11/5/2024–|Last updated: 11/5/202405:56 AM (Mecca time)
Today, Saturday, the Israeli army carried out intensive bombardment on several areas in the Gaza Strip, causing many martyrs, and continued its operations east of Rafah, where the Palestinian resistance continues to confront it.
Early today, the occupation army launched air strikes and artillery shelling on Rafah in the south, and on towns and camps in the middle of the Gaza Strip, and neighborhoods in Gaza City, Jabalia, and Beit Lahia in the north.
At dawn, occupation aircraft bombed a house for the family of journalist Bahaa Okasha in the Al-Qasaib neighborhood in the Jabalia camp, north of the Gaza Strip, resulting in martyrs and wounded.
Journalist Bahaa Okasha, his wife and his son were martyred as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the Al-Qasaib neighborhood in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip tonight.#video #Gaza_War pic.twitter.com/7pTu4Ra8so
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Among the martyrs was journalist Bahaa Okasha, his wife, his child, and a number of his family members, and there are still a number of people missing under the rubble.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that other raids simultaneously targeted the Sheikh Zayed and Beit Lahia areas in the northern Gaza Strip as well.
Gaza neighborhoods
In Gaza City, Israeli raids on residential neighborhoods escalated, resulting in deaths and destruction of buildings.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that there were martyrs and wounded in an Israeli bombing of the Siam family home in the old town of Gaza in the center of the city.
In the Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of the city, Al-Jazeera’s correspondent reported that there were martyrs and others injured as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a residential square that included a number of homes.
The reporter had previously reported that two Palestinians were killed and injured in an Israeli bombing that targeted a house for the Abdel-Al family on Yarmouk Street in central Gaza City.
Yesterday, the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza was subjected to a violent Israeli warplane bombardment, resulting in martyrs and wounded, while an Al-Jazeera correspondent said that the occupation forces penetrating the neighborhood clashed with Palestinian resistance fighters.
In the center of the Gaza Strip, Palestinians, including children, were killed at dawn today as a result of an Israeli bombing on a house for the Al-Khatib family, east of the town of Al-Zawaida.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent also said that an Israeli bombing targeted at dawn a house for the Qandil family in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, resulting in injuries.
In the new camp in Nuseirat, also in the central region, 10 Palestinians were martyred yesterday as a result of Israeli raids that targeted a populated residential square.
Bombing and clashes in Rafah
In the southern Gaza Strip, an Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent reported that an Israeli artillery shelling targeted the center and east of the city of Rafah at dawn today.
The reporter also said that an Israeli raid targeted the Al-Geneina neighborhood, east of Rafah.
He added that the occupation forces dropped light bombs in the airspace of the northeastern region of Rafah in conjunction with artillery shelling of the center and east of the city.
Palestinian resistance factions confirmed that they have been engaged in fierce clashes with the occupation forces since their incursion into eastern Rafah last Monday.
The Israeli incursion into the eastern neighborhoods of Rafah caused the displacement of about 110,000 Palestinians, according to the United Nations.
The ongoing Israeli aggression against Gaza has also caused the death of about 35,000 people and the injury of more than 78,000 others.