Fierce fighting rocks Gaza after US warning of post-war 'anarchy'

Clashes also raged in northern and central areas of the besieged Gaza Strip, AFP correspondents and witnesses said, as Israel prepared to mark a sombre Independence Day, beginning Monday night, more than seven months into the war sparked by Hamas's October 7 attack. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a Memorial Day event that "our war of independence is not over yet. It continues even today ... We are determined to win this struggle." AFP correspondents reported helicopter strikes and heavy artillery shelling in the east of Rafah...