UN official: 2.2 million people are at risk of famine in Gaza
Georgios Petropoulos, the director of the United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza, says the months-long war has left 2.2 million people at risk of starvation in the Gaza Strip. “Everyone in Gaza needs aid now and the war must stop,” he told Al Jazeera. “We can only meet a third of the population’s need for clean drinking water.
Medical and humanitarian facilities in Gaza must be protected, he added, and stressed the need for humanitarian aid to flow freely into the blockaded territory.
Photos shows internally displaced sleeping in flooded tents
Journalist Suleiman al-Farra has posted photos on Instagram documenting the suffering of Palestinian children who live in displacement camps in the Gaza Strip, amid difficult humanitarian conditions. The photos showed the tents, which appear to lack the most basic necessities of life, leaking water, while children’s bedding and sleeping quarters were flooded.
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A makeshift camp set up by people who fled the battles between Israel and Hamas, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 27, 2024
Palestinian coms ministry condemns Israel’s targeting of its teams
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has denounced the continued targeting by Israeli forces of its telecommunications crews in the Gaza Strip. The most recent attack, it said, took place earlier today in the Sheikh Radwan area in Gaza City, where Israeli forces fired live bullets and a tank shell directly at one of the crews working at a station, resulting in injuries and damage to their vehicles.
This came despite prior coordination through international institutions with the Israeli army, the ministry said, as well as the visibility of the telecommunications logo on their vehicles. “The crews were able to reach the Sheikh Radwan station in advance and were deliberately targeted three times, which prevented the completion of their work and endangered their lives,” the ministry said.
The station is the main one in Gaza City and northern Gaza Strip, and has been out of service for about two consecutive months.
Waving white flag, Palestinian man killed by Israeli gunfire, video shows
A journalist has shared a video on Instagram documenting the moment Israeli forces shot and killed a civilian in the al-Mawasi area, near Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, three days ago. The video clip, verified by Al Jazeera and published by Ahmed Hijazee on his Instagram account, clearly shows Ramzi Abu Sahloul being shot in the chest while trying with four people to rescue a number of displaced people trapped in the area, including members of his family.
‘They besieged us, so we fled’: Civilians leave Khan Younis amid Israeli attacks
As we’ve been reporting, alarm is growing by the hour over the plight of civilians in Khan Younis amid the relentless Israeli attacks on the southern city.
New images show thousands of civilians, including children, fleeing the city on foot as an Israeli tank loomed behind them. “They besieged us, so we fled,” said Tahani al-Najjar, who left Khan Younis with her daughter. “We call on the UN to intervene, to stop the war. Enough of fear and terror!”
Gaza civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said the internally displaced people endured incessant cold rain and warned of the “spread of contagious diseases”.
An Israeli tank rolls along a position as Palestinians flee Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday
Surge in attacks in central and southern Gaza Strip
Worsening weather conditions makes it very difficult for people who were forced into displacement and staying in tents as flooding everywhere furthers their suffering and misery.
In less than 24 hours we saw air attacks on a residential home housing displaced Palestinians in the Geneina district – the central part of Rafah – where three people were killed and multiple people were rushed into the already overwhelmed Najjar Hospital. In Khan Younis, civil defence crews managed to get to targeted areas and collected and identified some of the bodies they found at the targeted sites. Nine people are already reported killed.
The Israeli military has heavy presence around the vicinity of Nasser Hospital and puts restrictions on the movements of the ambulances. Only three ambulance vehicles are available at Nasser Hospital and already have difficulty in dispatching into targeted areas including the western part of the city around the civility of al-Amal Hospital.
Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli attack in Rafah, Saturday
Gaza death toll reaches 26,257
At least 26,257 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed and 64,797 wounded since the start of Israel’s war, according to the latest update by the enclave’s Health Ministry. The ministry added that 174 Palestinians were killed and 310 injured in the past 24 hours.
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