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UN relief agency says one of its aid truck was hit by Israeli fire


A view of a truck carrying food that, according to Thomas White, Director of UNRWA Affairs Gaza, was hit by Israeli naval gunfire on February 5

The United Nations relief agency in Gaza, UNRWA, says one of its trucks waiting to take aid to northern Gaza was hit by Israeli fire on Monday.

Thomas White, Director of UNRWA Affairs in Gaza, posted a photograph of the damaged truck on X, saying: “#Gaza this morning a food convoy waiting to move into Northern Gaza was hit by Israeli naval gunfire - thankfully no one was injured.”

Scenes of wreckage emerge in Jabalya as IDF intensifies offensive in central and northern Gaza

Video shows the wreckage of the Palestine Red Crescent Society headquarters in Jabalya, northern Gaza, as the Israeli military spread its offensive across multiple parts the enclave. The scale of destruction was illustrated in the new footage published by the PCRS on Monday, showing the wreckage of its headquarters in the neighborhood.

Israeli strikes hit infrastructure in both Deir Al-Balah, in central Gaza, and the coastal town of Al Mawasi, in the south, in recent weeks, causing multiple casualties, according to the PRCS and the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health in Gaza. At least 14 Palestinians were killed, including two children and four women, and many others injured due to airstrikes on Al-Shuhadaa Mosque in Deir Al-Balah on Sunday, according to a doctor at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital.

Video obtained by CNN from the western part of Deir Al-Balah showed destruction at the mosque, with civilians trying to rescue people from under the rubble.

"Everyone is afraid": Humanitarian worker cautions Israel's military push into Rafah

Palestinian civilians are "afraid" of Israel's military pressing into the southern city of Rafah, according to a relief worker, as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) expands its offensive into all parts of the territory. “Everyone is afraid of the expanding of the ground operation in Rafah,” Raed Al-Nims, Media Director of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Gaza, said on Monday.

It came after Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said IDF ground troops would "soon reach" Rafah in the far south — where more than half of Gaza's entire population have been forcibly displaced since the start of the war. In recent weeks, the IDF has ramped up its deadly assault on the southern city of Khan Younis, where local hospitals and a UN shelter came under fierce bombardment.

Gaza media office warns IDF ground offensive in Rafah would be "disaster" for displaced Palestinians


A crowded street in Rafah, Gaza, on February 1.

The director of the Hamas-run Government Media Office told CNN on Monday the expansion of the Israeli military's ground campaign into Rafah, in southern Gaza, would "cause a real disaster" inside the Palestinian enclave. Israeli troops are not yet on the ground in the southern city bordering Egypt, Ismail Al-Thawabta said. “Their entry into Rafah will cause a real disaster on top of the disasters to which the Gaza Strip is exposed."

Last week, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would head from Khan Younis into Rafah to "eliminate terror elements that threaten us." Israel's bombardment has displaced more than 2.3 million people in Gaza -- nearly the whole population -- according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. More than half of those are trying to shelter in Rafah.

Al Thawabta, of the Government Media Office, said there were 1.3 million displaced people in Rafah. Palestinians have been forced to flee to Rafah from northern areas since the early days of the war, after the IDF instructed people to move south as it advanced from the north.

CNN obtained video over the weekend showing the tent camp in the shadow of Gaza’s walled border with Egypt, underlining that there is nowhere further south in the strip for people to flee.