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Sat 27 Jul 2024 8:39 am - Jerusalem Time

Thousands of displaced Palestinians are sleeping on the streets, and dozens of dead and wounded in the Gaza Strip

Yesterday, the occupation army launched dozens of airstrikes and artillery shelling on different areas of the Gaza Strip, targeting residential complexes, shelters for the displaced, and several streets and squares. It also used "robots" to transport explosives to residential areas in the camps to blow them up, which resulted in the martyrdom of dozens and the injury of others, while thousands of displaced people cannot find their daily sustenance and are sleeping in the streets amidst an almost complete absence of relief aid due to the widespread destruction of the city of Rafah and its crossing, where the occupation forces are systematically adopting the "scorched earth" policy. It also made a limited incursion into the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood southwest of Gaza City, and continued to incursion into the city of Khan Yunis for the fifth consecutive day amidst violent air and artillery shelling, and committed new massacres against civilians while thousands of victims are still under the rubble and in the streets, and ambulance and rescue crews cannot reach them, so that the death toll of the ongoing Israeli war on the Strip on its 294th day rises to 39,175 dead, and 90,403 injuries. While fierce clashes continued on the axes of penetration, the resistance announced that it had bombarded the city of Ashkelon with a barrage of rockets, killing soldiers and destroying tanks during the battles. The Israeli army admitted that a soldier had been killed and 13 others injured in the Strip.

A number of citizens were killed and others were injured, at dawn and yesterday morning, in the continuous shelling by the occupation's air force and artillery on various parts of the Gaza Strip.
Two citizens were killed yesterday evening, when the occupation drones bombed a group of citizens in Rafah Governorate.
Medical sources said that paramedics transferred two martyrs after Israeli reconnaissance planes targeted a group of citizens at the Zaghloul junction, northwest of Rafah, to Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, south of the Strip.
A child was killed in an airstrike launched by the occupation forces on the Al-Baraksat area north of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, and a citizen was killed as a result of an Israeli drone strike near Al-Alam roundabout west of Rafah.
Two citizens were killed and others were injured yesterday in the occupation's bombing of the Al-Amal Hotel, west of Gaza City.
A citizen was also killed and three others were injured when the occupation's drone aircraft bombed a bicycle near Abu Hasira Street, west of Gaza City, and the occupation's artillery bombed the western areas of Gaza City.
The occupation air force launched raids on the Wadi Saber area in Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, which led to the death and injury of a number of citizens.
The occupation forces also blew up a residential block in the vicinity of the "Sheikh Nasser" neighborhood, and the occupation aircraft launched raids on areas east of the Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip, and bombed a house in "Block 12" in the camp.
Medical sources reported that the bodies of two dead and seven wounded were pulled out from under the rubble of a house belonging to the Al-Banna family in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in Gaza City, and they were transferred to the Arab Baptist Hospital in the city.
The occupation forces also bombed the house of the Yassin family in the Al-Nadim area in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, southeast of Gaza City.
A citizen was injured when the occupation artillery targeted the vicinity of Al-Iman Mosque in Al-Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City, and he was transferred to the Baptist Hospital.
The occupation forces also fired bullets near the Shuhada intersection in the city, amidst explosions in the area. The occupation forces' gunboats fired shells at the Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza.
Ambulance and rescue crews recovered the bodies of 6 dead from Salah al-Din Street in the southern Gaza Strip.
The occupation forces blew up buildings and facilities in the Al-Maghraqa area in the middle of the Gaza Strip.
The occupation air force bombed one of the towers of Ain Jalut in the middle of the Strip, and the vicinity of the Al-Awda schools, in conjunction with the occupation artillery shelling and gunfire.
The occupation air force launched a series of raids on the town of Bani Suhaila and the vicinity of the Rafah land crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, resulting in a number of injuries.
Ambulance and rescue crews recovered the bodies of three dead from Al-Farabi School in the town of Bani Suhaila.

On the ground, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that its fighters fired a SAM 7 missile at a helicopter in the sky of the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, south of Gaza City.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, announced that it had bombarded Ashkelon and settlements in the Gaza Strip with a barrage of rockets.
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority reported that 3 rockets were launched from the northern Gaza Strip, and said that air defenses intercepted one rocket and the rest fell in open areas, one of which caused fires.
For its part, Channel 13 reported that a fire broke out on Ashkelon beach after rockets were fired from Gaza.
Videos on social media platforms showed fires around Ashkelon and around the settlement of Netiv Ha'asara in the Gaza Strip.
In field developments, the resistance also engaged in clashes with the occupation forces after they had once again penetrated, in a limited manner, into the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, southwest of Gaza City.
The Al-Qassam Brigades announced via Telegram that it had killed and wounded members of an Israeli infantry force after detonating an anti-personnel explosive device in Tal al-Hawa.
On the same axis, Al-Qassam said that its fighters destroyed two Merkava 4 tanks surrounded by a number of Israeli soldiers with two “Shawaz” bombs and targeted a third tank with a 105 Al-Yassin shell, confirming that they also sniped an Israeli soldier and shelled the forces that penetrated the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood with mortar shells.
In Tal al-Hawa, the Al-Quds Brigades also announced that it had destroyed an Israeli military vehicle by detonating a "Thaqib" barrel bomb inside it. It also said that its fighters had clashed with a special Israeli force entrenched inside a school and had achieved direct hits on its ranks.
In eastern Khan Yunis, which has been witnessing a large-scale Israeli military operation for days, the Al-Quds Brigades announced that its fighters have been engaged in fierce clashes with the invading forces since the night before last, using machine guns and anti-tank shells.
It also announced that it had shelled with mortar shells the Israeli soldiers and vehicles stationed around the Rafah crossing gate and along the supply line in the Netzarim axis, which separates the central Gaza Strip from its north.
After acknowledging early yesterday that one of its soldiers was killed by an anti-tank missile in Rafah, the Israeli army announced that 13 soldiers were injured in the battles in the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours.

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Thousands of displaced Palestinians are sleeping on the streets, and dozens of dead and wounded in the Gaza Strip