FIGHTING RAGES
AFP correspondents reported Friday that Israeli strikes had hit the southern cities of Khan Younis and Rafah in addition to components of central Gaza.
The Israeli military mentioned its forces had “struck over 100 targets” throughout Gaza over the earlier 24 hours, together with navy positions, rocket launch websites and weapons depots.
The well being ministry within the Hamas-run territory mentioned it had recorded 162 deaths over the identical interval.
A fighter jet bombed the central space of Bureij in a single day, killing “an armed terrorist cell”, the military mentioned, after what it described as an tried assault on an Israeli tank.
And numerous Palestinian militants had been killed in clashes in Khan Younis, a metropolis that has turn into a serious battleground, the military mentioned.
Troops additionally uncovered tunnels beneath the Blue Seaside Resort in northern Gaza which had been used “by terrorists as shelter from the place they deliberate and executed assaults”, in line with the military.
AFPTV footage on Friday confirmed whole households, looking for security from the violence, arriving in Rafah in overloaded vehicles and on foot, pushing handcarts stacked with possessions.
“We fled Jabalia camp to Maan (in Khan Younis) and now we’re fleeing from Maan to Rafah,” mentioned one lady who declined to provide her identify. “(We now have) no water, no electrical energy and no meals.”
The Palestinian Crimson Crescent reported renewed shelling and drone fireplace within the space round Al-Amal hospital in Khan Younis after seven displaced folks, together with a five-day-old child, had been killed whereas sheltering within the compound.
“We face a humanitarian disaster because of the unfold of epidemics, with the hospital overcrowded with displaced folks,” mentioned a spokesman for Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in central Gaza.
