The continuous Israeli bombing continues on various areas of the Gaza Strip, leaving casualties, while the Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – targeted 8 Israeli soldiers and 6 Merkava tanks.
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip said that the occupation army committed five massacres during the last 24 hours, killing 53 martyrs and 357 injured.
This brings the total number of victims of the Israeli aggression since October 7 to 36,224, in addition to 81,777 injured.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that 19 Palestinians were martyred as a result of the continued Israeli raids and artillery shelling on the city of Rafah since dawn today. He also reported that 9 Palestinians were martyred and others injured when the Israeli occupation forces targeted a house for the Adwan family in Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip.
The correspondent reported that two Palestinians were martyred and injured in an Israeli raid that targeted a shelter center in the Jabalia camp, north of Gaza.
A number of injured people arrived at Al-Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, after the occupation forces opened fire on citizens who tried to return to their homes in the Jabalia camp.
In Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources reported that 12 Palestinians were killed as a result of the continuous Israeli bombing of the city since dawn today.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that there were martyrs and wounded in an Israeli bombing that targeted a gathering of Palestinians west of the city of Rafah.
The reporter added that columns of smoke were seen rising from various areas in Rafah, as a result of continuous Israeli raids and artillery shelling on the city.
Targeting paramedics
Meanwhile, ambulance teams were able to recover the bodies of two paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent who were martyred as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted an ambulance that was heading to recover the bodies of martyrs and transport injured people from the area west of the city of Rafah.
The bodies of the two martyred paramedics were transferred to Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that targeting the paramedics confirms the occupation’s intention to annihilate the health system in the Gaza Strip, noting that the occupation forces deliberately bombed the ambulance even though it was carrying the internationally protected emblem.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent also reported that 3 Palestinians were martyred as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted citizens while they were trying to recover bodies near the Zoroub roundabout, west of the city of Rafah.
The bodies of the martyrs and a number of the wounded arrived at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, in the central Gaza Strip.
Resistance attacks
In the same context, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced that its fighters in the city of Rafah targeted 8 Israeli soldiers with anti-personnel devices, killing and wounding them. This is east of Al-Tanour neighborhood and next to Al-Shouka municipality.
The Al-Qassam Brigades announced the targeting of 6 Israeli Merkava tanks with “Al-Yassin 105” shells in the Yabna camp in Rafah in the south, Gaza City and Beit Lahia in the north.
It added that its fighters targeted an Israeli force barricaded in a house with a TGB shell, killing and wounding its members in the middle of the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Al-Qassam Brigades also announced the targeting of the occupation forces penetrating behind Tal Zorob in the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, with mortar shells.
In Beit Lahia, north of the Gaza Strip, Al-Qassam fighters detonated an explosive device against occupation soldiers riding a tank, leaving them dead and wounded.
In the Gaza Strip, Al-Qassam announced the bombing of Kibbutz Nirim with a missile salvo.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement – announced that its fighters, west of the city of Rafah, bombed the occupation vehicles and soldiers penetrating the vicinity of Tal Zorob with regular “60-caliber” and heavy-caliber mortar shells.
They also, in conjunction with the Al-Qassam Brigades, targeted two Israeli military vehicles with Tandom and RPG shells in the vicinity of Al-Shoka School, east of Rafah.
The Al-Quds Brigades said that its fighters bombarded with mortar shells gatherings of occupation soldiers and vehicles in the vicinity of the Abed Jabr area in the Yabna camp, and the Al-Qaws site, south of the city of Rafah.
The Al-Quds Brigades showed pictures, which they said were of targeting and bombing of occupation officers and soldiers in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Al-Quds Brigades also broadcast pictures that it said were of the bombing of a gathering of occupation soldiers and vehicles penetrating the Al-Taqaddum axis, south of Rafah.
Occupation losses
On the other hand, the Israeli army announced that 14 soldiers were injured in the battles in the Gaza Strip during the last 24 hours.
He added that 3,657 officers and soldiers have been injured since the beginning of the war, 1,843 of whom were injured during the ground operation in Gaza.
This morning, the Israeli army announced the killing of a soldier during battles in the northern Gaza Strip, and said that its forces are continuing their military activity in some areas of the Jabalia camp, and in the center and south of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army also said that the three soldiers who were announced killed yesterday in Rafah were killed as a result of the explosion of a tunnel hole that was dug in a medical clinic, during their raid and combing of the area.
The army confirmed, in a statement, that the site was raided after the Israeli force was exposed to anti-tank missiles from inside an UNRWA school, he said.
The army added that its forces found weapons and military equipment, and openings leading to a network of tunnels between the school’s classrooms, according to the statement.
