Israel offensive pushes on with thousands displaced

CGTN Europe

Street fighting and air attacks are intensifying in #Jabalia, northern #Gaza, where many civilians are reported to have been killed on Saturday.  Palestinian media say Israeli forces hit residential buildings near a hospital, while #Israeli military pushes into the southern city of Rafah in Gaza. Associated Press correspondent Sam Mednick is in Tel Aviv.

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00:00 Well Israel has said that it is continuing these attacks as it pushes forward in Rafa as well as in the north

00:05 It said on Saturday that it struck a militant compound in eastern Rafa

00:11 It said that it also dismantled some rocket launchers there

00:14 And it said that it killed a key commander with the Palestinian Jihad group

00:18 It also said that is people in Jabali were having intense battles that they were ongoing in

00:24 Jabali and that they were continuing now these strikes have killed several people in the last 24 hours as well as on Saturday

00:31 Medical workers said that in the Al Nusra refugee camp at least five people were killed as well in the Kuwaiti Hospital

00:37 Medical staff there said that in the last 24 hours at least six bodies have been brought into the hospital

00:42 Three people were killed they said in an airstrike in

00:45 Central Gaza and this is displacing hundreds of thousands of people in southern city of Rafa at least

00:52 300,000 people have been displaced from this fighting in the north. There's been about a hundred thousand people

00:56 I spoke to an aid worker who was just in Gaza. He said the situation was just absolutely awful

01:02 He called it an absolute mess. He said people were vulnerable and that they were extremely scared

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