The Israeli army said that it carried out 30 raids on Monday night on the southern city of Khan Yunis, at a time when it is intensifying its military attack on the central and southern Gaza Strip.
CNN cannot independently verify the operational details reported by the IDF.
The Israeli army said that the Israeli forces and air force bombed “underground targets, terrorist infrastructure and weapons storage facilities.”
The Israeli army claimed that in Khan Yunis, “the forces identified 10 terrorists in the areas from which rockets were launched towards Israeli territory.” The forces then bombed the areas with a drone.
In an agricultural area in central Gaza, the Israeli army said that forces found a tunnel opening, thousands of dollars and weapons. In Al-Maghazi, central Gaza, a fighter jet bombed a weapons storage facility where long-range missiles were stored.
Some context: The Hamas-run Health Ministry said deadly bombardment had escalated in the southern city of Khan Yunis in recent weeks, including on Saturday, when an Israeli airstrike killed at least seven family members.
Then on Sunday, Hamza Wael al-Dahdouh, 27, the son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief, was killed in an apparent Israeli airstrike, along with Al Jazeera employee Mustafa Thuraya, the network reported.
The IDF issued several evacuation orders asking civilians to leave a large part of the area. The Israeli bombing and siege have displaced nearly 90% of Gaza’s population of more than 2.2 million people, according to the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees.
