Occupied Al-Quds: At least 89 Palestinians have been killed and 250 others wounded in Khan Younis in “one of the bloodiest” Israeli attacks in the past eights months.
Israeli forces are facing fierce resistance from the Palestinian fighters.
About 150,000 Khan Younis residents were forced to flee in one day, with residents saying they were barely given a couple of minutes to escape to areas with little or no infrastructure.
Fierce fighting are ongoing between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters in Khan Younis, while an Israeli attack on Jabalia al-Balad in northern Gaza has claimed the lives of at least five Palestinians.
Many Palestinians remain trapped by the fighting in Khan Younis, unable to flee after Israeli forces only gave them an hour to evacuate, according to a UN spokesman.
Some 150,000 people were forced to flee the area on Monday, he said, many of them without any belongings and into the al-Mawasi zone, which has little or no infrastructure.
The Israeli military has blown up the home of a slain Palestinian man during a raid in the Qalandiya refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. Israeli soldiers also shot and wounded at least two Palestinians during the operation.
The Israeli military has announced that a soldier has been “seriously injured” after “several missiles” were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel.
The Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV is also reporting fierce clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters in Khan Younis in conjunction with heavy aerial and artillery bombardment on the area.
Israeli snipers kill child in Khan Younis: Report
Palestinian media reports that a child was killed by Israeli snipers stationed behind Abu Nuwairah School, east of New Abasan in Khan Younis.
Meanwhile, Israeli artillery shelling has targeted the area near the Wadi Gaza Bridge from the direction of Salah al-Din Street, northeast of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, our colleagues on the ground report.
Khan Younis witnesses one of the bloodiest days yet, rights monitor says
Israel’s assault on Khan Younis that killed at least 89 Palestinians, most of whom are women and children, is one of its bloodiest attacks yet as “Israel’s crime of genocide continues to unfold”, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has said in a statement.
The monitor noted that every time there is talk that a truce will be reached, “the Israeli army purposefully increases the number of massacres and mass killings of Palestinian civilians”.
“This raises concerns that Israel is engaging in political blackmail by using the killing and displacement of civilians as a tool of pressure, as it has done repeatedly in recent weeks,” it said.
It noted that during the latest attack on Khan Younis, entire families were taken off the civil registry, including the Jabour and Harb families.
The monitor urged all nations to enact strong sanctions against Israel and end all political, financial and military support.
UK charity ‘outraged’ by Israel’s killing of Palestinian children
At least 24 children are among the more than 80 people that Israeli forces killed in a day in Khan Younis, according to Save the Children.
“We are outraged by the relentless and disproportionate violence against Palestinian children,” said Jeremy Stoner, the British charity’s regional director for the Middle East.
“We cannot allow this to become normalised. Those who have survived are living through inhumane conditions and extreme stress,” Stoner said.
According to the UN, the number of child casualties has increased by nearly 250 percent since the start of the war.
Israel kills 3 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank
Israeli forces shot dead a customs officer in the city of Tubas, northeast of Nablus, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.
A Palestinian man was shot and another run over as about 100 Israeli soldiers raided the Qalandiya refugee camp and bulldozed a home.
Earlier this morning, a 13-year-old boy died of his wounds after he was shot on July 11 by Israeli forces in Tulkarem, Wafa said in a separate report.
Since the start of the war in Gaza, mass arrests, raids and killings have become a nearly daily occurrence across the occupied West Bank.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates that Israel has killed at least 513 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since October 7.
At least 39,090 people have been killed and 90,147 injured in Israel’s war on Gaza. The death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is estimated at 1,139 with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
