FIGHTING AT CLOSE QUARTERS
Hamas launched a video on Sunday that it stated had been filmed in northern Gaza. It confirmed fighters positioned in blown-out buildings and in piles of wreckage, clad in civilian clothes and firing projectiles at Israeli forces.
The Israeli army stated on Sunday forces working in Beit Hanoun had struck Hamas militants and infrastructure. Hamas and the allied Islamic Jihad group stated they triggered casualties amongst Israeli troopers.
Individually, Israel allowed the Catholic bishop of Jerusalem, the Latin patriarch, into Gaza on Sunday, in line with an announcement on the Latin Patriarchate web site and COGAT, the Israeli defence company that coordinates with the Palestinians, after Pope Francis stated on Saturday that the patriarch had not been allowed in.
Elsewhere, Israeli army strikes throughout the Gaza Strip killed a minimum of 29 Palestinians, eight of them – together with some youngsters – at a college sheltering displaced households in Gaza Metropolis, medics stated.
