Israeli bombing kills Palestinian in Gaza’s Nuseirat
One person has been killed and several others wounded in an Israeli attack on a home belonging to the Abu Amuna family in the central Nuseirat refugee camp, according to the Wafa news agency.
The bombing came as Israeli forces continued to strike Jabalia, Beit Lahiya and Shujayea in the besieged north.
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are also reporting that Israeli soldiers are blowing up houses in the southern city of Rafah. Israeli troops have yet to withdraw from Rafah despite promising that the ground invasion that began on May 6 would be a “limited” operation.
Three killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza’s Shujayea
Our colleagues are reporting that an Israeli attack on a group of people in the Shujayea neighbourhood in Gaza City has killed at least three people.
‘Israeli attacks seek to make Shujayea uninhabitable’
There has been a significant change in the strategy of the Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip. The Shujayea neighbourhood in northern Gaza has been relentlessly targeted and hit by the Israeli military multiple times in the last year, including recurrent ground invasions. More than 80 percent of the population has been driven out of the area and internally displaced. There are only a few intact buildings in the area.
The patterns of the attacks these days suggest that the Israeli military is more interested in leaving a huge level of destruction in these buildings. They want to make the whole area uninhabitable by targeting residential buildings, public facilities and evacuation centres – whatever is left of them. The army seeks to destroy them in a way to prevent people from coming back to these areas.
Not only Shujayea, but many areas across Gaza are becoming largely uninhabitable.
At least 1,000 Palestinians killed in Israel’s 24-day siege of northern Gaza
The Israeli attacks have dropped in northern Gaza as of the early hours of this morning compared with the past few days. Part of the reason is the tactical withdrawal of the Israeli military.
To put things in context, the Israeli army operates aggressively for a few days in areas and then pulls back in a tactical move to come back later. This is largely noticed by the residents who went to inspect their homes and other buildings.
In the last 24 days of the army operation in northern Gaza, close to 1,000 people have been killed, according to health authorities. The majority of these victims were women and children – the same pattern we see across Gaza. There are also people missing and trapped under the rubble.
