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SvennoJ 20 hours ago
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Israeli military shells Khan Younis, killing at least 10

The Israeli military has shelled homes in the town of al-Fakhari, east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, killing at least 10 people, according to our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues.

Israeli fighter jets have carried out strikes in other locations in the north and south of the Strip, including:

  • The Abu Nasr family home in as-Sultan, west of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza, causing an unspecified number of deaths and injuries.
  • The Jabr family home near the Ammar bin Yasser Mosque in the Zahour neighbourhood, north of Rafah in southern Gaza. No casualties have been reported so far.


Israeli ‘ground incursion’ comes as mass forced evacuations restart, Gaza attacks intensify

The Israeli military says they’ve launched what they are calling a limited ground incursion into the Gaza Strip, trying to expand the buffer zone known as the Netzarim Corridor. It essentially cuts the Gaza Strip in half from north to south.

In the northern part of the territory, where more than one million were forcibly displaced throughout the 15 months of fighting, hundreds of thousands have since gone back to the areas where their homes are and pitched tents on the rubble and ruins of what was once their houses.

But the Israeli army has noted that there are going to be a lot of evacuations for the northern part of the territory – forcing Palestinians to leave once again – because of the relentless bombardment that is going to ensue.

Just a day ago, the Israeli prime minister noted that the same intensity of the strikes we saw in Gaza initially is going to be that intensity moving forward.

That means the Israeli army is going to operate at a much different level than the 15 months of fighting. That’s according to the very top, from the prime minister and the defence minister, saying that Israel is going to operate from land, air and sea.

Children among at least 10 killed in Israeli attack that flattened homes in southern Gaza

There is no let-up in terms of the Israeli attacks. In particular, in the past hour, we have seen a very brutal escalation of air strikes on the southern part of the Gaza Strip, in the city of Khan Younis and Rafah as well.

We know that 10 residential homes have been levelled to the ground, as part of the Israeli attacks on those two largest cities in the south.

The initial death toll that we have received from Gaza’s Health Ministry is that 10 Palestinians have been confirmed killed in this strike, including young children. We have seen very devastating videos from Palestinians caught in the middle of the ongoing Israeli attacks on Rafah city.

We can see now this is a clear surge in air strikes at such a very critical time when these houses are very densely populated with civilians.

Civil defence teams are trying until now to search for missing people who are still trapped underneath these destroyed homes and buildings.

We can also confirm that strikes continue elsewhere in the Strip, in particular Beit Lahiya town where Israeli artillery units alongside fighter jets have targeted a number of residential houses. We have confirmation from eye witnesses that a number of civilians have been killed and injured in one of the fresh barrage of attacks in the city there.