The Israeli army said it is continuing its attacks on the Palestinian militant Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, with soldiers operating in both the central part of the coastal strip and the city of Rafah in the south.
An unspecified number of armed opponents had been killed and weapons depots destroyed, the army said. Since Saturday, the air force had conducted around 50 attacks on what it called terrorist targets.
There was no more precise or independent information available from the embattled area. The reports cannot be independently verified.
Almost ten months after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel and the ground offensive in Gaza that soon followed, militants are still sporadically firing rockets at Israel. Five projectiles had been fired at Ashkelon but did not cause any damage, the army said.
The trigger for the Gaza war was the unprecedented massacre in which more than 1,200 people were killed by Hamas and other militant groups on October 7 last year in Israel.
Due to the high number of civilian casualties, Israel has come under international criticism.
According to figures from Gaza’s Hamas-controlled Health Ministry, more than 39,000 people have been killed and more than 90,000 injured in the coastal strip since the start of the war on October 7.
