Qatar said on Wednesday night that the supplies had arrived via the border crossing with Egypt, along with a shipment of humanitarian aid for Palestinian civilians, under an agreement it had brokered between Israel and Hamas.
The troops had “eliminated dozens of terrorists in close-quarters combat and with the assistance of tank fire and air support”, and raided the “Martyrs’ Outpost” of the Southern Battalion of Hamas’s Khan Younis Brigade, it added.
It did not say where the fighting took place, but Hamas’s military wing reported that its fighters had fired at Israeli soldiers and shelled a tank and armoured bulldozer in the southern Batn al-Samin area on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, civilians have been fleeing the city as the fighting closes in, including many displaced families sheltering at Nasser Hospital in the west of Khan Younis, which is Gaza’s largest functioning health facility.
According to a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) surgeon, there was panic at the hospital after Israeli forces heavily bombed a nearby area on Tuesday night without issuing an evacuation order.
In a video recorded during a visit on Tuesday, MSF head of mission Leo Cans warned that the situation at Nasser Hospital was “catastrophic”, with “way too many patients for the staff to handle”.
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