A Hezbollah drone attack targeting an Israeli military base in Ayelet HaShahar in the Upper Galilee caused a state of panic among soldiers, according to a video verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency.
In the footage shared by Israeli Army Radio on X, sirens are heard in the vicinity of the Israeli base as soldiers run into chaos trying to take cover.
One of the soldiers says in a tense voice, “[the drone] will fall here, yes it will fall here”. Another soldier is heard shouting, “there’s one more here”, before the camera captures the moment a drone was intercepted just over the base, and the soldier who was filming ran inside to take cover.
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On the other side, at least 37,598 people have been killed and 86,032 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from the Hamas-led attacks stands at 1,139, with dozens of people still held captive in Gaza.
The houses are located in al-Murashahaat area, southwest of Jericho City, the official news agency Wafa reports.
Israeli forces demolished the homes of Abdullah Ahmed Nujoom and Mohammed Eid Nujoom under the pretext of building in Area C.
Area C in the occupied West Bank is under exclusive Israeli administrative and security control.
This comes after Israeli soldiers demolished three homes in the town of Ein ad-Duyuk at-Tahta, northwest of Jericho in the West Bank, earlier this morning.
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According to the Palestinian commission focusing on the separation wall and illegal settlements, Israeli forces demolished 66 structures in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, in May alone.
The armed wing of Hamas, Qassam Brigades, says that its fighters and others from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s al-Quds Brigades have shelled an area where a group of Israeli soldiers and military vehicles had been stationed in Yibna refugee camp in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah.
The group also said that its fighters destroyed an “Ofek” armoured personnel carrier with a rocket west of the Tal Zourob neighbourhood in Rafah.
“As soon as other forces came to their aid, fighters targeted them” with homemade 114mm short-range “Rajum” rockets, it added.
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Moreover, football player Ahmad Abu al-Atta has been killed, along with his wife and two children, in an air strike that hit their Gaza City home, according to the Palestinian Football Association (PFA).
The strike took place on Friday, local media reported today.
Abu al Atta, 34, was a defender for the enclave’s Al-Ahly Gaza football team. His wife, Ruba Esmael Abu al-Atta, was a medical professional, the PFA said in a statement.
Abu al Atta’s death adds to the toll of more than 300 athletes, referees, and sports officials who have been killed since the Gaza war started, Jibril Rajoub, president of the Palestinian Olympic Committee, said earlier this month.
