Published On 3/6/2026
The Israeli occupation army blew up homes and residential buildings in areas east of Gaza City and northeast of the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, hours after launching attacks that resulted in the death of 3 Palestinians and the injury of about 30.
Anatolia Agency reported that the occupation carried out 5 house bombings in the Gaza Strip, where violent explosions sounded in the eastern areas of Gaza City, resulting from bombing operations carried out by the Israeli army.
As for the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, eyewitnesses reported that the occupation army carried out bombings and blow-ups of homes and residential buildings in areas northeast of the city.
They stated that columns of smoke rose heavily from the targeted areas, while the sounds of explosions were heard from long distances, noting that the occupation intensified during the past days the bulldozing and burning operations in the areas it controls within the Gaza Strip.
The bombing operations coincided with heavy gunfire and lighting and smoke bombs in the areas adjacent to Hamad Hospital, southeast of the Rafah city highways, south of the Gaza Strip.
Seizure of lands in the West Bank
On the other hand, in the city of Bethlehem in the south of the occupied West Bank, the head of the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Committee, Moayed Shaaban, said that the Israeli occupation authorities issued a military order requiring the seizure of 300 dunams of Palestinian land in the Jabal al-Furaidis area, under the pretext of “expropriation for public purposes and development of an archaeological site.”
Shaaban confirmed that the decision is the third expropriation order issued by Israel since the beginning of this year, warning that it falls within a policy aimed at “imposing legal and administrative control over the Palestinian lands, and converting them to serve settlement projects.”
Shaaban pointed out that in 2024, the Israeli authorities declared about 171 dunums of land surrounding the site “state land,” adding that targeting Palestinian archaeological and heritage sites is not limited to controlling the land, but rather falls within attempts to reshape the Palestinian historical and cultural landscape, and link these sites to the settlement project.
He stressed that this Israeli policy is “one of the most dangerous tools used to impose the actual annexation of Palestinian territories, through unilateral measures that violate international law and international legitimacy resolutions.”
The occupation also issued an order to seize 42 dunums of land from the village of Tayasir, east of Tubas in the West Bank, under the pretext of “military purposes.”
In mid-February, the Israeli government ratified a decision allowing it to begin seizing vast Palestinian lands in the West Bank by registering them as “state property” for the first time since 1967, according to the official Israeli Broadcasting Authority.
This comes as part of an ongoing Israeli escalation in the West Bank since October 2023, which resulted in the death of 1,168 Palestinians and the injury of 12,666, in addition to the arrest of about 23,000 and the displacement of 33,000, according to data published by the Palestinian government media office on May 26.
