This evening, Sunday, the intensity of confrontations and battles that broke out between Palestinian factions and Israeli army forces escalated in various areas of the Gaza Strip, especially in the east of the city of Rafah and its crossing, and east of the Jabalia refugee camp, where the Israeli army blew up residential areas, while the “Al-Qassam Brigades” targeted a force. In particular, it barricaded itself east of the camp, and several tanks were in the same place, adding that they achieved direct hits.

Regarding the escalation in the intensity of the confrontations in Rafah, the “Al-Qassam Brigades” said that it targeted “enemy soldiers and vehicles penetrating into the Rafah land crossing with mortar shells.” It also stated that it was “crushing enemy crowds and vehicles east of the Rafah crossing with heavy-caliber mortar shells,” while the “Jerusalem Brigades” said that it had bombed “enemy soldiers and vehicles in the Al-Shoka neighborhood, east of Rafah, with a barrage of heavy-caliber mortar shells,” adding later that it had bombed in an operation Shared with "Al-Qassam", Israeli forces east of the city; in contrast; The Israeli army blew up buildings east of Rafah.

This comes as the Israeli army expanded its attacks today on various areas in the Gaza Strip. As the war on Gaza entered its 219th day, Israeli forces began an incursion into Jabalia, while clashes continued in Rafah as resistance factions confronted forces stationed in the east of the city. Israeli aircraft also expanded its raids on the north and center of the Gaza Strip, and the bombing targeted dozens of homes in the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.