Gaza
At least 23 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raids on various areas in the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian sources. The sources said that Israeli forces launched air and artillery strikes on areas across the strip from overnight to this morning, source reported.
Israeli aircraft targeted a residential house west of the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing six people and wounding six others, all of whom were taken to hospitals, according to the sources.
They added that the jets bombed another house for displaced people in the town of al-Zawaida in the middle of the strip, killing 10 people. In addition, Israel’s planes attacked homes and agricultural lands in the Al-Zaytoun neighbourhood, south of Gaza City, inflicting two fatalities, said the sources, adding its artillery fire wounded 10 others in the Tal Al-Hawa neighbourhood in the southwest of the city.
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli forces bombed the eastern outskirts of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, causing material damage. Meanwhile, in the southern Gazan city of Rafah, five Palestinians were killed and seven others injured due to Israeli airstrikes and artillery bombardment.
Palestinian security sources told sources that the Israeli army is advancing west in Rafah along the Philadelphia Corridor near the border with Egypt.
Meanwhile, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced the suspension of food distributions in Rafah due to the lack of supplies and security.
