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Israel continues its offensive in Khan Yunis and bombards Rafah again

The Israeli army has assured this Sunday that its offensive by land, sea and air is focused on Khan Yunis (southern Gaza), while Gazan medical sources have condemned the bombing of a daycare center in Rafah (also in the south) in which There have been two deaths. , According to a military statement, forces in the western area of ​​Khan Yunis claimed to have killed several militants, and carried out selective raids on infrastructure controlled by Hamas.

The text details that troops found “a compound used by the commander of Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade, from where he directed operations, and found AK-47 rifles, ammunition, military equipment and technical assets.” were located.” At least four other militants, including “an Islamic Jihad sniper”, have also been killed in Khan Yunis in artillery and air strikes, which were repeated in the north of the strip, killing “seven Hamas militants”.

Local medical sources, quoted by Wafa news agency, today reported a nighttime bombardment of a daycare center in the city of Rafah, the southernmost area of ​​the Palestinian enclave, where dozens of displaced people from the north were taking refuge. At least two children died and dozens of people were injured in the attack.

More than half of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents are now homeless in Rafah. It is the last city at the southern end of the enclave and on the border with Egypt, and has become a buffer for more than a million people who fled to the north to protect themselves from Israeli attacks.

The attack on the town in the south of the Strip came after Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant announced on Thursday that his troops were to move towards Rafah in the coming days after almost reaching the objectives set in Khan Yunis. The focus has been on ground operations for weeks, and where Hamas infrastructure has already been destroyed. Both Friday and yesterday, Saturday, Israeli forces bombed several points of the city, where thousands of people have come from Khan Yunis in recent days, carrying their belongings in their arms and dragging children in carts.

Medical sources also said there were dozens of deaths after Israeli warplanes bombed a residential area in Deir al-Balah in the center of the strip.

In three days, four months have passed since the war in Gaza, where, despite more than 27,200 deaths and more than 66,450 wounded, Israel has not yet managed to isolate the Hamas Islamists from their most important ones, nor in the north. Has been able to end the fight. According to Gaza Health Ministry data, most of them were children and women. (agencies)