Five Palestinians killed, others injured in Israeli raids on house north of Gaza Strip

GAZA CITY – Israeli occupation helicopters targeted Wednesday the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood southwest of Gaza City amid intense flight overhead and bombed a house in the Al-Jarn area north of the Gaza Strip killing five Palestinians and wounding others.

Israeli occupation forces opened fire on an aid truck in Khan Yunis, wounding its driver, near Al-Salam Hospital, while it was on its way to transport food for the Central World Kitchen Organisation.

Staff members confirmed that the organization coordinated with Israeli occupation forces and agreed to the passage of the truck, and despite that it was exposed to gunfire, noting that Israeli troops had targeted the Central World Kitchen Organization on April 2, 2024, killing seven of its employees.

In the center of the Gaza Strip, the occupation warplanes targeted the Bureij camp and their vehicles fired on the north of the camp, the Gaza Valley area and the northeast of the Nuseirat camp, while Israeli occupation army launched “Quadcopter” drones in the various areas of the Nuseirat camp, resulting in echoing screaming and crying sounds.

In the city of Khan Yunis, the occupation blew up residential buildings in the town of Al-Qarara, northeast of the city, and its vehicles fired heavily towards homes in the town of Bani Suhaila, amid artillery shelling, in addition to a raid that targeted a house in the Al-Satr area. 

The eastern region of Hamad Town was also subjected to missile strikes from before the occupation warplanes.

United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that 150,000 people were displaced from Khan Yunis Monday, after Israeli occupation issued orders to citizens in the eastern neighborhoods of the city to “evacuate immediately” and head towards the “humanitarian zone” created in Al-Mawasi, west of the city.

In Palestinian Rafah, Israeli occupation aircraft launched a raid on the northern area of ​​the city.

Israeli occupation forces have continued its aggression against the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, resulting in the death of 39,090 Palestinians, the majority of whom are women and children and the injury of 90,147 others, while thousands of victims remain under rubble and on the roads where ambulance and rescue crews cannot reach them.

For his part, Amjad al-Shawa, director of the Network of Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations reported that more than 200,000 Palestinians were displaced from various areas in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza, to the center of the Strip.

In a press statement, Shawa said there are many families who are still detained under the firing of bullets, shells and missiles, indicating that the occupation is working to narrow the area that it claims safe in southern Gaza.

He pointed out that the hazard of spread of epidemics and diseases, famine and malnutrition has grown more dangerous, especially that Israeli occupation troops are preventing the sick and wounded from leaving for treatment.