Israel’s war on Gaza updates: Clashes in Gaza City after Israeli all-clear

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• The US and UK have issued a joint statement saying their militaries – with support from allies including Australia, Bahrain and Canada – hit 36 Houthi targets in 13 locations across Yemen.
• Israeli settlers raided a village near Jenin by Israeli forces when they raided several homes in the village of Farasin, southwest of Jenin.
• Israel army says it has attacked more than 50 Hezbollah targets in Syria and many more in Lebanon since the war with Hamas in Gaza began in October.
• The armed wing of Hamas says it hit a group of Israeli soldiers in Gaza City with mortar fire.
• Portugal has decided to provide additional support to UNRWA, pledging 1 million euros ($1.08m) to the Palestinian refugee agency.
• Eleven displaced people have been injured inside the Palestine Red Crescent Society’s (PRCS) headquarters in southern Khan Younis city following the throwing of smoke bombs by Israeli forces.

Several Palestinians have been injured and killed amid Israeli bombardment of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, reports Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum.

“Within the past few hours, they have targeted the facility of the European hospital,” says Abu Azzoum.

Shrapnel caused damage to hospital buildings after a nearby fuel tank was destroyed, Abu Azzoum adds.

The Wafa news agency, meanwhile, reports that one person was killed and six others injured when the fuel station was hit.

Wafa also reports Israeli warplanes targeted the Al-Manara neighbourhood, southeast of Khan Younis and artillery shelling in the Miraj area of Khan Younis province.

Nepal Farsakh, the director of media at the Palestinian Red Crescent, tells Al Jazeera that only Israeli forces know what happened to Hind, a little Palestinian girl its ambulances dispatched to rescue several days ago.

“We are worried about the child Hind and our team, whose fate we do not yet know,” he said. The PRCS said it lost contact with the ambulance crew it sent to undertake the rescue.

Hind’s sister Layan and other family members are believed to have been killed by an Israeli attack while they were on an emergency call.

Almost four months into the war on Gaza, the Israeli spin machine continues to deflect audiences away from stories it doesn’t want to be told and towards stories it does.

The accusations against UNRWA staff, a few of whom Israel says participated in Hamas’s October 7 attacks, created a media storm just days after the International Court of Justice issued a strong rebuke of Israel’s conduct in the war.

Watch Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post for more on how the media covers the war on Gaza.

According to the report, the settlers were accompanied by Israeli occupation forces when they raided several homes in the village of Farasin, southwest of Jenin.

The report said the settlers damaged the contents of the houses and seized surveillance camera recordings.

Malik Al-Zaban, a resident of the village, said the settlers ransacked a poultry farm he owns, which they destroyed after tearing down greenhouses and smashing equipment.

He added that the settlers broke down the doors and windows of several houses.

Settlers also took control of a plot of agricultural land in the mountainous area of the nearby Zabda village, which they are now using for their livestock to graze.

They are also preventing the Palestinian landowners from accessing their properties while under the protection of the Israeli military, Wafa reported.

As diplomatic tensions between Israel and Egypt continue to rise over Israel’s continuing war on Gaza and its military’s plans to seize the strip’s southern border with Egypt, Israel is considering closing the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, Israeli broadcaster Channel 13 reports.

If Israel decides to go ahead with the move, the crossing would be placed at the Israel-Gaza-Egypt border triangle area, near Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom), and would not have any involvement from Egyptian authorities in security checks, the broadcaster says.

Its report adds that Israel has raised this issue with the Egyptians but has not yet gotten a definitive response.

The funding bill, offered by a House of Representatives appropriations panel, could come to a vote in the full House sometime next week, Speaker Mike Johnson said in a letter to members.

The Republican-controlled House had previously approved $14.3bn in new military aid to Israel but with the requirement that it be paid for by clawing back a chunk of money already targeted for the US Internal Revenue Service.

Palestinian journalist Omar al-Gaza has shared video, which Al Jazeera verefied, of the ruins of northern Gaza City.

It shows entire residential towers reduced to rubble after an extensive and indiscriminate bombing campaign by the Israeli military on the city.

Palestinians who fled the bombing have been returning to Gaza’s largest city after the Israeli army pulled out of some neighbourhoods there. In other areas, it continues to clash with Palestinian fighters.

Translation: Al-Maqusi Towers area – northern Gaza City, where a large number of towers, buildings, schools and clinics have been destroyed.

Dr Sobhi Skaik, director general of the Turkish Friendship Hospital, who has been pushed to another hospital in Rafah like most of the internally displaced, says the referrals to be treated abroad are high but the injured are not being allowed out of Gaza fast enough.

Skaik tells Al Jazeera that the services he and his staff have been able to provide are “simple” due to a lack of equipment and medicine, and that the small number of specialists is not enough to sustain the large numbers of injured and sick.

“We have no cancer medications at all in Gaza. We also don’t have the facilities to diagnose illnesses: Our doctors have been killed, our infrastructure has been destroyed, no medications to our patients, we are merely receiving patients to alleviate their pain,” he said.

“We are taking action. Everywhere Hezbollah is, we shall be,” chief military spokesperson Daniel Hagari has said during a news briefing.

The remarks were a departure from Israel’s usual reticence when talking about Syria operations. The Israeli army has launched repeated air raids on Syria since its war on Gaza began on October 7.

Moreover, Hagari said Israeli forces have attacked many Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, including 120 border surveillance outposts, 40 caches of missiles and other weaponry and more than 40 command centres.

In a post on X, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees warns that “an unprecedented catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes”.

“Each hour is more desperate. People are dying at the world’s watch,” it said as it displayed a picture of children, women and the elderly in Gaza trying to get their share of food being provided.

There are a few thousand people gathered here at what is now known as Hostage Square.

What we’re hearing tonight are pleas to the government to do more to ensure the release of those captives. There is a lot of speculation in Israel right now about where things stand when it comes to another potential ceasefire and that we see the release of Israeli captives.

Many speakers have been talking tonight to the assembled demonstrators, addressing the government directly saying that, yes, there are competing goals when it comes to the war in Gaza, that yes, obviously one of the objectives is the defeat of Hamas.

However, they say the objective that’s of paramount importance is to ensure the safety of those captives that are still there and that the government needs to be doing more.