• Israeli occupation army's raids result in dozens of civilian deaths and injuries.
• Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, targeted in the second attack since October 7.
• Palestinian resistance announces operations including enemy force destruction, mortar shelling, and soldier and vehicle shelling.
• Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades release video demonstrating readiness for war continuation.
• US President Joe Biden warns Israel of US halting weapons supply if Rafah invades.
• UK student protests against Gaza war reach UK, leading to a hunger strike and tents.

 The Israeli genocidal war on besieged Gaza has entered its 216th day, with the Zionist occupation forces continuing to commit mass massacres, by launching dozens of air strikes, artillery shelling, and bloody massacres against civilians.

“Al-Zaytoun Neighborhood” under bombardment

 In a series of raids carried out on different areas of the Strip by the occupation army's military boats, artillery, and aircraft, dozens of citizens—the majority of them women and children—were martyred and injured, and many more went missing—as the occupation army continues its aggression against Gaza, according to the Palestinian News Agency (Wafa).

The agency reported that the occupation army announced this morning the start of an attack in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza City, the second of its kind since the start of the aggression on the seventh of last October.

Medical sources reported that dozens were killed as a result of the occupation warplanes bombing homes in the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood, and others were injured with various injuries, while there are still missing people under the rubble of destroyed homes.

7 Resistance Operations

The Palestinian resistance continues to confront the Zionist forces invading several areas of Gaza, announcing several operations, most notably:

1- “Al-Qassam Brigades”:

- Destroying the enemy forces penetrating east of the city of Rafah with mortar shells.

- A Zionist “D9” bulldozer was targeted with a “Tandum” shell southeast of the Al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City.

- Targeting two Zionist vehicles penetrating south of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City with an “Al-Yassin 105” shell and a “Shawaz” device.

2- “Al-Quds Brigades”:

- Bombardment with heavy caliber mortar shells on military concentrations of enemy forces east of the Al-Shoka neighborhood on the eastern edge of the city of Rafah.

- Bombing the Zionist military concentrations east of the city of Rafah with a barrage of regular “60 caliber” mortar shells.

- Shelling with mortar shells enemy soldiers and vehicles penetrating the vicinity of “Ali Mosque” southwest of the Al-Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

- Mortar shelling of a command and control center on the supply line to the “Netzarim” axis, south of Gaza City.

Al-Qassam Showing Readiness to Continue

The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), published a video clip today, Thursday, showing its readiness to continue the war.

The video, which carried “Sendak the Prestige of Your Army,” showed Al-Qassam fighters conducting monitoring operations and loading rocket batteries and mortar shells in preparation for their launch, according to Al Jazeera.

Biden threatens to stop weapons

AFP reported that US President Joe Biden publicly warned Israel for the first time, on Wednesday, that the United States would stop supplying it with weapons if it launched a major invasion of the city of Rafah, which is crowded with refugees in the southern Gaza Strip.

The agency quoted Biden, during his interview with the American CNN network: I made it clear that if they entered Rafah, I would not provide them with the weapons that were historically used to deal with Rafah, and to deal with the cities that are dealing with this problem.

In the first reaction from the “Israeli” side to Biden’s warning, the occupation’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, said to “Israeli” public radio: It is a very difficult matter and a very disappointing statement issued by the president, to whom we have expressed our gratitude since the beginning of the war.

Student protests in the UK

Student protests against the war in the Gaza Strip have reached the United Kingdom. A group of tents were erected, Palestinian flags and slogans calling for a ceasefire were raised in the gardens of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, according to Agence France-Presse.

The student movement began at the University of Warwick in central England, in the “Gaza Solidarity Camp,” on April 26.

The tents then spread to the universities of Newcastle, Edinburgh, Manchester, Cambridge and Oxford.

In Edinburgh, a group of students began a hunger strike to demand a ceasefire in Gaza.