Women, children killed in Israeli raid on Rafah as the day’s toll rises to 63
Israeli fighter jets have bombed the Shaat family home in the al-Nasr neighbourhood of Rafah in southern Gaza, killing a woman and four children, the Wafa news agency reports.
Medical sources in Gaza have also told Al Jazeera over the past hour that at least 63 people have been confirmed killed by Israeli attacks across the Strip since dawn on Tuesday. It is not known if this latest attack in Rafah is included in that tally.
As we have been reporting, an Israeli strike on the Shaheen family home in the Deir el-Balah area of central Gaza killed 13 people on Tuesday, many of them Palestinians displaced from other parts of the enclave.
Several killed, wounded as Israeli forces attack Gaza City
The Israeli military has bombed al-Ahly Club in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, west of Gaza City in northern Gaza, killing and injuring several people, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report.
Israeli attack on Gaza City school kills 7
Israeli forces have bombed the al-Farabi School in Gaza City, killing at least seven people, the Quds News Network and the Palestinian Information Center report. A “whole family” was killed in the attack on the school, those same outlets report, which was housing displaced Palestinians in northern Gaza.
Earlier, we reported the Israeli military had also bombed al-Ahly Club in the city’s Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood, killing and injuring an unspecified number of people.
Aftermath of Israeli strike on Gaza City’s al-Farabi school
Israeli military bombs central Gaza, killing at least 3
Israeli forces bombed the house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least three people from the same family, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report.
Six Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Nuseirat
As we’ve been reporting, Israeli forces have stepped up attacks on Gaza, killing at least 22 Palestinians since dawn today.
One of the overnight attacks included a bombing that killed at least six people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency. The victims included the head of the nursing department at al-Awda Hospital, the agency reported. At least seven others were also wounded in the attack.
Two Palestinians killed in Israeli attack on Rafah
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that the two victims were killed in an Israeli drone attack on Khirbet al-Adas area, north of the city of Rafah.
Israeli military claims to have hit Hamas targets in Khan Younis, Deir el-Balah
In its latest war update, Israel’s military claims to have struck 50 targets in Gaza over the past day.
The attacks, it said, targeted fighter cells, weapons depots and Hamas military sites. Several “precise” overnight strikes zeroed in on fighters in Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah, it said.
As we’ve been reporting, the latest strikes have killed numerous civilians. One overnight attack on a family home in Rafah’s Nassr neighbourhood killed a woman and four children.
On average, Israeli bombardment in Gaza is maiming 15 children a day, leaving them with lifelong disabilities, according to Save the Children.
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