Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that 5 Palestinians were killed and others were injured as a result of an Israeli raid that targeted a house in the Al-Masha’la neighborhood, west of Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. He said that violent clashes with machine guns were taking place in the south of the Strip between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation army.
The correspondent also reported that the Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City was subjected to violent Israeli bombing.
The Gaza Civil Defense said that a large number of martyrs and wounded were killed in Israeli bombing on the Al-Sabra neighborhood, and we were unable to reach them.
Israeli fighters launched an air strike on the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, which has been besieged by the occupation forces for several days.
The correspondent reported that several camps in Gaza, including Al-Nuseirat, Al-Bureij and Al-Maghazi, were subjected to violent Israeli artillery shelling this morning.
10 massacres
The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that it counted 10 massacres committed by the Israeli occupation during the past 24 hours, and explained that more than 120 martyrs fell in those massacres.
The ministry said that the number of martyrs who fell as a result of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip since the seventh of last October rose to 23,469 Palestinians, while the number of those injured rose to 59,604 others.
Today, Friday, 10 Palestinians who were martyred in the Israeli occupation aircraft’s bombing of a house belonging to the Abu Senima family in the Al-Shoka area, east of Rafah Camp, were buried in Rafah Camp.
Resistance operations
The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – announced yesterday, Thursday, that its fighters, in conjunction with the Al-Quds Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement – were able to target an enemy command room with heavy-caliber mortar shells east of the city of Khan Yunis.
Al-Qassam explained that its fighters were able to target an Israeli foot force stationed in a house, killing and wounding its members.
Al-Qassam also announced the targeting of 8 Israeli vehicles, including two Merkava tanks, a bulldozer, and a troop carrier, and the destruction of one of them, in areas east of Khan Yunis and east of the Nuseirat camp.
Also in Khan Yunis, Al-Qassam fighters were able to target an Israeli special force holed up in a building, with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell, and clashed with it with machine guns, killing and wounding its members.
The Al-Quds Brigades announced the bombing of a gathering of occupation soldiers with mortar shells in the vicinity of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis.
The brigades said, “its fighters targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with a Tandom shell, in the Jabalia al-Balad area, north of the Gaza Strip.” They also took control of an Israeli Skylark drone in Jabalia.
For his part, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said that army forces in the cities of Al-Maghazi and Khan Yunis killed 18 militants during their military operations in the region.
The military spokesman confirmed that 300 tunnel openings were found in Khan Yunis, and that dozens of tunnels were also destroyed.