Twelve Palestinians were killed and others wounded in an Israeli airstrike overnight on a house in Gaza City in the north, health officials said, while plumes of smoke rose above the main southern city of Khan Younis shelled by Israeli tanks.
Hamas-affiliated Palestinian Press Agency SAFA reported fierce clashes between Hamas militants and Israeli forces in Khan Younis, while Israeli tank barrages were also reported near the Al-Bureij and Al-Maghazi refugee camps in central Gaza.
In Al-Nusseirat refugee camp, local journalist Doaa El-Baz showed footage of what had once been the street where she lived. “This whole neighbourhood is destroyed. Not a single house has been spared,” she said, standing before rubble.
Communications across the narrow coastal Gaza Strip remained severed for a fourth consecutive day, residents said. In a statement, the Israeli military said it had killed two Palestinian fighters in an airstrike on their vehicle as it was transporting weapons in Khan Younis, and also raided a Hamas command centre in that city and struck two arms caches.
