Israel bombs Al Jazeera correspondent’s home in Gaza
Al Jazeera Arabic is reporting that Israeli forces have attacked the home of its correspondent Rami Abu Taima in southern Khan Younis, wounding several members of his family.
At least 10 killed in Israeli attacks on Jabalia, Bureij
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that Israel’s predawn attacks on northern Jabalia and the central Bureij camp have killed at least 10 people.
A breakdown of the toll is not immediately available. Earlier, Palestinian media outlets reported that at least seven people, most of them children, were killed when Israeli forces bombed the home of the Taroush family in Jabalia.
Death toll from Jabalia, Bureij attacks rises to 17
Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondents on the ground say the death toll from the assaults has now risen to 17.
They also say Israeli forces are blowing up residential buildings in the Jabalia refugee camp and the nearby town of Beit Lahiya. The two areas are in the North Gaza governorate, which Israeli forces have been besieging since October 6.
The military says the campaign is aimed at preventing Hamas from regrouping, but critics say it wants to empty the north of the enclave of its residents to create a “buffer zone”.
Fighters in Gaza’s Jabalia back to ‘regular tempo’ of attacks against Israeli forces: Monitors
Two US-based defence think tanks monitoring the war in Gaza say that Palestinian fighters launched two small-scale attacks against Israeli forces on Tuesday, a day after launching a large “multi-wave” attack.
The attack on Monday, which involved units of between six and 30 Palestinian fighters, was “noteworthy given it was significantly larger than most militia operations in the Gaza Strip in recent months,” the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) said.
Attacks on Tuesday, while smaller, involved Palestinian fighters using “explosively formed penetrators, rocket-propelled grenades and other high-powered improvised explosive devices (IEDs)”, the ISW/CTP said in their latest joint report.
The report of Palestinian fighters returning to “their regular tempo and method of attacks” comes after more than two months of intense Israeli ground operations, air strikes, artillery shelling and punishing siege of large parts of northern Gaza, including Jabalia.
Palestinian fighters also launched two rockets into southern Israel late on Tuesday, the ISW/CTP said.
Israeli army attacks vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital
The Israeli army has bombed the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza with warplanes and artillery, our correspondent on the ground reports.
Last week, Israeli forces raided Kamal Adwan Hospital, forcibly evacuating people from the facility and arresting the hospital’s director, Dr Hussam Abu Safia, whose whereabouts remain unknown.
Throughout their assault on Gaza, Israeli forces have routinely besieged and attacked medical facilities – housing both patients and displaced families.
Kamal Adwan is “suffering from a stifling siege, as the operating and surgery departments, laboratory, maintenance, ambulance units and warehouses have been completely burned”, the Health Ministry said.