Israel vows to continue Gaza war

Israel has launched additional bombing operations on Gaza as it confirmed the continuation of the war, while more than 400 Palestinians have been killed since Friday.

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said on the “X” platform that “Israel will continue the war in Gaza until all the hostages are released and Hamas is eliminated,” stressing that Israel “will continue to inspect all humanitarian aid to Gaza for security reasons.”

The Ministry of Health in Gaza announced that 18 people were killed in an Israeli bombing of a house in the Nuseirat camp in the centre of the Strip and confirmed that the Israeli army continues its intense bombardment of various parts of the Strip.

Residents reported continued air strikes and shelling from Israeli tanks that penetrated into Jabalia al-Balad.

At least four people, including a girl, were killed in an Israeli air strike on a house in the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, and three people, a journalist for the Al-Aqsa TV channel affiliated with Hamas, and two of his relatives, were killed in an Israeli air strike on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp. .

The Palestinian and Israeli sides exchanged announcements that they had inflicted losses on each other. The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced the destruction of five Israeli tanks and the killing and wounding of all their personnel in northern Gaza, after the reuse of two unexploded rockets fired by Israel earlier.

It indicated that its fighters killed 4 Israeli soldiers in the Al-Qasaib neighbourhood in the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

It also announced that a tunnel opening was blown up by special Israeli force, leaving its members dead and wounded in the Juhr al-Dik area in the central Gaza Strip. It also announced that four Israeli “jeeps” were ambushed and all of its members were killed in central Gaza. It indicated the detonation of a field composed of anti-personnel devices and their armor, which led to the death of all members of the force, and a tank was also destroyed.

It had previously announced the killing and wounding of a large number of Israeli soldiers in clashes in the northern Gaza Strip. The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Jihad movement, said that it had monitored a limited incursion by Israeli vehicles on the edge east of Rafah and bombed it with mortar shells, injuring it directly. The Brigades also announced that a Merkava tank was targeted with a Tandom shell in North of the sector.

The Israeli army admitted on Saturday that five of its officers and soldiers had been killed since Friday in battles in Gaza. The army and the General Security Service (Shin Bet) announced in a joint statement that more than 200 members of the Hamas and Jihad movements were captured last week.

The army said that it fired deceptive shots in the Issa area in Gaza City to lure gunmen into a building that was the headquarters of the Hamas movement. The statement said that the ground forces and intelligence of the Israeli army directed a fighter plane to strike the building.