Israeli military says it has eliminated Hamas sniper, struck about 40 targets across Gaza
In its latest war update, the Israeli military has made several claims:
- Over the past few days, the Israeli military and security forces have targeted and eliminated a Hamas sniper in Tal as-Sultan in the Rafah area of the southern Gaza Strip.
- The Israeli military has killed several Palestinian fighters and “neutralised booby-traped structures” in Tal as-Sultan and the Shaboura areas in Rafah.
- Israeli troops have “deepened ground activity” in the “Morag Corridor” (that separates the Gaza Strip between Khan Younis and Rafah) and killed several Palestinian fighters above and below ground.
- In northern Gaza, the Israeli military has identified and killed several Palestinian fighters in a building.
- The Israeli Air Force has struck approximately 40 targets in the Gaza Strip over the past day.
UN says 36 Israeli attacks in Gaza killed ‘only women and children’
The United Nations has decried the toll of ongoing Israeli attacks across Gaza on civilians, finding that “a large percentage of fatalities are children and women”.
“Between 18 March and 9 April 2025, there were some 224 incidents of Israeli strikes on residential buildings and tents for internally displaced people,” the UN human rights office said, adding that “in some 36 strikes about which the UN Human Rights Office corroborated information, the fatalities recorded so far were only women and children.”
What’s happening in the occupied West Bank?
In tandem with the near-constant bombardment of Gaza, Israeli forces are continuing violent raids across the occupied West Bank and have clashed with Palestinian fighters.
Here are some of the reports coming in:
- Israeli forces have burned down a house in the Jenin refugee camp, 10 days after seizing control of the building and converting it into military barracks.
- Israeli forces have arrested the mother and brother of Abdullah Jalmana in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, in an attempt to pressure the wanted Palestinian man to surrender himself.
- The Jenin Brigades – an umbrella group of Palestinians fighting against the Israeli occupation – have claimed responsibility for an improvised explosive device (IED) attack on Israeli military vehicles at the entrance to the town of Silat al-Harithiya in Jenin.
- The Israeli military siege on the city of Jenin has now reached its 79th day, and local authorities estimate Israeli forces have demolished approximately 600 homes in the camp and rendered 3,200 uninhabitable.
- Israeli forces are reported to have arrested six Palestinians during raids in Tulkarem.
- There have been reported clashes between Palestinian fighters and Israeli forces in the Old City of Nablus.
