Occupation raids continue on northern Gaza (Reuters)
Fierce clashes continue between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation forces penetrating north and south of Gaza since dawn on Sunday, while Israeli fighter jets launched raids on the Shati camp, west of Gaza City. The occupation army also announced the killing of a soldier and the wounding of 3 other soldiers in the Gaza battles.
The reporter said that the occupation forces were targeted by heavy artillery shelling east of Jabalia, while Israeli gunboats bombed the coasts of the cities of Deir al-Balah, in the center of the Gaza Strip, and Khan Yunis, in its south.
Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that two Palestinians were martyred and injured in an Israeli bombing on two houses in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, confirming that three others were martyred when a civilian car was targeted in the Yarmouk Market in Gaza City.
The reporter added that two Palestinians were martyred and others were wounded by Israeli sniper bullets, in the Al-Katiba area, southwest of Gaza City, amid intense Israeli artillery shelling.
The correspondent explained that the Israeli occupation forces targeted the Al-Manara neighborhood in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, with artillery shelling, indicating that fierce clashes took place between the resistance and the occupation forces, coinciding with Israeli bombing east of Khan Yunis.
Resistance operations
Amid the continued Israeli bombing across the Gaza Strip, the Al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) - announced that it had bombed Israeli army crowds northeast of the Bureij refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, with heavy-caliber mortar shells.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement - said that it targeted with mortar shells a command and control center for the occupation army, in the vicinity of the Martyrs Mosque, south of Khan Yunis.
It added that it took control of an Israeli Evo Max 4T reconnaissance aircraft while it was carrying out intelligence missions in the central Gaza Strip.
It indicated that it bombed, with 107 missiles and mortar shells, concentrations of occupation soldiers and vehicles, north and east of the Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Fire breaks out east of Jabalia camp, north of Gaza, as a result of continuous bombing.
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Occupation losses
On the other hand, the Israeli army announced today that one of its soldiers was killed and three others, including an officer, were wounded in battles in the southern Gaza Strip last Friday, without revealing any other details about the battles that led to the soldier’s death and the injury of others.
Thus, the number of deaths of the occupation army since the beginning of the war on October 7 last year reached 531, including 195 deaths since the beginning of the ground incursion into the Gaza Strip on the 27th of the same month.
For its part, the Israeli Channel 12 quoted Israeli military sources as saying that the army changed its fighting style in Gaza and moved to focused targeting in its operations, as it put it.
The ongoing Israeli aggression against the besieged Gaza Strip for more than 3 months left 24,927 martyrs, 62,388 injured, and a humanitarian and health disaster. It also caused the displacement of about 1,900,000 people, meaning more than 85% of the Gaza Strip’s population.
Source: Al Jazeera + Anatolia