The Israeli navy continued to conduct dozens of airstrikes within the Gaza Strip over the Jewish weekend from Friday night to Saturday night.
The air pressure carried out round 150 assaults on “terrorists and terror infrastructure” over the interval, the navy mentioned on Saturday.
Over the previous seven days, 300 targets have been attacked within the combat towards the Palestinian Islamist Hamas motion, and for the reason that resumption of hostilities on March 18, greater than 1,400 targets have been hit from the air, the navy mentioned additional.
The sealed-off coastal space is residence to over 2 million Palestinians.
In keeping with stories, floor troops destroyed a tunnel a number of hundred metres lengthy within the south close to Rafah, which was geared up with booby traps.
It was claimed that 40 Hamas fighters had been killed, and quite a few weapons and autos of the militia had been confiscated.
The claims couldn’t be independently verified.
The Israeli navy usually doesn’t present info on the variety of civilian casualties ensuing from its operations.
The Palestinian information company WAFA reported on Saturday afternoon, citing the Hamas-controlled well being authority, that 92 Palestinians had been killed and 219 others injured prior to now 24 hours because of the preventing.
The variety of Palestinians killed for the reason that outbreak of the Gaza Warfare on October 7, 2023, rose to 51,157. The figures don’t differentiate between fighters and civilians.
The set off for the conflict was the worst bloodbath in Israel’s historical past, carried out by Hamas and different extremist Palestinian organizations in southern Israel. On the Israeli facet, 1,200 individuals had been killed.
Smoke rises following Israeli assaults on the Tuffah neighborhood in japanese Gaza Metropolis. Omar Ashtawy/APA Photographs through ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
