Palestinian medical sources reported that Sami Abu Darabi was killed and others (whose number was not specified) were injured in a bombing by an Israeli drone on a gathering of citizens in the Tel al-Dahab area of Beit Lahia town.
In the Abu Halawa area of Jabalia town in the northern Gaza Strip, two Palestinians, including a woman, were wounded by Israeli occupation army gunfire, according to medical sources, who described their injuries as moderate.
Eyewitnesses said that Israeli military vehicles stationed east of Jabalia town opened fire on two Palestinians, wounding them.
This comes in conjunction with violent air raids launched by the Israeli Air Force at dawn on Thursday, on various areas in the northern, central and southern Gaza Strip.
Witnesses reported that Israeli warplanes bombed areas east of Gaza City and in the central Gaza Strip, as well as the southern cities of Khan Younis and Rafah, explaining that the raids targeted areas under the control of the Israeli army.
Israeli artillery also shelled several areas east of Gaza City, coinciding with heavy gunfire from Israeli helicopters, according to witnesses.
Israeli artillery also shelled several areas east of Gaza City, coinciding with heavy gunfire from Israeli helicopters, while warships fired their machine guns heavily in the sea off Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip.
In the same context, witnesses reported hearing loud explosions resulting from the army's demolition of houses within its controlled areas east of the cities of Rafah and Khan Yunis.
The Israeli army announced on Wednesday that an officer was injured in an explosion of an explosive device that targeted an armored vehicle in Rafah, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Hamas of being responsible for the incident and vowed to retaliate.
Hamas responded in a statement that the explosion occurred in an area under the complete control of the army, and that there were no Palestinians in it, noting that it had previously warned of the remnants of war in that area and others, stressing that it was not responsible for them since the ceasefire agreement was implemented.
A ceasefire agreement has been in effect in Gaza since October 10, but Israel has violated some of its terms and delayed moving to the second phase, citing the continued captivity of the body of one of its soldiers in Gaza, even though Palestinian factions continue to search for him amidst the massive destruction left by the Israeli genocide.
The agreement was supposed to end the genocide perpetrated by Tel Aviv over two years starting on October 7, 2023, which resulted in about 71,000 martyrs and more than 171,000 wounded Palestinians, most of them children and women, but Israel continues to this day its violations and its suffocating siege on the sector.
