Dispatch from Gaza, June 4, 2025

Today is Wednesday June 4, 2025. Local time in Gaza is 9PM. Here is a summary of what’s been happening since 12AM (chronological order):

  • Israel detonated remotely controlled explosive-laden armored personnel carriers to destroy houses in Tuffah Neighborhood in Gaza City.

  • a fire belt in Bani Suhaila east of Khan Younis. Note: fire belt is the kind of attack when Israeli warplanes drop many missiles on a single location

  • blowing up of houses in Qararah area, north of Khan Younis.

  • artillery shelling of Tuffah neighborhood.

  • intense air strikes on Khan Younis (1:34AM)

  • a drone air strike west of Khan Younis. Iyyad Abu Rahma, 35, was killed (2:57AM)

  • air strike strikes on Tuffah neighborhood (7:37AM)

  • two air strikes on Shujaeeyah neighborhood (7:59AM)

  • some people got injured in an air strike on Asdaa area, west of Khan Younis.

  • five air strikes on Tuffah neighborhood (8:13AM)

  • five people got killed in a drone air strike on tents on the grounds of a school shelter west of Khan Younis (8:28AM) Name of the school is al-Hinnawi School.

  • an air strike on an apartment middle of Khan Younis. Injuries reported. (8:38AM) Note: later a boy named Adeeb Abu Taha was reported killed (9:37AM)

  • The number of those killed in the school air strike is 10 (8:56AM)

  • Artillery shelling west of Beit Lahia.

  • a drone air strike close to al-Aqsa Hospital in Der el-Balah (9:19AM)

  • it’s reported that a suicide drone exploded above al-Aqsa Hospital (9:27AM)

  • two people got killed in an air strike on Drimili family house in Sabra neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

  • the number of those killed in the air strike on the school is now 14 (9:42AM)

  • a helicopter opens fire south of Khan Younis.

  • another suicide drone explodes above al-Aqsa Hospital (9:43AM)

  • a third suicide drone explodes above al-Aqsa Hospital (10:05AM)

  • the bodies of three people are transported from Twam area, north Gaza (10:19AM) Their names are: Ahmad al-Silawi, Tawfiq al-Shrafi, and Iyyad Zidan.

  • Israeli tanks retreat from some areas in Beit Lahia.

  • two people got killed in an air strike in Jabalia (10:29AM)

  • at least one person was killed in an air strike in Nuseirat Camp (10:37AM). His name is Mahmoud Abu Nar.

  • 10 of the people who were killed in the air strike on the school in Khan Younis are from Abu Hadayid family (10:47AM)

  • a quadcopter drops some grenades around al-Rafi shelter in Jabalia.

  • intense artillery shelling in Beit Lahia targeting people who tried to return to their houses (11:10AM)

  • helicopter opens fire at people in Beit Lahia (11:11AM)

  • Two people got killed in an air strike in Abasan Town, east of Khan Younis.

  • two people got killed in an air strike on Shaath Building in Khan Younis (11:53). Their names are Salem Shaath and Baraa Shaath. They were cousins.

  • an explosion in Shati Camp, west of Gaza City (12:30PM)

  • Israel released 8 people.

  • witness account from inside the European Hospital in Khan Younis: The soldiers sent a quadcopter inside the hospital and questioned people before the soldiers invaded the hospital and told the patients and doctors they would be all evicted.

  • 4 people got killed in an air strike around the Sheikh Redwan Cemetery (2:05PM)

  • a 13-year-old girl was killed in an air strike in Der el-Balah. Her name is Aseel Abu Daher. (2:20PM

  • an air strike targeting a crowd of people in front of a school in Shati Camp (2:20PM).

  • two killed people were transported to Shifa Hospital: Suheib al-Rantisi and Maher Zaqout (4:23PM)

  • two killed people were transported to Nasser Hospital: Raed Odah and Hamza Abu Qirshin (4:31)

  • a boy got killed in an air strike in the Japanese neighborhood, west of Khan Younis (4:59PM)

  • three people got killed in an air strike on a tent in Khan Younis (5:03PM): Zakariyya Shubair, Razan al-Farra (child), Shahad al-Qa’oud (child). (5:16PM)

  • artillery shelling east of Jabalia and east of Gaza City (7:10PM)

  • intense bombing west of Khan Younis (8:17PM)

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