‘All Gaza citizens are drinking unsafe water’
We have more lines from the Health Ministry in Gaza which warned today over the spread of diseases and epidemics due to sewage overflows, the piling up of waste in streets and camps for displaced people and the spread of insects in the besieged territory.
“Because of the closure of the public health laboratory and the inability to test drinking water, all citizens of the Gaza Strip are drinking unsafe water that puts their lives at risk,” the ministry said in a statement.
It attributed this to Israel’s refusal to allow the use of chlorine or any alternative for treating drinking water.
Two Palestinians wounded by live ammunition near Jenin
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says it is transporting the two people to the hospital, who were wounded near the Jalama Israeli army checkpoint, north of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
One man killed in northwestern Israel: Army
The Israeli army radio says one man was shot dead by Israeli police in the Jadeidi-Makr village, northwestern Israel. It said officers fatally wounded the suspect as he pulled out what appeared to be a sharp object.
The circumstances of the incident were being investigated, it added.
‘Six months felt like six years’: released Palestinian prisoner
Omar Assaf, a Palestinian activist who was jailed by Israel for six months, says conditions in his cell were so dire and food portions so meagre that he lost 29kg while behind bars.
“The amount of food we would get in prison was not enough. It was merely enough to keep us from dying,” Assaf, from Ramallah, told Al Jazeera upon his release. “Israeli guards would give us two pieces of tomato for 10 people.”
He added, “These six months felt like six years. My fellow Palestinians and I weren’t detainees or political prisoners. We were hostages.”
Since October 7, Israel has arrested 8,480 Palestinians throughout the occupied West Bank, with many held illegally under administrative detention with no charges brought against them.
