Israel continues ground, aerial, naval attacks across Gaza as onslaught enters day 279

By Ahmed Asmar

ANKARA (AA) - The Israeli army continued to strike areas across the Gaza Strip involving ground, aerial, and naval attacks as its deadly onslaught enters day 279, several days into its ninth month, local media reported on Thursday.

Official Palestinian news agency Wafa said an Israeli raid hit a home in the al-Maghazi refugee camp and another in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

In Gaza City, Israeli army drones opened fire towards homes in the Al-Sabra neighborhood in the southern part of the city.

The Israeli navy opened its gun machines towards the shores of the town of Al-Zahra and the Nuseirat refugee camp, Wafa also reported.

In the southern Gaza Strip, the Israeli army destroyed entire buildings in the city of Rafah, while army artillery struck the Shaboura neighborhood in central Rafah.

Health authorities have yet to confirm the number of casualties from these attacks.

Israel, flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire, has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an Oct. 7, 2023 attack by Hamas.

Over 38,000 Palestinians have since been killed, mostly women and children, and nearly 88,000 others injured, according to local health authorities.

Nine months into the Israeli war, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.

Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where over a million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on May 6.