Six killed in Israeli raid on Gaza City’s al-Shanti area
The Israeli military is continuing its bombardment of Gaza City as it seeks to seize the urban hub and displace around one million Palestinians.
Sources in Gaza’s emergency services have told Al Jazeera that at least six people were killed and several were injured in an Israeli air raid on the al-Shanti area, in the northwestern part of Gaza City.
Smoke rises as a residential building collapses after an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City
Israeli army hits high-rise building in Gaza City
The Israeli army has claimed an air strike on Gaza City’s Al-Ruya Tower, after issuing a direct threat against it a short while ago.
It ordered residents of the building and the surrounding makeshift tents to flee for their lives ahead of the strike, a move it has repeated in other places several times this week.
Panic among Palestinians in Gaza City after high-rise hit
Amjad Shawa, the head of the Palestinian NGOs Network, has spoken to Al Jazeera from Gaza City, a few streets from Israel’s latest strike on a high-rise building sheltering displaced families.
“The situation is scary, there is panic among the people,” he said shortly after the Al-Ruya Tower was levelled. The strike followed an earlier attack on the Al Jazeera Club in central Gaza City, the site of another tented encampment.
“Today, hundreds of families lost their shelters,” Shawa said. “Israel [is] aiming to force Palestinians to the southern areas using these explosions, but everyone knows that there is no safe place in the south or any humanitarian zone.”
Video shows latest Israeli attack on Gaza City high-rise
As we just reported, the Israeli army has followed through on its threat to bomb the Al-Ruya building in Gaza City, as it continues its campaign of destruction on the remaining civilian infrastructure there.
Footage circulating on social media, which was verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit, shows the strike:
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Civil Defence says Israel destroys at least 50 buildings in Gaza City
At least 50 buildings in Gaza City have been razed to the ground by Israeli strikes and another 100 have been damaged, Gaza’s Civil Defence says in a statement.
It also estimated that more than 200 tents have been destroyed in Israeli raids on the city.
Palestinians inspect the site of a collapsed residential building, shortly after it was hit in an Israeli air strike, in Gaza City
