Four killed in Israeli strikes on al-Mawasi, Deir el-Balah
Israeli fighter jets bombed a tent housing displaced Palestinians in the al-Mawasi area of southern Gaza, killing a woman and her daughter, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report.
Two people have also been killed and several others injured following an Israeli air strike on a house in the city of Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.
Two killed in attack near Rafah
Palestinian ambulance crews have retrieved the bodies of two people killed in Gaza’s southern town of Khirbet al-Adas, near Rafah, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues on the ground report.
Meanwhile, the death toll from an earlier attack on a tent camp in the al-Mawasi area of central Gaza has risen to three, including two children, our colleagues also report.
Six medical staff injured, one critically, at Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital
The atmosphere has been very tense over the past 24 hours, especially in the north of the Strip. Beit Lahiya’s Kamal Adwan Hospital was squarely targeted overnight, especially its emergency gate where a group of people were hit. Once medics rushed to the hospital’s courtyard to reach the wounded, they were targeted by an Israeli quadcopter drone.
Witnesses said the drone dropped grenades, injuring six medical staff. One of them is described as in a critical condition. He’s now getting treatment inside the hospital. The facility’s water tanks and oxygen station also suffered significant damage.
We are also getting reports that many residential buildings in Gaza City were destroyed by Israeli fighter jets, including a building in the eastern Shujayea neighbourhood. There has also been a fresh barrage of strikes in central Gaza’s Bureij refugee camp, one of which completely flattened a building. Here in Deir el-Balah.
Israel claims to have killed five Hamas fighters in Gaza’s Beit Lahiya
Avichay Adraee, an Israeli military spokesman, says the army and the Shin Bet internal security service have killed five Hamas fighters in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya town.
He claimed the air attack that killed them came in the early hours of Thursday.
Hamas said on Thursday afternoon that the Israeli attacks in Beit Lahiya killed 112 people, including 64 children and women, in “four brutal massacres by bombing a residential neighbourhood around Kamal Adwan Hospital and other areas”.
Israel claims to have killed Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander
In its latest war update, Israel’s military says it has killed Khalid Abu Daqqa, described as a commander of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) armed group’s rocket unit. The military said it carried out a precise strike, killing Abu Daqqa on Wednesday while he was in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah city.
There were no PIJ announcements on the death of its member.
As we reported earlier, Israel’s latest attacks in central-southern Gaza have killed numerous civilians, including two children in a tent camp.
Israeli forces kill Palestinian fisherman off Gaza City coast
Israeli gunboats have fired at a fishing boat off the coast of Gaza City, killing one person and wounding another, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
Gaza’s fishermen, desperate to bring home a catch to stave off a crippling food shortage, say they regularly face attacks from Israel’s navy. In August, an Israeli drone attack killed seven fishermen as they were fishing in the territory’s coastal waters, according to a medical source cited by Anadolu news agency.
