Israel’s military siege of northern Gaza
Deaths, injuries as Israeli military bombs home in Shati camp
Israeli fighter jets bombed the Qadiri family home in the Shati refugee camp in the west of Gaza City, northern Gaza, killing a “number of citizens” and injuring others, the Wafa news agency reports.
Two bodies recovered in Jabalia
Medical sources tell Al Jazeera that the bodies of two people killed in Jabalia in northern Gaza have been recovered. They were killed in Israeli bombardment.
Separately, Israeli raids and heavy gunfire are reported in the coastal area of al-Mawasi in the west of Rafah in southern Gaza.
Israeli warplanes attack 150 targets in Gaza, Lebanon in one day: Military
Israel’s military said its air force carried out an estimated 150 attacks on sites in the Gaza Strip and in Lebanon on Thursday, including munitions warehouses, rocket launch sites, and sniper and observation posts.
During the night, “the combat team” of Israel’s Givati Brigade joined forces with Division 162 in the siege and ground offensive against Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the territory, the military said. Attacks by the air force on Thursday in Jabalia had “eliminated dozens of terrorists”, the military added.
An estimated 400,000 Palestinians have been trapped by the Israeli military’s two-week-long siege of the north of the Strip, where supplies of food, water and medicine have not entered and rescue workers are unable to recover the bodies of people killed in the streets and trapped under the rubble of buildings bombed by Israel.
Scenes of chaos at hospital in the aftermath of Israeli attack on school
Al Jazeera’s Moath al-Kahlout, reporting from the Jabalia refugee camp, says the Israeli army bombed a school in the centre of the camp. Reporting from the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya – close to the camp – as casualties arrived, he said the vast majority of the injured were children.
Ambulances were seen arriving at the scene as well as a horse cart, carrying a wounded person. The school was full of displaced Palestinians, our correspondent said, reporting from the extremely crowded hospital as more casualties arrived.
Israel sends more troops into northern Gaza
The Israeli military says it has sent another army unit to support its forces operating in the Jabalia refugee camp, where it has been carrying out a major offensive.
The Israeli military said its forces, which have been operating in Jabalia for the past two weeks, killed dozens of fighters in close-quarters combat on Thursday and carried out air strikes. At least 28 Palestinians, including children, were killed in an Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in Jabalia, a health official has said.
The Israeli military claims its operation in Jabalia aims to stop Hamas fighters from regrouping for more attacks. It has laid siege to northern Gaza since last week, trapping tens of thousands of people without access to food and water. Residents say the Israeli forces operating in the region have been blowing up roads and houses as they thrust further into the territory.
Number of people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza rises to 42,500
The Health Ministry in Gaza has released its daily report of the people killed and wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza. It said at least 62 people have been killed and 300 wounded in the latest 24-hour reporting period.
The new figures brought the number of people killed since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza more than a year ago to 42,500 with 99,546 people wounded.
