Israeli occupation forces continued their incursion into the Zeitoun neighborhood in the southern Gaza Strip for the 11th day, with air and artillery bombardment continuing on various parts of the neighborhood. The Civil Defense in Gaza said that Israeli forces have destroyed more than 450 homes and buildings in the Zeitoun neighborhood, which is described as the largest neighborhood in Gaza's Old City, over the past few days.
Palestinian sources reported early Thursday morning that Israeli occupation aircraft launched raids on Jabalia al-Balad, north of Gaza.
Regarding starvation, the Ministry of Health in Gaza stated that the total number of victims of starvation and malnutrition had risen to 269, including 112 children.
The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, confirmed that the number of children suffering from malnutrition in the Gaza Strip has tripled, while the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said that families in the Gaza Strip "are facing not just hunger, but death by starvation."
Fierce battles between the occupation and the resistance
For its part, the Palestinian resistance carried out an unprecedented operation, dispatching an entire infantry platoon to raid an Israeli occupation forces position east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip.
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The Qassam Brigades said the operation lasted for hours, resulting in the deaths of soldiers and the sniper fire of a tank commander. They also announced that one of the suicide bombers blew himself up among the Israeli rescue force.
The Israeli occupation army confirmed that Palestinian fighters emerged from tunnels in the area and said that one of its soldiers was seriously injured in the attack. Israeli sources, however, spoke of an intelligence failure to predict the attack and warned of the increasing audacity of Palestinian fighters and their escalating attempts to capture soldiers.
Hebrew media quoted officials in the Israeli army's Southern Command as saying, "The Qassam operation in Khan Yunis on Wednesday morning was preceded by a similar, previously unannounced attack two days earlier, in which eight militants attempted to capture Israeli soldiers in Beit Hanoun, north of the Gaza Strip."
The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, broadcast footage of its fighters targeting an Israeli army headquarters inside Al-Furqan School, southeast of the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, with mortar shells.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The Israeli genocide left 62,122 Palestinians dead, 156,758 injured, most of them children and women, more than 9,000 missing, hundreds of thousands displaced, and a famine that claimed the lives of 269 people, including 112 children.
