9/8/2024–|Last update: 9/8/202405:40 PM (Makkah Time)
Fierce fighting has been ongoing since yesterday, Thursday, in the city of Khan Younis South Gaza Strip Simultaneously with violent aerial and artillery bombardment that left dozens of martyrs and wounded.
While I was installed Qassam Brigades The military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) ambushed the occupation forces in RafahI acknowledge Israeli occupation army 12 soldiers were injured in the Gaza battles during the last 24 hours.
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority announced that the Israeli army forces returned last night to Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip for the third time since the beginning of the war.
The army spokesman said Avichay AdraeeIn a statement on the X platform, “Forces from the 98th Division began an offensive operation in the Khan Yunis area,” and the army claimed to have received “intelligence information about the presence of terrorist structures in the area,” he said.
Israeli artillery launched intermittent shelling behind the schools of the new town of Abasan, east of Khan Yunis, to force the residents of that area to flee under Israeli fire and raids.
Since October 7, the Israeli army has carried out several devastating attacks on Khan Yunis, including areas it previously claimed were “safe” in the city, leaving hundreds of martyrs and wounded and widespread destruction.
In Rafah (far south), the Israeli army blew up residential buildings around Al-Firdaws School in the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood, west of the city.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army said it was continuing its operations in Natsarim axis forGaza City In the city of Rafah.
As for Gaza City, the southern areas witnessed Al-Zaytoun neighborhood South-east of the city, Israeli artillery shelling concentrated around the Ali bin Abi Talib Mosque.
Israeli military vehicles stationed around the Netzarim axis also fired machine guns at homes and agricultural lands north of Nuseirat campcoinciding with the warships firing their shells.
Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that Israeli helicopters and quadcopter drones are “firing intensively in the center and east of… Deir al-Balah (Center), with intensive reconnaissance aircraft flying over the city’s skies.
Resistance attacks
In contrast, it was announced Al-Quds Brigades The military wing of the movement Islamic Jihad It bombed the command and control headquarters of the occupation forces in the Netzarim axis with “107” missiles.
Sirens sounded in Ashkelon and Zikim, and the Israeli army confirmed that air defense systems intercepted a missile fired towards Gaza envelope.
In the city of Rafah, the Al-Qassam Brigades said that its fighters in the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood, west of the city, targeted a building where an Israeli force of 9 soldiers had taken refuge with a TPG anti-fortification shell, killing and wounding its members, and helicopters were seen landing to evacuate.
On Thursday evening, Al Jazeera obtained footage documenting the “Al-Farahin 2” ambush, which the Al-Qassam Brigades said it carried out last Monday, when it detonated an explosive device at an Israeli infantry force, killing and wounding its members.
Continuous massacres
In conjunction with the fierce battles, medical sources reported to Al Jazeera that 23 people were killed and dozens injured today, Friday, as a result of the ongoing Israeli bombardment of areas in the central and southern Gaza Strip.
Al Jazeera correspondent reported that 14 citizens, including women and children, were killed in an Israeli bombardment that targeted the areas of The recommendations And the dessert in Khan Yunis.
The correspondent added that 18 Palestinians were injured in an Israeli bombardment that targeted Block No. 4, east of H, at dawn today.Jabalia camp North of the Gaza Strip, confirming that among the wounded was a 4-month-old infant who was seriously injured as a result of the bombing.
On the other hand, the occupation forces continue their artillery shelling of Beit Lahia North of the sector.
The bodies of four martyrs who fell in an Israeli raid that targeted a house in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip were transported from Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah.
Israeli casualties
For his part, he announced Israeli army 12 soldiers were injured in the Gaza battles during the last 24 hours, including an officer from the Nahal Brigade who was seriously injured.
The Israeli army’s death toll since the beginning of the war has reached 689 officers and soldiers, while the number of wounded has risen to 4284 officers and soldiers since the beginning of the war. Meanwhile, 213 officers and soldiers from the occupation army are still receiving treatment in hospitals.
With American support, it is launched Israel Since October 7th, A devastating war on Gaza It left more than 131,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amidst massive destruction andfamine deadly
In disregard of the international community, Tel Aviv continues the war, ignoring the UN Security Council resolution to stop it immediately, and the International Court of Justice’s orders to take measures to prevent the acts of genocide To improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza.
