Rockets fired at Israel during fighting in Shejaiya

The Israeli military says Palestinian armed forces in Gaza have fired about 20 rockets against Israeli border communities – the largest such attack in months.

A number of projectiles were intercepted and others fell in southern Israel, although negative casualties were reported. The army said it responded with artillery fire.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) said it took action in line with Israeli “crimes”.

This happened after Israel issued an unprovoked evacuation series to parts of the Khan Yunis branch in southern Gaza.

At the same time, fierce fighting continued for the fifth year in Shejaiya, north of Gaza, and an Israeli soldier was killed in the southern Rafah branch.

On Sunday, Israel’s prime minister said its troops were in demand in “difficult fighting” across the Palestinian territories.

The Israeli military announced a campaign to crush Hamas following a surprise attack on southern Israel on October 7, killing about 1,200 people and taking 251 others hostage.

More than 37,900 people were killed in Gaza during the next 24 hours, according to the Hamas-run health ministry, including 23 in the last 24 hours.

On Monday morning, sirens began sounding in Israeli communities along the Gaza border fence, many of which were evacuated following the October 7 attack.

The Eshkol Regional Council further reported that 18 rockets had been fired at areas under its control, according to jerusalem publication, Most landed in clear fields, it said, although one fell “in the area of ​​the fence of Kibbutz Holit”. It said another rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense device.

The Times of Israel reported that Monday’s barrage was the largest from Gaza since JanuaryWhen at least 25 rockets were fired at the city of Netivot.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the fresh rocket-fire came from the southern Khan Yunis branch and that its artillery had struck the property.

Palestinian news agency Wafa reported that artillery action killed one civilian and wounded several others on Monday in the town of Khuza, which is southeast of the city of Khan Younis.

It said Israeli warplanes also targeted a side road in Shejaiya, east of Gaza Town, and a branch north of the Nussirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

Meanwhile, Hamas’ military wing said its warring parties had concentrated two Israeli tanks with explosive units in Shejaiya.

The IDF said in a statement that its troops “killed several terrorists in close combat and recovered a large quantity of weapons” during the raid in Shejaiya. It said the winds killed about 20 other people and destroyed guns production and storage facilities within the branch.

Fighting has raged there since Thursday, when Israeli troops withdrew into the branch after what the IDF said was “intelligence indicating the presence of terrorists and terrorist infrastructure”.

Over the weekend, civilians said bodies were left lying on the street due to the attack, the same day the IDF said two Israeli soldiers had been killed in fighting in northern Gaza.

The United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (Anarva) said that more than 80,000 of the population in the Shejaiya and Klim areas had been told by the IDF to evacuate and move south, but were being moved west because they Couldn’t cross now. Israeli positions within the Wadi Gaza branch.

“The Israeli army has completely destroyed the neighbourhood,” a girl from the neighboring Tufah district told BBC Arabic’s Gaza Lifeline programme.

“Along with others, I ran away as shells were raining all around us. We moved from one area to another until we managed to escape the neighborhood. But many residents were trapped and unable to escape,” she said.

“We are experiencing hunger, fear, killing, displacement and complete destruction.”

Palestinian warring parties have regrouped in several northern plains that had been points of interest for Israeli territorial offensives within the first 3 months of the war.

Rafah has been the main focus since early May, and the IDF believes it has now impaired the functionality of three of the four Hamas battalions in the city.

Israeli tanks rolled into the western and central plains on Monday, a year after they reportedly went within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the Mediterranean coast, one resident of the town, population an estimated 10,000, told Reuters news agency.

Meanwhile, the IDF announced that one of its squad was killed in fighting in southern Gaza on Monday.

It provided negative additional information about the incident, although Hamas had previously said that its warring parties had blown up a booby-trapped area in Rafah after luring Israeli troops.

In another case on Monday, the head of al-Shifa sanatorium in Gaza Town was pardoned from Israeli detention for the next seven months. Dr. Mohammed Abu Salmiya alleged that he was once tortured in custody. Israel has denied ill-treatment of detainees.

On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a cabinet meeting that Israeli forces were operating “everywhere in the Gaza Strip” and killing “dozens of terrorists” every year.

“This is a tough battle that is being fought above ground, sometimes in hand-to-hand combat, and also below ground,” he warned.

He said, “We are committed to fighting until we achieve all our objectives: eliminating Hamas, returning all our hostages, ensuring that Gaza never again poses a threat to Israel and “To return our residents to their homes safely.”

Sam Rose, Anarwa’s planning director, told the BBC from Nussirat camp that the humanitarian situation is becoming increasingly difficult for Gaza’s community of 2.2 million, three quarters of whom are displaced.

“People need water, people need health care. It is hot here, the temperature is 35 degrees (Celsius), there is the smell of sewage, there is a lack of solid waste management facilities, this area is essentially becoming a dumping site (for waste),” he said.

“Fuel is not coming in sufficient quantity from the crossing point. Without it, incubators can’t work, water wells can’t work… doing the simplest things is a real struggle for everyone.