Gaza: Israeli Occupation Forces Intensify Attacks as Humanitarian Crisis Deepen
A sad morning on the third day of Eid Al-Adha, as this bereaved family bid farewell to a loved one who was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces while desperately waiting for food outside the U.S. aid distribution center in southern Gaza. pic.twitter.com/Kavg42W3PN
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) June 8, 2025
Sources in Gaza's hospitals reported that since Sunday morning, Israeli airstrikes killed 21 Palestinians across different areas of the strip. Meanwhile, resistance groups set up ambushes to attack Israeli soldiers, causing further casualties.
One source from Nasser Medical Complex said two bodies were recovered after Israeli shelling in the Ma'an area east of Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza. Another from Al-Shifa Hospital reported that eight Palestinians were martyred Israeli in attacks on Jabalia al-Balad, in the north. An elderly man and a young girl were among those injured during Israeli shelling in the Al-Atatra neighborhood, in Beit Lahia, north of Gaza.
BREAKING: Two Palestinians were just killed in an Israeli attack on Ma'an neighborhood, southeast of Khan Younis, according to local sources. pic.twitter.com/qFtetnItjJ
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) June 8, 2025
Photos captured ongoing bombardments in the Qizan al-Najjar and Qizan Rashwan areas south of Khan Yunis. Bombing also hit the Batn al-Sameen area, where Israeli planes flew low over the city. Gaza is under a heavy military push by Israeli forces.
The Civil Defense in Gaza said Israel killed 15 people in the al-Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City. Dozens more were trapped under rubble, injured, or wounded. Palestinian Mujahideen mourned their Secretary-General, Asaad Abu Sharia, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting him and his family in al-Sabra.
New Ambushes
Despite the brutality of the aggression, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), previously announced that its fighters had blown up a tunnel on Friday targeting an Israeli infantry force of six soldiers, killing and wounding them in the Murtaja area, southeast of Khan Yunis.
In the northern Gaza Strip, the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, said its fighters on Friday ambushed an Israeli force holed up inside a house, during which they detonated reverse-engineered explosive devices and shells in the Tel al-Zaatar area east of Jabalia camp.
The Al-Quds Brigades added that they shelled a barrage of mortar shells at a gathering of Israeli soldiers and vehicles advancing near the eastern line of Khan Yunis.
Since October 7, 2023, the occupying entity, with American support, has been committing genocide in Gaza, killing, starving, destroying, and displacing civilians, ignoring international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The war of extermination has left more than 180,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them women and children, and more than 11,000 missing. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced, many of them children, and the famine has caused widespread destruction.
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