Pitched battles took place in several key cities, including the militant stronghold of Jabalia.
Displaced Palestinians who fled their home because of Israel's military offensive sitting outside a tent in Rafah on May 13.
The armed wing of Hamas ally Islamic Jihad said its militants wounded and killed Israeli soldiers during fierce clashes in eastern Jabalia – the biggest of eight refugee camps built in Gaza after the 1948 Middle East Arab-Israeli war. “Over the past day, IDF troops in the area have engaged in intense battles with dozens of terrorist cells and eliminated a large number of terrorists,” it said on May 15. It added that some had fired towards the Israeli city of Sderot a day earlier.
In Rafah – the city in southernmost Gaza where more than a million Palestinians are sheltering from fighting elsewhere – troops continued to operate in the eastern Al-Salam and Jeneina neighbourhoods and also in the south-east, residents said. It earlier said a soldier had been killed in combat in the southern Gaza Strip on May 14. A reporter for public broadcaster Kan said this was the first military fatality in Rafah since the start of the ground operation there last week.
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