Three new F-35I fighter jets land in Israel: Army
The Lockheed Martin aircraft landed at the Nevatim Air Force Base last night, according to a statement by the military. They will join the 140th Squadron, the statement added.
The Times of Israel said the jets are part of Israel’s initial order of 50 warplanes from the US company. Another 25 were ordered last year, according to the news outlet.
Israel is using high-powered bombs to maximise deaths in Gaza, experts say
Israel’s latest war on Gaza is killing civilians at four times the rate of previous conflicts it has waged in the Palestinian enclave.
Experts say this is likely not an accident, suggesting that Israeli forces are choosing to use the most powerful weapons available to deliberately maximise death and destruction.
Powerful blasts reported in Gaza’s southern Rafah as Israeli aircraft pound Gaza City in the north
Local Palestinian media report that Israeli forces have launched numerous attacks on Gaza in the early hours of this morning, including:
- There are reports of people across Gaza feeling the force of detonations in southern Gaza’s Rafah city, where the Israeli army is deployed and reportedly using explosives to destroy residential structures.
- Israeli military aircraft bombed a medical clinic in the east of Gaza City earlier this morning, and warplanes have more recently targeted other areas in the city.
- Air strikes and artillery shelling have hit Khan Younis in the south of the territory after an earlier attack on tents sheltering forcibly displaced people killed at least five in the al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis. Victims from the attack were reported to be a family of five: Ibrahim Khalil Abu Taima, his wife Hanadi, and their three children, ages four, six and eight.
- Israeli artillery has shelled the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
