Clashes renewed between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation forces in Jabalia Camp (north) and Rafah (south) of the Gaza Strip, coinciding with violent air and artillery bombardment. The Israeli bombardment left dozens martyred and injured, while Tel Aviv acknowledged the killing of 5 of its soldiers in Jabalia.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that a number of martyrs and wounded arrived at the Kuwait Specialized Hospital in Rafah, as a result of the continuous air and artillery bombardment targeting several areas east and center of the city.
The reporter added that an Israeli bombing targeted a house east of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, leaving 4 martyrs and a number of injured.
In the northern Gaza Strip, an Tel Aviv Tribune correspondent reported that two paramedics were injured when an Israeli drone bombed an ambulance belonging to Al Awda Hospital in Jabalia Camp, and that 3 people were martyred, including a child, and a number of others were injured in a bombing that targeted a house on Al-Sahaba Street in Gaza City.
He added that the Israeli bombing destroyed the Jabalia refugee camp’s central market and led to the burning of a number of houses in the camp.
He also reported that 3 were killed and others wounded in a bombing on a building in the Sidra area in the Daraj neighborhood, east of Gaza City.
The neighborhoods south of Gaza City, Al-Zaytoun, Al-Sabra, and Tal Al-Hawa, witnessed continuous artillery shelling, which led to martyrs and wounded.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that journalist Muhammad Jahjouh, his wife, mother, and children were martyred as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted his family’s home in the Abu Iskandar area in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, north of Gaza City.
According to data issued by the government media office in Gaza, the number of martyred journalists in the Gaza Strip has risen to 145 since the 7th of last October.
Urgent | Reporter #Tel Aviv TribuneJournalist Muhammad Jahjouh and a number of his family members were martyred as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted their home in the northern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/rKitSlqfuR
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Israeli losses
On the other hand, the Israeli occupation army announced that 5 soldiers were killed and 16 others were injured in the bombing of a building in the Jabalia area yesterday, Wednesday.
The army said that the dead and wounded soldiers were accidentally killed in an exchange of fire between two Israeli forces.
This brings the number of Israeli soldiers killed since October 7 to 627 officers and soldiers, including 289 who were killed since the start of the ground operation by the occupation forces in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli sources had previously confirmed the killing and wounding of about 20 Israeli soldiers who were inside a building that was blown up in Jabalia in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli accounts published pictures of a military helicopter landing at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem to transport injured soldiers.
Resistance attacks
The Al-Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) – announced the killing of 12 Israeli soldiers in a compound ambush, and broadcast pictures of its fighters targeting Israeli special forces as they entered a house east of the Jabalia camp.
The Al-Qassam Brigades announced the destruction of an Israeli troop carrier with an Al-Yassin 105 shell in Jabalia camp, leaving its crew dead and wounded.
In Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, Al-Qassam published clips of its fighters targeting Israeli occupation soldiers and vehicles on the fighting fronts east of the city.
The Al-Quds Brigades published scenes of an Israeli bulldozer being targeted during the battles in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza.
Maariv newspaper reported that the Israeli army is preparing to deepen and expand the military operation in Rafah.
Maariv added that the 89th Commando Brigade in the Israeli army was entered into combat in Rafah last night.
Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip since October 7, leaving tens of thousands of victims, most of them children and women, a humanitarian catastrophe and massive destruction of infrastructure, which led to Israel being brought before the International Court of Justice on charges of committing “genocide.”
