Deaths, injuries as Israeli military continues assault on Gaza
The Wafa news agency reports several Israeli military attacks across the Gaza Strip in recent hours. They include:
- Three bodies, including one of a child, have arrived at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, following an Israeli strike on a gathering in the town of Abasan, east of Khan Younis.
- Several people were injured following Israeli artillery shelling at the Bani Suheila roundabout, east of Khan Younis.
- One person was killed following Israeli shelling targeting the Mufti area north of the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.
- Israeli forces shot and injured a child in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza.
- One person was killed and a number of others injured following an Israeli air strike on a gathering east of the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City, northern Gaza.
- Several people were also injured after the Israeli military bombed a house in the al-Shimaa area in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza.
Israeli artillery shelling reported in Khan Younis and Nuseirat
We are getting reports from our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues in Gaza of a new round of Israeli artillery shelling in the central area of the city of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Palestinian territory. Israeli artillery shelling was also reported on the northern side of the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.
Child among those killed in overnight Israeli strike in southern Gaza: Report
At least four Palestinians, including a child, were killed and several others injured overnight following one of several Israeli air attacks on two civilian gatherings in southern Gaza.
Citing medical sources at Nasser Hospital, the Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that the bodies of three victims, including a child, were brought to the facility after a gathering in the town of Abasan was hit.
In addition, one person was killed and others injured in a separate Israeli air attack on the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City.
Smoke rises in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip after Israeli troops targeted a building in the area on Thursday
Car struck in Khan Younis, killing 4
An Israeli attack has hit a car in the southeastern part of Khan Younis, killing at least four people, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic and the Palestinian Civil Defence in Gaza.
Meanwhile, people have been injured from artillery strikes to the north of Nuseirat refugee camp, they report.
Casualties reported in Israeli strike on Nuseirat refugee camp
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing medical sources, report that four people have been killed and many others injured in an attack on a residential home in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Fast facts: Nuseirat refugee camp
It was established in the aftermath of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 that led to the creation of Israel. Before Israel’s war on Gaza, it had been densely populated, home to 85,409 Palestine refugees registered with UNRWA.
The camp has been the target of Israeli raids and attacks since the start of the war. Here are just some:
- On October 18, the Grand Nuseirat Mosque was mostly destroyed.
- On March 17, 36 members of the Tabatibi family were killed in an Israeli air strike.
- On April 11, the Israeli army launched its first ground operation into the camp, attacking two mosques, a UN-run school and the Malaysian school, killing at least four people.
- On April 12, Sami Shehadeh, a journalist with Turkish broadcaster TRT, had his foot amputated after being wounded in an Israeli attack there.
- On June 6, the mayor of Nuseirat, Iyad al-Maghari, was killed in an Israeli raid, and 40 people were killed in the Israeli air attack on a UN-run school in Nuseirat, according to the director of Gaza’s Government Media Office.
- On June 8, the Nuseirat massacre took place when Israeli forces killed at least 274 Palestinians to free four Israeli captives.
- On June 18, Local media reported at least 17 deaths in the Nuseirat refugee camp following a night of heavy Israeli bombardment.
- On July 14, Israeli forces killed at least 17 people after it struck the UN-run Abu Oraiban school sheltering displaced Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Fighting ‘rages’ between Israeli forces, Hamas in Deir el-Balah
Israeli forces are now in Deir el-Balah city. They are operating in the eastern area, while Palestinian families are trapped in the western side.
Horrific bombardment took place overnight and into the early hours of the morning. We continue to hear loud explosions now and then. We also hear the sound of Israeli drones every hour. The fighting is really raging between Hamas fighters and Israeli forces in eastern areas of the city.
We’ve also heard that the Israeli army is now operating in the city of Khan Younis, 19 blocks of which have been told to evacuate. Their residents are now heading to the western side of Khan Younis, close to al-Mawasi.
Everyone is exhausted, trapped in a very small patch of land. They have a growing sense of frustration each day as the fighting continues.
Soldier killed in southern Gaza: Israeli military
It said that Ashkenazi Nechemya, 19, from Ashkelon, was killed in the south of the Palestinian enclave, bringing the total number of Israeli soldiers killed on or since October 7 to 695.
The figure includes 332 soldiers who the Israeli military claims have been killed since it began ground operations in the Gaza Strip on October 27.
Over a dozen injured, 1 killed in Israeli strike on tents sheltering displaced Palestinians: PRCS
The Palestine Red Crescent (PRCS) has posted a video on X of its emergency service crews operating in the al-Mawasi area of al-Qarara, west of Khan Younis, after Israeli forces targeted tents sheltering displaced people.
It says that its crews transported 17 injured people and the body of one person killed in the attack.
