Israel war on Gaza live: Israeli tanks, planes, drones strike western Rafah
- Israeli tanks and drones push into Rafah’s western neighbourhoods as attack on aid-seekers killed at least nine Palestinians and injured 30.
- UNRWA estimates just 65,000 people remain in Rafah, where more than one million Palestinians had been seeking shelter before fleeing the Israeli military’s advance on the southern city.
- Hezbollah leader warns that “no place” would be spared from attacks in a full-scale war with Israel after Israel said operational plans for a Lebanon offensive had been approved.
- A UN commission reports that Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- At least 37,396 people killed and 85,523 injured in Israel’s war on Gaza
Women and children among Nuseirat victims
As we reported earlier, two people have been killed and 12 wounded from Israeli bombardment of a home in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
The Wafa news agency is now reporting that the two people killed were women, adding that women and children were among the 12 wounded.
Elsewhere in central Gaza, the Israeli military also carried out raids in the Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps, as well as to the north of Nuseirat, Wafa added.
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Hamas ‘preserves’ fighting force in Rafah, does not see battle as ‘decisive’: Monitors
Hamas fighters are avoiding decisive battles with the Israeli military in Gaza’s southern Rafah city, where Israeli forces have found few of the Palestinian group’s units above ground, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) report.
Hamas fighters are remaining in combat tunnel networks in Rafah, while remotely detonating buildings in the city that were “rigged to explode prior to the arrival of Israeli forces”, the US-based think tanks report in their latest battlefield update.
“The use of prepared explosively rigged buildings and tunnels suggests that Hamas’ units in Rafah prepared to preserve their strength by avoiding direct engagements,” the ISW/CTP say in their joint report.
Hamas fighters also launched an attack drone towards an Israeli town near the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, and rockets were fired from Gaza targeting Israel’s Ashkelon and another town bordering the north of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to the report.
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Photos: Seas of tents in Khan Younis as 1 million flee Rafah
Palestinians gather outside a home destroyed by Israeli bombardment in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday night [Mohammed Salem/Reuters] 
An informal tent camp now sprawl beside the ocean and in between destroyed buildings in Khan Younis [Haitham Imad/EPA] 
Khan Younis is the closest city to Rafah, where the UN says just 65,000 Palestinians now remain, after more than one million fled Israel’s ground invasion since early May [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo] 
A Palestinian girl stands outside her family’s tent in a makeshift tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, Gaza, on Tuesday [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo] - 40m ago(05:20 GMT)
Israeli tanks push into 5 west Rafah neighbourhoods: Report
Residents of Rafah say that Israeli tanks – supported by fighter jets and drones – have moved into five neighbourhoods in the west of the city, Reuters reports.
Heavy shelling and gunfire also targeted the tents of displaced families in the al-Mawasi area – located further to the west of Rafah, Reuters reports.
We will bring you more on the Israeli military operation in western Rafah as information emerges.
This picture taken from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip shows smoke plumes billowing during ongoing battles between Israeli forces and Palestinian fighters in the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood in the northwest of Rafah on Tuesday [Bashar Taleb/AFP] - 49m ago(05:10 GMT)
WATCH: Escalation neither side would be able to withhold whatever the limits are – Marwan Bishara
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara said the region appears to be getting closer to all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah because of the continuing escalation.
And even if not intentional, a war could still break out due to a miscalculation amid the ongoing clashes.
“It could still happen by mistake,” Bishara said, in a situation where “neither side would be able to withhold whatever the limits are”.
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Escalation neither side would be able to withhold whatever the limits are: Marwan Bishara
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