Israel continues attacks on Gaza on second day of Eid ul Fitr

Israeli forces continue attacks on Palestinians observing second day of Eid al-Fitr in Gaza, killing at least nine people, including many children.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) has recovered the bodies of 15 emergency workers, a week after their vehicles came under fire from Israeli forces near Rafah in southern Gaza.

A spokesman for the Israeli military has issued a new forced displacement order for the southern city of Rafah, warning that soldiers will soon “resume intense combat operations” there.

In a post on X, Avichay Adraee said people in most of Rafah and the nearby areas of Nassr and ash-Shawka should immediately flee to al-Mawasi.

Israel’s Army Radio described the order as the most “extensive evacuation since the resumption of fighting”.

In a post on X, Jonathan Whittall, the head of UN’s OCHA in Palestine described seeing Israel fire on fleeing civilians as he and others travelled to south Gaza to look for the missing medics that Israeli forces killed in Rafah.

“While traveling to the area on the fifth day we encountered hundreds of civilians fleeing under gunfire,” Whitall wrote. “We witnessed a woman shot in the back of the head. When a young man tried to retrieve her, he too was shot. We were able to recover her body using our UN vehicle.”

He also posted a video of the shootings, showing at least two people falling to the ground amid the sound of gunfire. “Another one shot, another one shot, another one shot,” one person is heard saying.

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