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SvennoJ on 14 August 2024
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Latest Israeli strikes on Gaza Strip kill at least 16

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that at least 16 people have been reported killed in predawn Israeli attacks that targeted central and northern Gaza.

We reported earlier that two people had been killed in Israeli artillery shelling of an apartment building in northern Beit Lahiya city and three people were killed and several injured in an Israeli attack on a house in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.

Strikes in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City have also been reported.


Four killed in attack on south Gaza apartment: Civil defence

The Palestinian rescue organisation says in a statement that its crews recovered the bodies of four people. It said that they were killed when the apartment they were in, owned by the al-Tawil family, was bombed by the Israeli army in the city of Khan Younis.

Fighting and bombardment remain intense in the eastern areas of the city after Israel launched a new offensive last week, displacing nearly 70,000 residents from their homes, according to the UN.


Israeli military claims to strike 40 sites in Gaza within 24 hours

Israel’s military says its troops, supported by air forces, have killed numerous fighters and destroyed Hamas military infrastructure in southern and central Gaza over the last day. Among the sites it targeted are sniper posts and missile launch sites, it said, adding that its warplanes hit 40 targets.

Israeli attacks in Gaza have also killed numerous civilians in the last day, including several children in an apartment in Deir el-Balah.


Long-range Hamas rockets launched from site near Israeli forces: Monitors

The two long-range rockets fired at Israel’s Tel Aviv were launched from a site just 1.5km (0.93 miles) from where Israeli forces were operating in the east of Khan Younis on Tuesday, war monitors report.

One of the Hamas rockets landed in the Mediterranean off the Israeli coast with the sound of the explosion heard in Tel Aviv. The second rocket failed and did not enter Israeli territory.

According to US-based think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP), the Israeli military issued mass evacuation orders for Gaza’s Bani Suheila area – the rocket launch site – hours after the M90 rockets were fired at Tel Aviv.

The rocket fire marks the first targeting of Tel Aviv since May by Hamas and comes as Palestinian fighters continue near-daily launches of short-range rockets into Israel despite more than 10 months of grinding war in Gaza.

Though Hamas’s long-range rocket supply is dwindling, Israel’s military assesses that it is still capable of attacking targets in central Israel or occupied Jerusalem, the ISW-CTP report.


Twenty killed in Gaza in latest Israeli strikes: Report

The Wafa news agency now reports that Israel’s early-morning strikes in Gaza have killed at least 20 people, up from our earlier toll of 16.

They include:

  • Seven killed in a family home in the Nuseirat camp
  • Four killed in a residential apartment in Khan Younis
  • Three killed in a home in the Maghazi camp
  • Three killed in Rafah’s Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood
  • Two killed by sniper fire in the town of Bani Suheila, east of Khan Younis


Two civil defence members killed in Rafah

In a statement on its official Telegram channel, the Palestinian rescue organisation says that two of its team members, “Fire Sergeant Suhaib Adel Abu Taqiya and Sergeant Hussein Diab Abu Jamous”, were killed in an Israeli attack in southern Gaza’s Rafah.

The statement says that they were killed by “Israeli bullets”, and that the two men’s deaths bring the total number of civil defence personnel killed during Israel’s war on Gaza to 82.

The 82 were “martyred while they were still at work providing humanitarian services to our people in the Gaza Strip”, the organisation said.


Three children killed in Khan Younis neighbourhood

Israeli forces have shelled the Khan Younis neighbourhood of Batn al-Samin, killing five people, including three children, reports the Wafa news agency.

Israeli helicopters have also fired shots to the east of the neighoburhood, said Wafa, without reporting additional casualties.

The attacks come after our earlier report of a lethal strike on a residential apartment in Khan Younis, which the Israeli military issued expanded evacuation orders for yesterday. The latest evacuation orders for Khan Younis, Gaza’s second largest city, have pushed at least 75,000 Palestinians out of the area, according to the United Nations


Two Palestinians killed, multiple injured in Israeli strikes in Gaza

The Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza says its paramedics in Khan Younis retrieved the body of one Palestinian who was killed and two others who were injured.

They were hit by an Israeli strike on a residential apartment in the Batn as-Sameen area, south of the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society also released a video that showed its paramedics transporting the body of a Palestinian killed in a drone strike in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoon.