8/5/2024–|Last updated: 5/8/202408:30 AM (Mecca time)
The Israeli occupation intensified its air raids and artillery shelling on several areas in the Gaza Strip, leaving several martyrs and wounded, especially in the center of the Strip and Rafah, following the occupation’s control of the city crossing yesterday, Tuesday, as part of its ongoing war for the 215th day, while the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of the movement, announced The Islamic Resistance (Hamas) targeted the headquarters of the Gaza Division in the Ra’im settlement with missiles.
The Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent explained that the deaths and injuries were the result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a motorcycle near the Salah al-Din Gate, south of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, noting that the occupation forces continue their bombardment east of the city of Rafah.
The correspondent said that an Israeli air strike targeted the vicinity of the destroyed Gaza airport, east of the city of Rafah, indicating the outbreak of Violent clashes and artillery shelling in the Al-Salam neighborhood, east of the city, while… Israeli gunboats opened heavy fire towards the coast of the city itself.
The reporter also reported from medical sources in Gaza that a Palestinian woman was killed and others were injured in an Israeli raid that targeted a home for the Al-Qadiri family in the center of Rafah. The victims of the bombing were transferred to the Kuwaiti Hospital in the city, while the government media office in Gaza said that the occupation is targeting hospitals and schools with its aggression east of Rafah.
While Palestinian medical sources said that 7 were martyred and others were wounded in an Israeli raid on Gaza City, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that the occupation aircraft launched raids on Jabalia al-Balad in conjunction with artillery shelling on separate areas of the northern Gaza Strip, explaining that an Israeli raid targeted al-Nusair camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, and that Artillery shelling targeted the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
For its part, the Baptist Hospital confirmed the death of seven martyrs and a number of wounded as a result of Israeli warplanes targeting an apartment in a residential building for the Al-Louh family in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, noting that the seven dead were a man, his wife, and their five children.
The reporter added that 5 Palestinians were injured in an Israeli bombing that destroyed a house for the Rayan family in the second camp in Nuseirat. An entire residential square containing more than twenty houses was also destroyed, and the occupation army had asked the Rayan family to evacuate their house before it was bombed.
This comes as part of the occupation army’s war on Gaza since the seventh of last October, leaving tens of thousands of martyrs, wounded and missing amid a humanitarian situation described as catastrophic and a worsening famine looming over the besieged Strip.
Other developments
In other field developments, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced that they had targeted the headquarters of the Gaza Division in the Ra’im settlement with missiles. Al-Qassam also bombed Israeli military crowds at the Kerem Shalom military site and east of the city of Rafah with a “Rajum” missile system. In the Al-Shoka neighborhood, Al-Qassam announced that it had targeted a “Merkava” tank with an “Al-Yassin-105” missile. The Al-Qassam Brigades broadcast images that it said showed its fighters targeting the enemy’s command headquarters in the “Netzarim” axis, in conjunction with the Martyr Jihad Jibril Brigades.
In turn, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, announced the targeting of a number of eastern settlements with a missile attack.