Israel kills two in northern Gaza as Rafah crossing sees little movement
Al Jazeera
Israeli forces also target Khan Younis home in south as Palestinians trickle across Rafah border in either direction.
Two Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip, emergency services said, with multiple attacks reported across the coastal enclave as Israel presses its genocidal war despite the “ceasefire” it has violated daily since October 10.
The bodies of those killed in the cities of Jabalia and Beit Lahiya were transported on Friday to al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City.
In southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, Israel struck a Palestinian home, with the military, claiming the attack was in response to its soldiers being shot near the so-called yellow line – the demarcation line where the Israeli army entrenched under the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire, creating its own buffer zone.
“Within half an hour, the house was evacuated. It was cleared out, and then it was bombed,” resident Saleh Abu Hatab told Al Jazeera, adding it was located “opposite a school sheltering displaced people”.
Al Jazeera’s Hind Khoudary, reporting from Khan Younis, said the attack hit a multistorey building belonging to the Abu Hatab family.
Hezbollah says its attack is in response to the killing of Iran’s Khamenei and ‘in defence of Lebanon and its people’.
President Masoud Pezeshkian condemns killing of Iran’s supreme leader as ‘a great crime’, according to his office.
Iran confirms targeting US bases across the Middle East.