An explosion in Rafah in the South Gaza Strip killed and injured Israeli troops in the Golani Brigade, which exploded a building, according to Israeli websites.
There is currently a breakdown of the Israeli media for the incident on Thursday and there has not yet been an official comment from the government.
Rafah witnesses told Tel Aviv Tribune a great explosion, and Israeli helicopters trying to evacuate the wounded. There have been heavy fights in the region, they said.
Tareq Abu Azzoum of Tel Aviv Tribune, reports from Deir El-Balah, in the center of Gaza, that the army wing of Hamas, the Qassam brigades, says that it is engaged in “Ferocious breasts and confrontations with the Israeli occupation forces operating in the El Geneina district east of Rafah City”.
“There are more reports that a number of Israeli forces are trapped under the rubble of a building that had previously been faked by Hamas explosives in Rafah City. It is a tactic that was used by Hamas fighters to embusing Israeli land forces, “added Azzoum.
Later, Qassam’s brigades published this statement: “As part of the” Gates of Hell “operations, we exploded a powerful explosive device targeting a patrol of 7 soldiers near the Omar Ibn Al-Khattab mosque in several Israeli soldiers, east of Rafah.
Israeli forces have been confronted with difficulties in evacuating the dead and injured from the site due to the intensity of the fighting. Images broadcast by Israeli sources have shown that helicopters transported soldiers to hospitals.
Hani Mahmoud, from Tel Aviv Tribune, reporting from Gaza City, said: “The information available is talking about a group of Israeli soldiers – this is part of the occupation forces of the city of Rafah – and they were placing explosive cables in the context of the systematic and systematic demolition of the houses of Rafah City, where the vast majority of accumulations has been Rafah.
Mahmood also said that “eyewitnesses describe by seeing military helicopters moving along the limit. They patrolled the area several times before landing in the city of Rafah. They also reported machine guns and massive and heavy explosions that continued for a while before it became silent. ”
Meanwhile, Israeli air strikes killed at least 16 Palestinians through the Gaza Strip, after a deadly 24-hour period during which more than 100 people lost their lives, according to medical officials.
New strikes killed at least three people on Thursday in separate attacks in Deir El-Balah and in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the center of Gaza, Tel Aviv Tribune Arabic reported, citing medical sources. In Shujayea, east of Gaza City, Shelling killed another person and injured several others.
Further north, Israeli war planes have targeted a house in Beit Lahiya, killing new. The rescuers were still looking for a woman who would be trapped under the rubble.
Beit Lahiya’s attack site was “full of displaced people,” said Mahmoud earlier.
“The owner of this residential house and the displaced people he organized were killed inside this residential house,” he said. “Many others have been reported with serious injuries and burns and transferred to the Indonesian hospital, which is already exceeded.
“Only one family has just lost nine family members, including women and children, and more people are missing and trapped under the rubble.”
In Khan Younis, a girl was killed and four others injured after Israeli artillery struck tents housing families in the western part of the city.
The continuous assault on Gaza intervenes in the middle of the growing alarm that the total blocking of aid from Israel pushes the enclave in famine.
‘We no longer have food’
The blockade of Israel on Gaza – tightened on March 2 – pushed the population more deeply in the crisis, reducing aid and paralyzing humanitarian relief. Wednesday, World Central Kitchen (WCK), one of the main food suppliers in Gaza, announced that it had interrupted all cooking operations.
“We no longer have food to prepare,” said the help group, after exhausting flour and other basic supplies needed to manage its popular soups and mobile bakeries. WCK had provided at least 130,000 meals and 80,000 breads of bread per day.
“The trucks are ready in Egypt, Jordan and Israel,” said WCK founder Jose Andres. “But they cannot move without authorization. Humanitarian aid must be allowed to flow. “
The World Food Program had previously warned that its food stocks in Gaza were dry, ending a vital rescue buoy for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. The continuous blockade, according to the aid agencies, accelerated the start of the famine. Malnutrition is now widespread, humanitarian workers warning that they can no longer deal with or prevent hunger -related diseases.
Right’s defense groups have condemned the blockade as a “famine tactic” and argue that it can constitute a war crime.
Sean Carroll, president of Aera (American Near East Refugee Aid), told Tel Aviv Tribune that Gaza’s humanitarian crisis had reached a critical point, with aid deliveries. “We delivered nearly a million meals a week, and we only delivered a few thousand in the last 66 days,” he said, noting that the actions are exhausted.
“I think that governments must use each diplomatic lever, each political lever, each economic lever to convince all the parties that there must be a return to a semblance to provide humanitarian aid. We lose our humanity here, ”said Carroll.
The scenes in the few remaining aid centers are increasingly chaotic. Children, women and men are jostling to reduce rations while food distribution systems decompose. Bakeries closed and fuel shortages left the paralyzed water distribution networks.
Israel threatens Iran
Elsewhere, the tensions broke out beyond Gaza, with the Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz warning Iran that he could face the same fate as Hamas and Hezbollah. His remarks followed an attack on Houthi drones near Israel Ben Gurion airport.
“You are directly responsible,” Katz said on Thursday. “What we have done in Hezbollah in Beirut, Hamas in Gaza, we will also give you in Tehran.”
On Sunday, Yemen Houthi rebels launched a ballistic missile that struck near Ben Gurion international airport in Tel Aviv, saying that the attack was in favor of the Palestinians in Gaza.
The strike disrupted thefts and encouraged Israel to launch air strikes at Sanaa International Airport and power plants in areas controlled by Houthi, killing at least one and injuring dozens, according to Houthi reports.
Iran has denied supporting the Houthi assault. Despite Tuesday a ceasefire from the United States, mediated by Oman, guaranteeing “freedom of navigation” in the Red Sea, the spokesman for Houthi, Yahya Saree, said: “We will perform more military operations against the Israeli enemy”, targeting Israel and its ships.
