Reports of telecoms blackout as Israeli forces attack northern Gaza
Just in the last hours, there has been more information that the Israeli forces have cut off communication and internet networks to the northern part of Gaza, in particular in Jabalia.
This was a highly predictable step because the army has been obliterating everything in Jabalia – residential homes, key infrastructure and even the communication towers that provide Palestinians with internet connection and signals to communicate with each other.
This means that the military might now expand its operation in Jabalia. They have worked before in destroying residential homes and civilians there are reporting horrific aerial and ground attacks over the past 24 hours.
We know that since dawn today at least 20 Palestinians have been killed, including 11 only in the Jabalia refugee camp.
People run from shelling in Gaza’s Jabalia; house bulldozed with family inside
Videos posted on social media and verified by Al Jazeera show heavy smoke enveloping a heavily damaged building in Jabalia in northern Gaza and chaotic scenes as people run for cover amid heavy Israeli shelling.
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, meanwhile, report that Israeli bulldozers have demolished a house in the al-Faluja area, where a family of displaced Palestinians are living.
Medical crews were unable to reach the house to evacuate the family before the house was demolished while they were inside.
There are also reports of an ongoing telecoms blackout as Israeli military vehicles and a large number of soldiers advance towards the Jabalia refugee camp from several directions.
Six Palestinians killed in Gaza City, Jabalia: Report
The Palestinian news agency Wafa, quoting Palestine Red Crescent Society medics, reports that four Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli drone strike in the al-Nusra neighbourhood of Gaza City.
It also stated that two Palestinians have been killed near al-Awda Hospital in Jabalia. Earlier in the day, three Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
Seven people wounded in Israeli attack on Beit Lahiya
Gaza’s Civil Defence says in a statement that the Israeli army has attacked a home belonging to the Salha family, wounding seven people. The people were rescued from under the rubble of the home, the Civil Defence said, but one person remains missing.
Israel has killed a least 39 people in Gaza today, mostly in Jabalia
Medical sources have given Al Jazeera an updated death toll for today, saying that at least 39 have been killed across the Strip by Israeli attacks, with 20 of that number being killed in Jabalia refugee camp.
Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza reported that it received the bodies of five additional dead and more than 40 wounded as a result of Israeli shelling of homes in the camp.
