Israeli occupation forces advanced on Friday morning into the western areas of Beit Lahia city, north of the Gaza Strip, amidst gunfire and artillery shelling of the area. The city of Beit Lahia is almost completely rubble after sixteen straight months of Israeli bombardment. But after breaking the ceasefire agreement three days ago, Israeli forces returned to their relentless bombardment and now ground invasion to continue their stated objective of ethnically cleansing Gaza of its 2.4 million Palestinian residents.
Update: Five Palestinian children were killed and many Palestinians were injured in an Israeli bombing of a home in the Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza city.
Several Palestinians were injured an an Israeli bombing of Nusseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza.
Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that Israeli artillery advanced into the area, firing heavily at the city, which has suffered extensive destruction during the ongoing war of extermination. The director of the Indonesian Hospital said that 43 slain Palestinians and 82 wounded were received in the hospital following “a difficult night” in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli warplanes launched fire belts to cover their ground incursion west of Beit Lahia.
Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes bombed a house on Al-Sina’a Street in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City, according to witnesses.
Local sources reported that Israeli drones bombed the home of ABC News journalist Hussam al-Titi in Gaza City, killing him, his wife, and his daughter. The incessant targeting of journalists has been a feature of Israel’s sixteen month long assault on Gaza – over 200 have been killed, many of whom were directly targeted for assassination along with their families.
The Israeli occupation forces’ artillery fired heavy weapons at citizens’ homes in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah.
Medical sources said that 65 slain Palestinians have arrived at the European Hospital since dawn yesterday, Thursday, as a result of a series of airstrikes targeting civilian homes in the cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
She added that 95 slain Palestinians and 133 wounded had arrived at hospitals in the Gaza Strip since the early hours of yesterday morning, as a result of the massacres committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the people .
The occupation forces resumed their aggression on the Gaza Strip at dawn last Tuesday, after a hiatus of more than two months. This resulted in the killing of more than 591 citizens, the majority of whom were women and children, and the injury of hundreds of others.
The resumption of aggression against the Gaza Strip comes amid fears of a worsening humanitarian situation in the Strip, given the ongoing blockade and the cut-off of medical and humanitarian supplies.
Yesterday, the Israeli occupation army announced the launch of a ground operation in Rafah, the expansion of its military activities in the southern Gaza Strip, and the destruction of infrastructure.
After the Israeli army announced Wednesday evening the start of what it described as a “limited and precise” ground operation in the central and southern Gaza Strip, it announced earlier yesterday the start of a ground operation along the coastal axis in the Beit Lahia area in the northern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli occupation army also banned the movement of civilians across the Salah al-Din axis between the northern and southern Gaza Strip, after announcing on Wednesday its deployment along the Netzarim axis, which separates northern Gaza from the rest of the Strip.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli occupying forces have launched an aggression against the Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of more than 48,572 Palestinian citizens, the majority of whom were children and women, and the injury of 112,032 others, while a number of victims remain under the rubble.
