Residential buildings, public facilities and infrastructure were attacked across Gaza, as the UN accuses Israel of denying 82 of 91 attempts to deliver aid to the north.
The Israeli military has targeted residential buildings, public facilities and infrastructure throughout the Gaza Strip, killing at least nine members of a family in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Reporting from central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said on Thursday that Israeli ground forces were conducting a military operation seeking to expand the Netzarim Corridor – a 6.5km (4-mile) stretch established in the centre of the enclave by the Israeli military that divides northern and southern Gaza.
In the process, it conducts these attacks to raze what it says are remaining residential buildings … that the Israeli military claims are being used as observation points by Palestinian fighters,” Mahmoud reported, adding that witnesses said there were large numbers of civilians inside these homes.
In northern Gaza, Israeli jets carried out air raids, targeting the remaining residential buildings in the town of Beit Lahiya, killing at least four people, Mahmoud said.
At least four people died on Thursday morning in the south when Israeli drones attacked a group of Palestinian civilians near a camp for displaced people in the town of Abasing, east of the city of Khan Younis, according to the Wafa news agency.
