The Israeli occupation forces continued their raids on different areas of the Gaza Strip, resulting in dozens of martyrs and wounded, while the occupation army admitted that a soldier was seriously injured in clashes with the resistance.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that 13 Palestinians, including 3 children and 3 women, were killed in an Israeli bombardment that targeted two houses in the Musabah area, north of Rafah city.
In the Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, 6 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid on a house near the municipal park.
A medical source in Gaza City confirmed to the Anadolu Agency correspondent that 3 Palestinians, including two children, were killed and 9 others were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted a minibus in the vicinity of the Abbas intersection, west of Gaza City.
A Palestinian was killed and others were injured in the Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City as a result of Israeli shelling that targeted Al-Shaaf Street. A Palestinian was also killed in an Israeli raid on a car in the town of Beit Hanoun north of the Strip.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent also reported that at least one Palestinian was killed and others were injured in the targeting of a house belonging to the Abu Rabie family in Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip.
On the other hand, the Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – announced that members of an Israeli force were killed and wounded by targeting them with a “TPG” shell. Anti-fortification and anti-personnel missiles were fired after they took refuge in a house east of Al-Tannour neighborhood in Rafah city, and confirmed that a helicopter had landed to evacuate them.
Al-Qassam also announced that its fighters are engaged in fierce clashes against the occupation forces that have penetrated east of Al-Tannour neighborhood. They were able to target a Merkava tank with a “Yassin 105” shell.
She confirmed that a D9 military bulldozer was targeted with a 105 Al-Yassin shell in Rafah city.
The battalions announced that they had ambushed a convoy of occupation military vehicles west of the Kuwaiti hospital in the city.
Al-Qassam Brigades explained that its fighters blew up an armored personnel carrier with two “Shawaz” bombs, and targeted two other armored personnel carriers with an “Al-Yasin 105” shell and a “Tandem” shell.
In contrast, the Israeli occupation army admitted that a soldier from the 50th Battalion of the Nahal Brigade was seriously injured during a battle in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli tanks penetrated the northwestern area of Rafah with the support of aircraft, and heavy gunfire and explosions were heard in the eastern areas of the city, where the occupation forces blew up several houses.
With American support, Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 136,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.