While the occupation forces are pushing large numbers of their tanks into the east and center of Deir al-Balah, reaching al-Qarara, evidence indicates the occupation forces’ intention to separate the south of the Gaza Strip from its center. Medical sources reported yesterday that at least 25 citizens were killed as a result of the occupation forces’ shelling of various areas in the Gaza Strip, thus raising the death toll to 40,265 and the number of injuries to 93,144 since the beginning of the Israeli aggression. Meanwhile, a number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, and ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them. The occupation army continued its incursion east of Deir al-Balah to reach al-Rashid Street to dismember the besieged Strip. The Israeli incursion has forced thousands of citizens to flee toward the center of Deir al-Balah, which now includes more than a million displaced persons. The occupation army also ordered residents of large areas in Beit Lahia to forcibly evacuate in preparation for military operations. This coincided with the occupation forces’ shelling of several areas in Gaza City, targeting the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood, which witnessed Israeli incursions, with artillery, and blew up residential buildings in the al-Zeitoun neighborhood. Rafah, and fired on the tents of the displaced in the Al-Mawasi area, while Israeli planes launched violent raids on Khan Yunis, coinciding with artillery shelling of the city center, which resulted in dozens of martyrs and wounded. In contrast, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that it had killed and wounded Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City and in the city of Rafah, while the resistance announced the bombing of the "Gaza Envelope", Ashdod and Ashkelon with rocket barrages, while the Israeli army acknowledged the killing of a soldier and the wounding of 12 in battles in the center of the Strip.

In the details, at least 5 citizens were martyred and others were injured yesterday, in the occupation's bombing of the cities of Khan Yunis and Rafah.
In Khan Yunis city, two citizens were killed and others were injured, as a result of the occupation forces’ shelling of the Qizan Abu Rashwan area south of the city. At least one citizen was also killed and several others were injured as a result of the shelling of a house belonging to the Jadallah family in the Hawoz area in Khan Yunis camp.
In Rafah, two young men were martyred as a result of shelling that targeted the city, and they were transferred to Nasser Medical Complex, while the occupation blew up houses near Al-Awda Mosque in the center of the city.
Four citizens were also martyred yesterday evening when the occupation bombed gatherings of citizens in the northern Gaza Strip.
Medical sources said that paramedics transferred 3 martyrs from the Ezbet Abd Rabbo area east of Jabalia town, and a martyr from the Sultans area to Kamal Adwan Hospital in Jabalia camp, after the occupation forces targeted citizens in the two areas.
Health sources reported the death of a citizen as a result of Israeli artillery shelling targeting the Mufti area north of the Nuseirat camp, while a child was injured by occupation forces’ bullets in the city of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
In the same context, the Civil Defense reported that several people were injured in a bombing that targeted a house in the Al-Shimaa area in Beit Lahia.
The northern Bani Suhaila roundabout, east of Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip, witnessed artillery shelling that caused many injuries.
Medical sources at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis reported the night before last that the bodies of three martyrs, including a child, had arrived as a result of an airstrike launched by the occupation forces on a gathering of citizens in the town of Abasan, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
Local sources reported that a citizen was killed and others were injured when the occupation aircraft bombed a gathering of citizens east of the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
On the ground, the Al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of Hamas - announced yesterday that it had killed and wounded Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City and in the city of Rafah, while Israeli helicopters evacuated the wounded soldiers.
The brigades said - in a statement via the Telegram application - that it had engaged in fierce clashes with the occupation forces that had penetrated the south of the Zeitoun neighborhood (southeast of Gaza City).
She added that it caused deaths and injuries among the Israeli forces, and confirmed that ambulance planes had landed to evacuate them.
For its part, the Al-Quds Brigades - the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement - announced that it had engaged in fierce clashes with the occupation soldiers and vehicles that had penetrated south of the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, noting that it had targeted them with mortar shells.
The Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said that the soldier was killed as a result of an explosive device explosion in battles in the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City, noting that 12 soldiers were injured, including 4 in critical condition and 3 with moderate injuries, as a result of an explosive device explosion in the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City.
The same source added that the targeted reserve force was on a mission to expand the Netzarim axis by blowing up buildings in the Zeitoun neighborhood.
The Israeli Army Radio said that a force of reserve soldiers was combing buildings in the Zeitoun neighborhood before reaching a building that was found to be booby-trapped, causing the injuries.
Israeli sources announced that five military helicopters landed at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, and Beilinson and Ichilov Hospitals in Tel Aviv.
The resistance in Gaza also announced the bombing of the "Gaza Envelope", Ashdod and Ashkelon with rocket barrages.
Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper confirmed that sirens were activated after 3 weeks of calm in Sderot in the Gaza Strip, amid reports that two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Sderot.
The Sderot municipality said that air defenses intercepted a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip towards the city.