Ma'an – Two Al-Qassam Brigades fighters were killed in clashes with Israeli forces in Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip on Friday. The deaths of Muhammad Awad Al-Kafarna and Muhammad Naser Al-Kafarna, during the dawn clashes, bring the number of dead to 11 in the past 24 hours in the coastal enclave. Eyewitnesses said that Israeli forces fired seven missiles at groups of resistance fighters as they penetrated three kilometers inside Beit Hanoun. More than 25 citizens were also injured in the incursion.
Nine people died on Thursday during Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip. Twenty-five-year-old Abdallah Qishta, a Fatah member detained by Hamas, died after Israeli helicopters launched three missiles at the place he was being held. Al-Qassam Brigades member twenty-three-year-old Yasser Hillis died when Israeli warplanes targeted the Al-Shaja'eyah neighbourhood of Gaza City.
Five people from the same family were killed when Israeli artillery fired missiles at the family's home in Bani Suhayla in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday. Karima Fayyad, 52, and her sons Ahmad, 32, and Sami, 32, her 15-year-old daughter Asma and her nephew Muhammad, 18, died in the attack. Two Al-Qassam Brigades members also died on Thursday. They were Muneer Barham, 20, and Barham Abu Lihya, also in his twenties.