The Israeli military says it is continuing its attacks on the Palestinian militant Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, with soldiers active in both the central part of the coastal strip and the city of Rafah in the south.
An unknown number of armed opponents had been killed and weapons caches destroyed, the military said. Since Saturday, the air force had carried out about 50 strikes on what it called terrorist targets.
No more accurate or independent information was available from the besieged area. The reports cannot be independently verified.
Nearly 10 months after Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel and the ground offensive in Gaza that followed shortly after, militants are still sporadically firing rockets into Israel. Five projectiles were fired into Ashkelon, but caused no damage, the military said.
The trigger for the war in Gaza was the unprecedented massacre in Israel on October 7 last year, in which more than 1,200 people were killed by Hamas and other militant groups.
Israel has been subject to international criticism due to the high number of civilian casualties.
More than 39,000 people have been killed and over 90,000 wounded in the coastal strip since the war began on October 7, according to figures from the Hamas-controlled Health Ministry in Gaza.
