Hamas fighters, invading Israeli troops locked in gun battles on Gaza streets

Gaza, The Gulf Observer: Hamas fighters and invading Israeli troops are locked in fierce gun battles on the streets of Gaza’s second-biggest city, residents and witnesses said.

Residents of Khan Younis reported intensifying gun battles in the centre and eastern districts of the southern city.

Gaza health officials said 12 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli strike on a house in the city. Israel has lost 132 soldiers in the fighting inside Gaza since it invaded the territory.

The fresh fighting comes as United Nations delayed a vote on a bid to boost aid deliveries to the Palestinian enclave facing a humanitarian disaster.

Israel’s land invasion and indiscriminate bombardment has left the coastal enclave in ruins, brought widespread hunger and homelessness, and killed nearly 20,000 Palestinians, according to enclave’s officials.