The Israeli ground offensive in Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood continued on Monday with Israel claiming that its forces had eliminated Palestinian fighters firing surface-to-air and antitank missiles, while Israeli troops also come under attack from mortar shells fired by Hamas and other groups.
In addition to the Shujayea area, evacuation orders have now been issued for Gaza City’s Sabra, Rimal, Tal al-Hawa, and Daraj neighbourhoods, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) report.
Palestinian fighters hit Israel forces with at least five improvised explosive devices (IEDs) as they advanced into Tal al-Hawa on Monday, with two of the IEDs comprising of “particularly lethal and advanced” explosively-formed penetrators, the ISW/CTP said.
The US-based defence think tanks note that the latest raid by Israeli forces on Tal al-Hawa follows after the neighbourhood was last “cleared” of Palestinian fighters in February.
Israel’s military also claimed that hundreds of houses have been rigged with explosive boobytraps throughout Rafah city in the south of Gaza, where fighting is ongoing and the destruction severe.
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