The death toll of 18 days of Israeli attacks is 930, with more than 4,280 injured.

Israeli troops invaded and ransacked several homes in the southern Gaza City neighborhood of Tel Al-Hawwah, gathering groups of soldiers on the roofs of homes and firing on scared locals. At least four were killed in the attack.

As usual the ground attacks were preceded by air and tank fire. Missiles struck the An-Nasser home as well as the Abd Al-Carpentry workshop in Tel Al-Hawwah. Many residents were fleeing their homes in the hill-top area overlooking the Gaza shore as Israeli troops overran the area.

Down the eastern slope of Tel Al-Hawwah residents reported intensive shelling near the Al-Mujtama college, which was its self demolished. Residents are fleeing this residential neighborhood as well, many not knowing which areas in Gaza City are safe.

Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades sent several statements announcing their attacks on Israeli troops near Tel Al-Hawwah. According to their reports at least eight Israeli military vehicles were hit including two bulldozers being used to tear down buildings and facilitate troop movement in the densely populated city.

In parallel the An-Nasser brigades announced that they launched an RPG and four homemade projectiles at an Israeli tank participating in the ground battles.

Further east and closer to the city center resistance factions clashed with invading Israeli ground troops. The troops were accompanied with tank and air fire, which resulted in the death of two Al-Qassam fighters in the Az-Zaytoun neighborhood. The Brigades identified the dead as Ahmad Abu Gazar and Muhammad Al-Hawar.

On the other end of the city in the northern neighborhood of Sheikh Radwan, dozens were injured as Israeli troops came at the city from a second direction. Two were killed in strikes on the nearby Al-Karama neighborhood.

Further north near the border with Israel Israeli warplanes struck the Bet Lahiya square in Al-Taw’am area, demolishing a residential apartment tower. Strikes in Jabaliya killed two.

In Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip Israeli troops attacked a group of resistance fighters near the At-Tawhid mosque. One was killed in strikes on the Abbasan area.

Ari attacks in Rafah destroyed the Khuza’a and Kaware homes, and in the central strip more air strikes destroyed several buildings in the Nusseruat refugee camp.

Medical Sources

Head of Emergency and Ambulance Services in the Ministry of Health Muawiya Hassanain said he had received 11 bodies at the Gaza City hospital since dawn, but said there were certainly more bodies in the streets and beneath bombed buildings who cannot be reached because of ongoing Israeli attacks.

Among the dead identified Tuesday morning were two from the Al-Sherbasi family, killed in the Az-Zaitoun neighborhood, but ambulances have been unable to reach the dead and collect them because of the continued fighting in the area. The same was true, he said, for two dead in the Al-Karamah area, since Israeli forces are still pushing into the area and will not allow emergency vehicles into the area.