Israel’s assault on Gaza City intensifies: tanks and airstrikes demolish entire blocks in a bid to seize control.
Israel is levelling entire neighbourhoods in its push to occupy Gaza City on Wednesday, using tanks and airstrikes to flatten residential blocks.
According to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, Israeli forces continue to shell and remotely detonate homes in Gaza City’s Zeitoun and Sabra neighbourhoods.
Meanwhile, an Israeli strike on a home in the Daraj neighbourhood has killed at least two people and injured several others, Wafa reported.
Despite widespread protests at home and international condemnation, Israel has launched a new offensive in Gaza City, in what it describes as Hamas’s last bastion.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces carried out a rare daytime raid on Tuesday in the heart of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority is headquartered.
Dozens of Palestinians were wounded, according to local medics, as people throwing stones scattered after gunfire and tear gas.
Israel said it targeted money exchanges linked to Hamas. But the raid was likely to further undermine the internationally recognised Palestinian Authority as it seeks to capitalise on the recent decision by some major Western countries to recognise Palestinian statehood.