Live Updates: Israel kills 7 members of same family in strike on Gaza home

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

05:18 GMT — Israel kills 7 members of same family in strike on Gaza home

Israel has killed at least seven members of the same family and wounded several others in an air strike on a home in Gaza City, Al-Ahli Hospital reported.

The casualties from Israeli strike on an apartment in the devastated northern city was reported by Al-Ahli hospital said, with eyewitnesses also reporting strikes elsewhere in the besieged enclave, particularly around Rafah.

04:24 GMT — Palestinian resistance groups fight invading Israeli troops in Rafah

Clashes continue between the invading Israeli military and Palestinian resistance groups in the eastern part of Rafah city in southern Gaza.

Israeli warplanes and artillery also targeted the municipality headquarters, land near the border with Egypt and homes, resulting in many casualties, Anadolu Agency reported.

The Palestinian resistance group Hamas' military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, said in a statement that they targeted an Israeli Merkava tank with a Yasin 105 shell and set it on fire.

03:46 GMT — Israeli army intercepts suspected drone heading toward Red Sea port

The Israeli occupation military has said it has intercepted a "suspicious aerial target" that was headed toward the Red Sea port of Eilat [Umm al-Rashrash in Arabic].

The military said the drone was launched from the east and intercepted outside of Israeli airspace. It gave no further details on the source of the launch.

Yemen's Houthi group have repeatedly fired missiles and drones toward Israel throughout the seven-month war in Gaza in solidarity with the Palestinians fighting Israeli invasion in Gaza.

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