13/9/2024–|Last update: 9/13/202409:19 AM (Makkah Time)
Israeli army tanks opened fire on displaced people in the Mawasi area of Rafah this morning, Friday, killing several people. The shelling continues on other areas of the Gaza Strip, causing more casualties and destruction.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that 5 Palestinians were killed and others were injured when Israeli tanks shelled a house in the Al Mawasi area on the Mediterranean coast, west of Rafah.
Palestinian sources also reported heavy gunfire from occupation vehicles towards the tents of the displaced in Mawasi Rafah.
This coincided with artillery shelling of the Shakoush area and its surroundings in northwest Rafah and heavy gunfire by Israeli helicopters in the city centre.
The Mawasi area extends 12 kilometres along the coast from west of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip to the Khan Yunis and Rafah governorates in the south.
The occupation claims that this area is safe, but it has repeatedly targeted it in recent weeks with horrific massacres, especially in Khan Yunis and Rafah.
Continuous bombing
During the past hours, Israeli raids continued, accompanied by artillery shelling on other parts of the Gaza Strip.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that two people were killed and more than 10 people were injured this morning as a result of the bombing of a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Palestinian sources reported heavy gunfire from Israeli vehicles north of the Nuseirat and Bureij camps.
At the same time, the occupation forces blew up residential buildings at dawn today near the Netzarim axis, which separates the central and southern Gaza Strip from its north.
Early today, Jabalia camp was bombed again, resulting in one martyr and injuries.
The northern areas of the Gaza Strip witnessed an escalation of shelling after the Israeli occupation army threatened a few days ago to carry out a new military operation under the pretext of responding to the Palestinian resistance launching rockets from there.
Medical sources told Tel Aviv Tribune that 40 Palestinians, most of them children and women, were killed as a result of the Israeli bombing of the Gaza Strip since dawn yesterday, Thursday.
The death toll from the aggression on Gaza exceeded 41,000 martyrs and 95,000 wounded, while Palestinian estimates indicate that there are about 10,000 martyrs under the rubble of destroyed buildings.
Rafah battles
On another level, and amid the debates between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his military leaders regarding the continuation of the war in Gaza and the presence in the Philadelphi Corridor on the Palestinian-Egyptian border, the Israeli occupation army said that it had completed the destruction of the Rafah Brigade in the southern Gaza Strip.
The occupation army claimed that it killed two thousand militants and destroyed 13 kilometers of tunnels in Rafah, and also spoke of destroying 80% of the tunnels in the Philadelphi axis.
Netanyahu and his military leaders have repeatedly claimed that they have destroyed most of the military battalions of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip, a claim that has been refuted by the resistance operations in the past few weeks, especially in the central and southern parts of the Strip.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement – announced that it had targeted an Israeli tank yesterday in the incursion area near the Return Roundabout in the center of Rafah city.
The Brigades broadcasted images that it said showed its fighters shelling the Israeli military site “Abu Matbaq” with mortar shells east of the central governorate in the Gaza Strip.