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Israel strikes Gaza City suburb, Palestinian medics say

Tents drenched during a rain storm at a makeshift camp in Gaza City
Tents drenched during a rain storm at a makeshift camp in Gaza City

The Israeli military has kept up the pressure on northern Gaza, striking a suburb of Gaza City, medics said, and told residents in a central part of the territory to move from an area where militants are firing rockets.

Air strikes in Shejaia, a suburb of Gaza City, killed at least eight Palestinians, according to emergency services.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, and it was not immediately clear who was killed in the attack.

In al-Buriej, in central Gaza, Israel's army said that it struck a militant operating in an area where rockets had been fired from the previous day.

Its Arabic spokesman had ordered people to leave the area before the strike.

Palestinian news agency WAFA said that two people were killed in that attack and 15 more in an airstrike in Jabalia.

There was no immediate confirmation from Gaza health officials. Israel's military said it killed Hamas fighters in the attack.

Men mop away rain water that flooded the medical tent annex at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis

Much of the area around the northern towns of Beit Hanoun, Jabalia and Beit Lahiya has been cleared of people and razed, fuelling speculation, which Israel denies, that it intends to keep the area as a buffer zone after the fighting in Gaza ends.

Israel said that its almost three-month-old campaign in northern Gaza is aimed at preventing Hamas militants from regrouping.

Its instructions to civilians to evacuate are meant to keep them out of harm's way, the military said.

Palestinian and United Nations officials have said that no place is safe in Gaza and that evacuations worsen the humanitarian conditions of the population.

People queue to receive food as heavy rain floods makeshift tends in Deir al-Balah

According to the Palestinian civil defence, more than 1,500 tents sheltering displaced people across Gaza were flooded by heavy rains over the past two days, leaving people exposed to the cold, their belongings damaged.

Israel's campaign in Gaza has killed more than 45,500 Palestinians, according to health officials in the Hamas-run enclave.

Most of the territory's 2.3 million people have been displaced and much of the coastal strip is in ruins.

The war was triggered by Hamas' 7 October 2023, attack on Israel, in which 1,200 people were killed and 251 taken hostage to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.

Palestinian Authority suspends broadcast of Al Jazeera TV

The Palestinian Authority has suspended the broadcast of Qatar's Al Jazeera TV temporarily for "inciting material," Palestinian official news agency WAFA reported.

A ministerial committee that includes the culture, interior and communications ministries decided to suspend operations over what they described as broadcasting "inciting material and reports that were deceiving and stirring strife" in the country.

The decision is not expected to be implemented in Hamas-run Gaza where the Palestinian Authority does not exercise power.

Al Jazeera TV last week came under criticism by the Palestinian Authority over its coverage of the weeks-long standoff between Palestinian security forces and militant fighters in the Jenin camp in the occupied West Bank.



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Fatah, the faction which controls the Palestinian Authority, said the broadcaster was sowing division in "our Arab homeland in general and in Palestine in particular".

It encouraged Palestinians not to cooperate with the network.

Israeli forces in September issued Al Jazeera with a military order to shut down operations, after they raided the outlet's bureau in the West Bank city of Ramallah.