5/28/2024–|Last updated: 5/28/202412:19 AM (Mecca time)
The Israeli occupation army intensified its bombing of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of about 20 Palestinians, a day after the massacre it committed against the displaced, while the resistance is engaged in clashes with the forces penetrating into several areas of the Gaza Strip.
Since dawn today, the occupation forces have carried out heavy air and artillery bombardment on several areas in Rafah, especially the Tal al-Sultan neighborhood, west of the city, in conjunction with the incursion of Israeli vehicles into the area.
According to Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent, the number of martyrs as a result of the Israeli bombing on Rafah since dawn today has risen to 16 martyrs, including 7 who were martyred as a result of the bombing of a tent for displaced persons near the warehouses of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) west of the city.
7 others were martyred at dawn as a result of an Israeli raid that targeted a house north of the city of Rafah. The Red Crescent also announced the death of 3 and the injury of others as a result of the occupation targeting the Al-Abyad Housing area, west of Rafah.
In addition to the displaced people’s tents and homes, the Israeli bombing targeted part of the Indonesian field hospital building in Rafah, and activists also reported that the minarets of several mosques in the Al-Saudi and Tal Al-Sultan neighborhoods were bombed.
Yesterday, Monday, the occupation targeted the tents of displaced people west of the city, killing 45 people and wounding about 250 others, and the massacre sparked widespread international condemnation.
Press coverage: “A number of people were displaced from western Rafah to Khan Yunis as a result of the continuous bombing and the expansion of the military operation in Rafah.” pic.twitter.com/Zcuw4D5H0T
– Quds News Network (@qudsn) May 28, 2024
Siege and displacement
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said that medical staff, patients and wounded were trapped by the intense bombardment inside the Tal al-Sultan government clinic and the adjacent Indonesian field hospital, west of the city of Rafah.
The reporter also reported the displacement of dozens of families, and said that ambulances were facing great difficulties to provide relief to the injured trapped inside the bombed-hit homes in the western region of Rafah.
Activists posted pictures on social media showing the displacement of families from Rafah towards the nearby city of Khan Yunis.
According to the United Nations, the number of displaced people from Rafah rose to about one million people within 3 weeks.
The escalation of the occupation against civilians in Rafah comes after it was subjected in the past few days to strikes from the resistance, which included the launching of a large missile salvo towards Tel Aviv and areas close to it.
In the northern Gaza Strip, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that 6 were killed and others were injured – including a doctor – as a result of the occupation’s shooting today in the vicinity of Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia.
The Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent also reported that others were martyred and injured in an Israeli drone bombardment while displaced persons were trying to return to Fallujah, west of the Jabalia camp. At the same time, occupation artillery bombed west Beit Hanoun, according to Palestinian sources.
In Gaza City, the outskirts of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood were bombed, and Al-Jazeera’s correspondent reported that a number of members of the Al-Ghussein family were martyred and others were missing as a result of raids that targeted the family’s home in the Bani Amer area in the Al-Daraj neighborhood.
Near the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, the occupation forces targeted a civilian car near the Gaza beach, resulting in two wounded, according to eyewitnesses. Israeli artillery also bombed the east of the Maghazi camp.
Also in the Bureij camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, occupation aircraft bombed at dawn today a house belonging to the family of Issam Akl, killing him and his son, wounding a number of his family members, and completely destroying the house.
Gaza battles
In other field developments, clashes continue between the resistance and the occupation forces in Rafah in the south and Jabalia camp in the north, as well as near the Netzarim axis in the central Gaza Strip.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced – this morning – that it bombed the occupation forces in the Netzarim axis with a short-range missile salvo, and in a separate operation, its fighters targeted a house in which an Israeli force was barricaded in the Jabalia camp, which led to the force being directly injured, according to a statement by the Palestinian faction.
In the central Gaza Strip, sounds of clashes were heard this morning north of the Nuseirat camp, according to Palestinian sources.
The Al-Qassam Brigades said yesterday, Monday, that they bombed the Israeli forces advancing east of the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip with mortar shells.
Al-Qassam also announced that it targeted an Israeli special force holed up inside a house with a 107 missile east of the city of Jabalia, and bombed a crowd of occupation forces at the Civil Administration site east of Jabalia with mortar shells.
Meanwhile, the Al-Qassam Brigades published pictures of dead members of the Israeli 401st Armored Brigade, which stormed the Rafah crossing.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades targeted an Israeli force holed up in a house in the Jabalia camp.
For its part, the Israeli army announced yesterday, Monday, that 23 soldiers had been wounded in the Gaza battles, and said that it was continuing its operations in the heart of the Jabalia camp.
The Israeli army also deployed an additional brigade in the city of Rafah, which it penetrated 3 weeks ago.
