On Monday morning, the Israeli army continued its raids on several areas in BGaza stripleaving a number of martyrs, wounded and missing, as part of its aggression against the Gaza Strip on its 59th day. The occupation army also acknowledged today the killing of 3 soldiers and the serious wounding of a fourth in the battles in the northern and central Gaza Strip.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that the Israeli occupation army launched heavy artillery shelling, coinciding with clashes in the Al-Zaytoun and Al-Shuja’iya neighborhoods, east of Gaza City. The reporter also said that at least one person was killed and others were injured as a result of an Israeli bombing on a house on Al-Nafaq Street in Gaza City.
Before that, the reporter reported that 3 members of the Civil Defense were martyred and others were injured as a result of an Israeli bombing on eastern Gaza City, and 3 martyrs and a number of missing persons as a result of an Israeli raid that targeted a house in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, and two martyrs and wounded in the town of Al-Qarara, and the death of a woman and the injury of 8 other people as a result of Israeli bombing. A house was targeted in the center of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
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Al Jazeera’s correspondent explained the martyrdom of a child in an Israeli raid that targeted a house in the Nuseirat camp in the middle of the Gaza Strip, pointing out that the Israeli bombing targeted Palestine Square and the vicinity of the Baptist Hospital in the center of Gaza City, in addition to the fall of martyrs and wounded as the occupation bombed an inhabited house in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.
The reporter also mentioned the martyrdom of 5 citizens in the Israeli occupation aircraft’s bombing of a mosque in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza, noting that another bombing targeted a house on Al-Nafaq Street in the city.
During the past 24 hours, the Israeli occupation committed several massacres in all governorates of the besieged Strip through violent bombing of citizens’ homes without warning, in addition to continuing to target hospitals, including martyrs and wounded in a bombing that targeted – on Sunday evening – the gate of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian News Agency “Wafa” reported that targeting the hospital gate caused at least 4 martyrs and 9 wounded, in addition to a state of panic among patients and displaced people in the hospital and its surroundings, where there are more than 10,000 displaced people who had sought refuge in the hospital for safety.
The Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Munir Al-Bursh, also confirmed – in an interview with Al Jazeera – that those inside Kamal Adwan Hospital were trapped after snipers deployed on the roofs of buildings adjacent to the hospital.
The Ministry of Health in the besieged sector announced yesterday, Sunday, that the number of victims of the Israeli aggression since its beginning had risen to 15,523 martyrs, and the number of injured had risen to 41,316 people with varying injuries.
Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra explained that only 316 dead and 664 wounded were recovered from under the rubble and transferred to hospitals during the past hours, but many others are still under the rubble, with the death toll continuing to rise since the end of the temporary truce.
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This comes with the occupation army admitting on Monday that three of its soldiers were killed in battles in the northern Gaza Strip, noting that a fourth was seriously injured as a result of those battles following its announcement of what it called the expansion of its ground operation against the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) throughout the Gaza Strip. “, indicating that it has launched about 10,000 air strikes since the beginning of the war, according to army spokesman Daniel Hagari yesterday evening, Sunday.
The occupation also issued orders to displace more residents and pledged to strike the southern Gaza Strip with the same force that led to the destruction of large parts of the northern Gaza Strip.
On the other hand, a source said Ezz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades Al Jazeera told Al Jazeera yesterday, Sunday, that 70% of the occupation forces withdrew from the north, indicating that the Palestinian resistance factions clashed with the occupation forces on several fronts.
The source explained that the Israeli ground operation is currently concentrated in the south of the Gaza Strip, coinciding with limited maneuver operations in the north, stressing that 70% of the Israeli forces withdrew from the northern Gaza Strip as a result of the failure of their operations and because of resistance strikes.
He added that the withdrawal of the occupation forces from the northern Gaza Strip began with Temporary humanitarian truce Which ended last Friday, and he continued that the withdrawal accelerated with the resistance strikes in the last two days.
Yesterday, Sunday, the Al-Qassam Brigades announced that it had killed a number of Israeli soldiers during the clashes, in addition to firing rocket salvoes, noting that it had targeted occupation army tanks in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell, destroying 3, in addition to blowing up the opening of one of the tunnels with a group of Israeli soldiers east of the Gaza Strip. Beit Lahia after it was booby-trapped.
As reported Al-Quds Brigades military section For Islamic Jihad It engaged in fierce clashes with Israeli soldiers in the Sheikh Radwan axis, and announced that it bombed Beersheba, Sufa, Holit, Sderot, and the settlements of Sufa, Nir Ishaq, Kfar Saad, and Kfar Izza with missile salvos, in addition to bombing the occupation bases in Ra’im and Miftahim.
Regarding Khan Yunis, residents said that the occupation army dropped leaflets asking them to leave the area as a “dangerous combat zone” and ordered them to move to the border city of Rafah or to a coastal area in the southwest of Gaza.
Halima Abdel Rahman, a widow and mother of four children, said she stopped obeying those orders. She fled her home last October to an area outside Khan Yunis, where she lives with relatives. She said: “The occupation orders you to move to this area, and then bombs it.” She told The Associated Press by phone: “The reality is that there is no safe place in Gaza. They kill people in the north. They kill people in the south.”