Gaza: Martyrs in Israeli raids and fire belts for the second day after the agreement was announced

Israeli warplanes launched night raids that resulted in martyrs and injuries, and carried out fire belts in the northern Gaza Strip, after a series of massacres following the announcement of the ceasefire agreement that is supposed to take effect the day after tomorrow, Sunday.

Just before midnight, Al Jazeera's correspondent reported that there were martyrs and wounded as a result of Israeli raids targeting homes on Jaffa Street, northeast of Gaza City.

Al-Aqsa TV said that the Israeli occupation forces are preventing ambulance crews from reaching the targeted homes to retrieve the martyrs and wounded.

Meanwhile, areas in the Al-Zeitoun neighborhood, south of the city, were subjected to artillery shelling, according to the same source.

In the past two days, many neighborhoods in Gaza City were subjected to violent shelling, which left dozens of martyrs, as part of a significant escalation of the Israeli aggression following the announcement of the ceasefire agreement.

An attempt to retrieve the martyrs and wounded from under the rubble of a house belonging to the Baraka family in Abasan, east of Khan Yunis city. pic.twitter.com/TmmCf7Pekn

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Fire belts north of Gaza

In the developments of the aggression, Al-Aqsa TV reported that Israeli warplanes carried out fire belts in the northern Gaza Strip early Friday.

For his part, Al Jazeera's correspondent reported renewed Israeli raids on Jabalia al-Balad in the northern Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources said that the night raids on Jabalia al-Balad were accompanied by artillery shelling of the area.

Al Jazeera's correspondent reported earlier that more than 20 Palestinians were killed yesterday, Thursday, in a bombing of homes in Jabalia.

January 17, 2025

Ongoing battles

Meanwhile, battles continue between the Palestinian resistance and the occupation forces advancing on several fronts in the northern Gaza Strip.

The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, announced yesterday, Thursday, that its fighters had shelled Israeli crowds and vehicles that had penetrated the vicinity of a stadium in the center of the Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip with mortar shells.

The Brigades also said that its fighters had seized an Israeli drone before it carried out offensive missions in the northern Gaza Strip.

Yesterday, Thursday, the Al-Quds Brigades also broadcasted images of its mortar shelling of Israeli occupation soldiers and vehicles that had penetrated Beit Hanoun, in addition to its shelling of the Nir Am settlement in the Gaza envelope with rockets.

It also broadcasted footage of its targeting of Israeli soldiers and their vehicles in the Netzarim axis, in cooperation with the Martyr Omar Al-Qassem Brigades.

Source: Al Jazeera