Wave of Israeli strikes hits central Gaza
Our correspondent on the ground reports a flurry of Israeli air attacks targeting Bureij and Nuseirat in the central Strip.
We do not have exact numbers on the casualties that resulted from these strikes at this time, but medical sources have told Al Jazeera that at least 25 people have been killed by Israel across the Gaza Strip today.
We will continue to bring you more on the situation in central Gaza as information comes in.
People have nowhere to go after Israeli evacuation orders
The evacuation orders issued to residents in northern and central Gaza have been accompanied with heavy artillery bombardment and aerial attacks by Israeli fighter jets.
We have been hearing huge blasts in the past two hours coming from Nuseirat and Bureij. Also, we saw a number of Palestinians fleeing from eastern areas, heading to Deir el-Balah and the coastline – a very crowded area where people have been taking shelter.
A residential building has been directly targeted without any sort of warning in Nuseirat, killing three Palestinians.
Medical sources told Al Jazeera that at least 25 Palestinians have been killed since the early hours of this morning.
The real question now rising is where these people should go right now as the people in the north of Gaza are living in the ruins of their destroyed homes and now they have been told to flee to the western areas of Gaza – which have been also under heavy bombardment.
And in the central area, there are more than a million Palestinians trapped under Israeli attacks.
Israeli army pounds northern Gaza
We are receiving reports from our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues that the Israeli military has scaled up its air attacks on several locations across northern Gaza with an intensity not seen lately.
At least 30 salvoes pounded Beit Hanoon, Beit Lahiya and Jabalia, causing mass displacement.
One person killed in Israeli shelling of north Gaza
The Gaza Strip’s civil defence says that an Israeli strike targeted the home of the Afana family in Bir al-Naajah, northern Gaza. It said that its crews recovered one person killed in the attack from the rubble, stressing that others are still trapped in the wreckage of the building.
As we reported earlier, Israel has stepped up its strikes on the north of the Gaza Strip this evening, at a pace our correspondent reports has not been seen in some time there.
At least 11 killed in northern Gaza
At least 11 people were killed in a barrage of Israeli rockets in northern Gaza, the Civil Defence in the Strip has said, adding that more people were trapped under the rubble.
“Our crews are unable to deal with the large number of residential homes targeted by the Israeli occupation tonight in the northern Gaza Strip,” it said on its Telegram channel.
“There are still people trapped under the rubble of these homes, and the crews are unable to deal with them due to the simultaneous bombing and the lack of heavy rescue equipment,” it added.
As previously reported, the Israeli army struck Beit Hanoon, Beit Lahiya and Jabalia with at least 30 salvos, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent, noting that such intensity had not been seen lately.
