On the 62nd day of the war on the Gaza Strip, Israeli occupation aircraft continued their violent bombardment on various areas of the Gaza Strip. Israeli artillery also targeted the eastern neighborhoods of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death and injury of dozens, while the Israeli army announced at dawn on Thursday the killing of two soldiers. .
17 Palestinians were martyred and others were injured when Israeli warplanes bombed homes in the Nuseirat and Al-Maghazi camps in the central Gaza Strip, and the city of Rafah in the south of the Strip.
Medical sources told Tel Aviv Tribune that among the martyrs were 3 children, following an Israeli raid that targeted a house in the Maghazi camp in the central Gaza Strip, while paramedics reported that a large number of victims were still trapped under the rubble.
The Israeli army also launched air strikes on a house in the Shaboura camp in the south of the Gaza Strip, killing 6 Palestinians and wounding others.
The Palestinian News Agency said that an Israeli warplane bombed a mosque in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, killing at least 12 Palestinians and wounding dozens, in addition to destroying a number of nearby homes.
The agency added that occupation aircraft and artillery bombed homes in the neighborhoods of Al-Zaytoun, Al-Shuja’iya, and Al-Sabra, east of Gaza, and residential buildings in the Al-Rimal neighborhood.
The agency reported that the areas south of Khan Yunis witnessed intense indiscriminate bombardment from aircraft and artillery during the land incursion of the occupation vehicles, resulting in dozens of martyrs and wounded, and ambulances were unable to arrive, given the seriousness of the situation due to the intensity of the bombing.
For his part, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that there were casualties in an Israeli bombing on the town of Bani Suhaila, east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, adding that dozens were martyred as a result of an Israeli bombing on the Al-Turk family’s home near Al-Nour Stadium in the Al-Sabra neighborhood, southeast of Gaza.
Israeli dead
The Israeli army announced the killing of two soldiers during the battles in the Gaza Strip, bringing the officially announced death toll of the Israeli army to 12 within 3 days.
This came after the Israeli army announced that its forces were launching an attack on the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, to target what it described as the centers of gravity of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), noting that its soldiers began maneuvering inside the city for the first time after its siege.
Witnesses in Khan Yunis reported that Israeli soldiers with armored vehicles and bulldozers arrived in the city center.
During the past two days, the Israeli army announced the killing of 10 of its members, including officers, and the army’s death toll rose to 413 since the beginning of the war on October 7th.
After Israel expanded its ground operation to the southern Gaza Strip following the end of the humanitarian truce last Friday, it asked the residents of the Strip to flee to the city of Rafah, located near the Egyptian border.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) had previously said that the number of displaced people in various parts of the Gaza Strip had reached about 1.9 million.