Israeli tanks made a limited move forward into Rafah (Gaza) in the south on Wednesday while Israeli forces pounded locations in the center Gaza Strip, killing at least nine Palestinians, according to health officials.
Eight individuals were murdered, according to health officials, in an Israeli airstrike that occurred at midnight on a house in Al-Zawyda, in the central Gaza Strip. In Nuseirat camp, one of the eight refugee camps in the enclave, another strike claimed a man’s life. A day earlier, an Israeli airstrike on a school claimed the lives of twenty-three individuals.
According to locals, Israeli tanks also shelled the eastern parts of the Al-Bureij and Al-Maghazi camps in the middle of the enclave. A mosque was demolished by an airstrike, according to locals.
In the meantime, Israeli forces launched a raid in the northern part of Rafah before pulling away, a strategy they have previously employed in other locations before launching more extensive assaults. Since May, tanks have been in operation throughout the majority of the city, albeit not completely into the northern neighborhoods.
Two people were killed by an Israeli strike in Rafah on Wednesday, according to medics, although locals claimed the troops had destroyed dozens of homes.
Troops were “continuing precise, intelligence-based operational activity in the Rafah area,” according to the Israeli military. It said that a terrorist cell and a launcher that had been used to fire at soldiers had been destroyed.
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