(IRS processed 164,997,000 individual tax returns in 2022, 3.5 billion annual military assistance plus 14.5 billion extra this year)
