Israeli forces destroy Rafah tunnel shafts, rocket launchers

Israeli aircraft strike and kill a three-man Hamas squad firing rockets at soldiers in the Rafah area

Israeli forces continued operations against Hamas in parts of Rafah and other areas of Gaza, the Israel Defence Forces said on Thursday. Soldiers in Rafah’s “Brazil” and “Shaburah” neighbourhoods located rocket launchers and tunnel shafts and killed several Hamas terrorists in face-to-face encounters. Israeli aircraft struck and killed a three-man Hamas squad firing rockets at soldiers in the Rafah area.

Palestinian mourners carry bodies wrapped in flags during a group funeral of people killed in an Israeli raid, in Jenin

In northern Gaza’s Jabalya area, soldiers raided Hamas buildings where arms were stored. Weapons seized included Kalashnikov rifles, explosives, grenades, sniper weapons, cartridges, and combat equipment.

In central Gaza, an Israeli airstrike eliminated a squad of six terrorists hiding inside a building, including one who infiltrated Israel on October 7. Another Hamas squad was killed in a separate airstrike after it was spotted entering a building. Hamas is trying to regroup in northern and central Gaza.

First aid from US pier in Gaza reaches starving locals

The UN World Food Program that it has handed out in Gaza in recent days a “limited number” of high-energy biscuits that arrived from a US-built pier, the first aid from the new humanitarian sea route to reach Palestinians.

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