Palestinian resistance factions are waging fierce battles with the occupation forces in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip, where they announced the targeting of 6 tanks and trapping an Israeli force in two separate ambushes. On the other hand, dozens of citizens were martyred and wounded in Israeli bombing of northern, central and southern Gaza.
For its part, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), said that its fighters targeted Israeli Merkava 4 tanks with Al-Yassin 105 shells on Al-Ajarma Street in Jabalia Camp, north of Sector 3.
The brigades also said that they targeted 3 other tanks northeast of the city of Rafah with “Al-Yassin 105” shells and “shahwah charges.”
It also stated that its fighters lured a special force of the occupation army to Ain Nafaq in the Jabalia camp, and clashed with it from point zero, leaving its members dead and wounded.
The Al-Qassam Brigades announced the detonation of a tunnel opening, which had been booby-trapped in advance, in an Israeli foot force in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, leaving its members dead and wounded.
The brigades broadcast images that they said were of targeting an Israeli special force after it was lured into an elaborate ambush, and targeting rescue forces during their attempt to rescue them north of Beit Hanoun.
Al-Qassam said that hours later, in the same place, its fighters were able to snipe the three Israeli soldiers whose sniper scenes were shown two days earlier during the same operation.
For its part, the Israeli occupation army confirmed that 8 of its soldiers were injured in battles in the Gaza Strip during the last 24 hours.
He added that 634 officers and soldiers were killed in Gaza, and 555 were seriously injured since the beginning of the war on October 7.
Martyrs and wounded
On the other hand, the Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent said that the occupation targeted Hamdan Street in the Al-Faluga area in the Jabalia camp with air and artillery bombardment, continuing the artillery shelling on the Al-Fakhoura area west of the camp. The correspondent reported that 5 Palestinians were martyred and others were injured in a bombing that targeted a house in the area.
Earlier, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that Israeli vehicles stationed in the Netzarim axis opened heavy fire on the southern neighborhoods of Gaza City.
The reporter reported that dozens were martyred and injured in an Israeli bombing of the Al-Rashad residential building in the center of Gaza City. He also said that another Israeli bombing targeted a residential apartment for the Al-Ayoubi family on Al-Ma’am Street in the middle of the Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, leaving 5 martyrs and injured.
Hospitals are suffering
In a related development, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that the Israeli occupation forces advanced towards Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, and surrounded a number of its medical staff and the wounded.
The spokesman for Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital also told Tel Aviv Tribune that the only transformer supplying them with electricity had stopped, adding that no amount of fuel had arrived at the hospital, also pointing out that the bodies of a large number of martyrs had arrived at the hospital after the Deir al-Balah massacre.
The spokesman called for the urgent need to provide fuel to ensure the operation of the transformer that supplies the hospital with electricity.
Recovering the bodies of prisoners
For its part, the Israeli army announced the recovery of the bodies of three prisoners detained in the Gaza Strip: Israelis Hanan Yevlonka and Michael Nissenbaum, and tourist Oren Hernandez, who holds Mexican citizenship.
The occupation army said that the 98th Division continues its operations in Jabalia, targeting infrastructure it described as terrorist, eliminating dozens of fighters and finding quantities of weapons, as it put it.
He also indicated that his military operations in the Rafah area included raiding weapons sites and infrastructure belonging to the Hamas movement and destroying several tunnel openings, as he claimed.
In the central Gaza Strip, the occupation army confirmed that its members eliminated a group it described as terrorist, after targeting Israeli forces, adding that it destroyed the missile platform from which two missiles were launched towards the city of Ofakim in the Negev earlier.
An Israeli brigade was captured
On a related level, the Al-Qassam Brigades broadcast a clip raising questions about the fate of Major General Assaf Hamami, commander of the Southern Brigade in the Gaza Division, whose capture was confirmed on October 7, and said that he was injured during his detention.
Al-Qassam accused the occupation leaders of leaving their army leaders in captivity, warning that time was running out.
For his part, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said during a sea tour off the coast of Gaza that he would deploy more ground and air forces to maintain military pressure on Rafah and create what he called “conditions” for the recovery of Israeli prisoners detained in the Gaza Strip.
Fleeing from Rafah and hunger in Gaza
In another context, an official with the US Agency for International Development said that about 900,000 people fled Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, as a result of the Israeli military operation on the city.
The American official added that those fleeing Rafah were displaced to areas that host large numbers of displaced people and suffer from a lack of services and humanitarian aid.
For his part, United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters, “The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs warns that if aid does not begin entering Gaza in large quantities, despair and hunger will spread.”
“The closure of the Rafah crossing and the limited functionality of the Kerem Shalom crossing in the south have stifled the flow of life-saving supplies,” Dujarric noted.
