The genocidal war led by Israel on the besieged Gaza Strip entered its 296th day, with the Zionist occupation forces continuing to commit acts of genocide in Gaza through dozens of airstrikes, artillery shelling, and bloody massacres against civilians.
The following are the developments:
Zionist bombardment in southern Gaza
The occupation continues its aggression on the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian sources reported the martyrdom of 8 citizens in Khan Yunis city and its surroundings in southern Gaza since early Sunday, who were taken to Nasser Medical Hospital.
The Palestinian News Agency stated that the occupation artillery targeted the neighborhoods of Tel Al-Hawa, Al-Sabra, Al-Zaytoun, and Sheikh Ajleen in Gaza City, while warplanes simultaneously conducted two airstrikes on Tel Al-Hawa.
It added that the occupation warplanes targeted a building belonging to the Daghmash family on Morocco Street in Al-Sabra neighborhood in southern Gaza City, without causing any injuries.
Additionally, Zionist vehicles fired their machine guns while launching illumination bombs in the northwest of Al-Nuseirat refugee camp and north of Al-Bureij camp in central Gaza.
The agency also mentioned that the occupation army demolished residential buildings east of Khan Yunis city in southern Gaza, leading to smoke rising from the area, simultaneous with the occupation warplanes shelling the surroundings of the Qizan Al-Najjar area south of the city, and firing towards the homes and properties of citizens.
Thirteen citizens, including children and women, were martyred and dozens were injured in the occupation's bombardment of Khan Yunis city in southern Gaza on Sunday evening.
The Palestinian News Agency reported that the occupation warplanes targeted a house in Khan Yunis city, resulting in the martyrdom of 10 citizens and the injury of dozens who were transferred to Nasser Hospital.
It added that the occupation targeted a group of citizens in the railway area in Khan Yunis, leading to the martyrdom of 3 citizens who were transported to Nasser Hospital.
66 martyrs in one day
The Ministry of Health announced that the occupation committed 3 massacres against families in Gaza, leading to 66 martyrs and 241 injuries admitted to hospitals in the past 24 hours.
The ministry confirmed that the toll of the aggression has risen to 39,324 martyrs and 90,830 injuries since October 7 last year.
More than 16,000 martyrs in the first half of 2024
The Foundation for the Care of Martyrs and Wounded Families stated that 16,255 citizens were martyred, and 31,297 others were injured in the first half of 2024, according to the Palestinian News Agency.
The foundation explained in its statistical report on the numbers of martyrs and wounded in Palestine, covering the period from January 1 to June 30, 2024, that 16,012 were martyred in the southern governorates, with over 30,407 others injured.
Among the martyrs were 6,725 children and 6,725 women, while around 10,000 victims remain under the rubble and in the streets where ambulance and civil defense crews cannot reach them.
The report also noted 38 deaths in the southern governorates due to the policy of starvation implemented by the occupation forces since October 7, 2023.
In the northern governorates, the Foundation for the Care of Martyrs and Wounded Families documented the martyrdom of 237 individuals and the injury of 890 others in the first half of the current year.
It mentioned that among the martyrs were 45 children, 4 women, and 6 martyrs due to settler attacks, as well as 27 students (21 from the school stage and 6 from university students).
Key resistance operations
The Palestinian resistance continues to confront the Zionist forces infiltrating multiple fronts in Gaza, as the Al-Qassam Brigades announced today, Sunday, targeting enemy command rooms in the "Netzarim" axis with short-range "Rajum" rockets of 114mm caliber.
Al-Qassam said they struck enemy forces infiltrating the area around the university campus south of Gaza City with heavy mortar shells.
They also announced that their fighters were able to target a Zionist foot patrol with an anti-personnel "Ra'diya" explosive device, resulting in one killed and one injured near the Al-Baraa bin Azib Mosque in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood south of Gaza City.
They further stated that they were able to target a Zionist force entrenched inside a building with an anti-personnel shell, resulting in casualties near the Al-Baraa bin Azib Mosque in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood.
They also reported targeting a Zionist "Namer" armored personnel carrier with a "Yassin 105" shell near the Al-Baraa bin Azib Mosque.
Al-Qassam shells enemy forces in the Juhor al-Dik area with mortar shells
They also reported striking the enemy command headquarters in the incursion area west of the university campus south of the Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City with several mortar shells.
Al-Qassam fighters were able to target a Zionist engineering force with an anti-personnel "Ra'diya" explosive device, resulting in casualties in the Salam neighborhood east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Al-Quds Brigades announced shelling a kibbutz and the "Nahal Oz" military site with a hail of heavy mortar shells.
They also shelled "Sderot" and settlements in the Gaza envelope with a missile barrage today.
The brigades targeted enemy soldiers and vehicles with mortar shells and rockets (107) in the "Abu Uruban" site in the "Netzarim" axis.
They reported targeting the Zionist military crane and its surroundings in the Zana area in the eastern Khan Yunis advancement axis with a hail of heavy mortar shells, confirming the landing of a Zionist helicopter in order to evacuate the dead and injured soldiers after the crane and its surroundings caught fire.
They continued to shell enemy soldiers and vehicles infiltrating the Bani Suheila cemetery east of Khan Yunis with regular mortar shells.
The Al-Quds Brigades also targeted a Zionist helicopter with gunfire from a machine gun while flying at low altitude in the Zana area in the eastern Khan Yunis advancement axis.
They also reported shelling enemy soldiers and vehicles infiltrating the perimeter of the "Reem" hall south of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
Israeli reports: "Difficult event" amid fierce clashes in Khan Yunis
Hebrew media reported a "difficult security event" on Sunday in Khan Yunis, where fierce clashes are taking place between the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli army, while shelling continues in several areas in the Gaza Strip, according to Al-Jazeera channel.
Al-Jazeera reported that an Israeli helicopter landed in the town of Bani Suheila east of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip amid artillery shelling.
The channel quoted Hebrew media as saying that Israeli soldiers who were injured in the ongoing battles in the area have been evacuated, and Hebrew Channel 12 reported intense fighting in Khan Yunis.
