The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that it had targeted an Israeli Merkava 4 tank with an al-Yassin 105 shell in the Shaboura camp in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Al-Qassam also announced that an Israeli troop carrier was targeted with an “Al-Yassin 105” missile and that it caught fire in the Saudi neighborhood west of the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, noting that Israeli helicopters had landed at the site of the attack to evacuate the dead and wounded.
Al-Qassam also said that it had sniped an Israeli soldier in the vicinity of the Shubaili Mosque, east of the city of Rafah.
The Al-Qassam Brigades added that they bombed the Israeli army’s command room in the Netzarim axis with short-range “Rajum” missiles.
As for the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, it said that it bombed the Sufa military site east of the city of Rafah with mortar shells.
For its part, the Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades broadcast scenes of its control of an Israeli Heron aircraft in the central Gaza Strip.
Martyrs and wounded
On the other hand, Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that a martyr and a number of injured people, including 4 children, were killed in an Israeli occupation bombing that targeted a residential apartment in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent also reported that a number of displaced Palestinians who were living near Al-Khansaa School, east of Khan Yunis, were injured, which was subjected to violent Israeli bombing.
Displaced people spoke to Tel Aviv Tribune about the state of panic that resulted from the Israeli raids on the school.
18 ambulances stopped
In this context, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society announced, on Thursday, that 18 ambulances in the Gaza Strip had stopped working due to running out of fuel, which represents 36% of the capacity of the Society’s ambulance fleet.
The association said in a statement that it had not received its daily ration of gasoline through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA) for about 8 days, a ration that covered only 6% of the operational capacity of ambulances, due to the occupation preventing the entry of fuel into the Strip.
She pointed out that before the suspension of receiving the amount of gasoline allocated to the association, the amount received had decreased to only 3% of the daily need for ambulances.
This comes in light of the continuing deterioration of the humanitarian situation in all areas of the Gaza Strip following the continuation of the Israeli war for more than 8 months, and the halt of the entry of much humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip after Israel announced its control of the Rafah land crossing.
Since May 7, Israel has taken control of the Rafah land crossing in the south of the Gaza Strip, despite international warnings of the repercussions of this, which led to a worsening of the humanitarian situation due to the scarcity of fuel, medical supplies, and aid.
The Israeli army also put most of the hospitals in the Gaza Strip out of service after storming them and destroying large parts of them, which prompted the Ministry of Health to launch distress calls to save the medical system, which was no longer able to absorb the huge amount of wounded.
As of Thursday, the American-backed Israeli war since October 7 has left more than 124,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of dozens of children.