Eight Palestinians have been killed in multiple Israeli strikes across Gaza, medical sources said, as the Israeli army continued demolishing residential buildings in western Rafah.

In Rafah, the Israeli army also continued demolishing residential buildings in the western part of the city, particularly in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood, where it has been carrying out a military offensive since March 23.

The area has been under siege as the army attempts to expand its control and establish what it calls a “buffer security zone.”

A video released by The New York Times has exposed a deliberate lie by the Israeli army regarding the killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics in southern Gaza on March 23.

In its initial statement and after international outrage, the Israeli army claimed that the vehicles were advancing “suspiciously” from its forces "without headlights, or emergency signals, (and) their movement was not coordinated in advance."

The army claimed that nine members from Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups were killed in the attack.

However, the footage contradicted Israeli claims and presented new evidence that the vehicles involved in the attack were clearly marked and had their emergency lights on.

The video was captured by one of the medics who was killed in the attack and was found among the 15 medics buried, including eight Red Crescent workers and five Civil Defense personnel, in a mass grave in Gaza.

At least five more Palestinians have been killed in multiple Israeli strikes across Gaza, sources have said, as the Israeli army continued demolishing residential buildings in western Rafah.

A medical source said that three Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike targeting a community kitchen distributing food in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

In a separate attack, a Palestinian was killed, and his wife and child were injured after their apartment was bombed in central Khan Younis.

In Gaza City, a Palestinian woman was killed in an Israeli strike on the Zeitoun neighborhood, located in the southeast of the city.

Witnesses said Israel resumed heavy shelling on the al-Shujaiya neighborhood in eastern Gaza at dawn, firing extensively into the area.

The Israeli government is sponsoring violence by illegal settlers to displace Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, two rights groups have said.

A report by Yesh Din and Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI), two Israeli groups, said the Israeli government "is responsible for the commission of the war crime of forcible transfer of Palestinians in the West Bank."

"This crime is committed with the state’s support, by its agents or citizens," it said.

Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, has warned that the lives of Israeli captives are at risk as Israel orders all Palestinians to flee from the areas.

"Half of the living Israeli prisoners are located in areas in which the Israeli occupation army has requested to be evacuated in recent days," spokesman Abu Obaida said in a statement.

He noted that his group decided "not to transfer these prisoners from these areas, and to keep them under strict security measures, which are extremely dangerous to their lives," without disclosing further information.

"If the enemy is concerned about the lives of these prisoners, they must immediately negotiate their evacuation or release," he said.

Abu Obaida held Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s extremist government responsible "for the lives of the prisoners," adding if Israel committed to a January ceasefire "most of them would probably be in their homes today."

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The Israeli government is sponsoring violence by illegal settlers to displace Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, two rights groups have said.

A report by Yesh Din and Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI), two Israeli groups, said the Israeli government "is responsible for the commission of the war crime of forcible transfer of Palestinians in the West Bank."

"This crime is committed with the state’s support, by its agents or citizens," it said.

"In less than two years, about 100,000 dunams (24,710 acres) of land east of Allon Road have been almost completely emptied of the Palestinians who lived on it for decades," according to the report.

It added the displacement of the Palestinians "was not a voluntary departure, but a forcible transfer effected by a combination of factors: years of institutional oppression, daily physical violence, invasive psychological terror, and catastrophic economic harm."

Thousands have joined rallies in different areas across Syria to protest the Israeli ground attacks in Daraa province which left at least nine people dead.

Activists in southern Suwayda city, where the majority of the population is from the Druze religious community, held a vigil in solidarity with their people in Daraa province, condemning Israeli aggression on the province a few days ago, according to a statement by the Suwayda governor's office.

"Syrian blood is one, and the defence of the country is a must on every free Syrian," read one of the banners during the vigil.

The activists also slammed the international silence on the Israeli aggression.

Six Palestinians, including a young girl, have been killed in Israeli air strikes targeting residential homes and civilian gatherings in Gaza, as the Israeli army unrelentingly continues its genocidal war on the Palestinian enclave.

A medical source told Anadolu that three people were killed in an air strike on a home in Rafah, while two were killed in a strike on a group of people in Khan Younis in the south.

A girl was killed in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City, as the army targeted her home.

Witnesses, meanwhile, reported intense strikes on the Al-Sanati area in Abasan town in eastern Khan Younis, though no casualties were confirmed.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to escalate attacks on Gaza as he tries to implement US President Donald Trump's plan to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the enclave.