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SvennoJ on 18 May 2024
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One killed in northern Gaza attack

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report one person was also wounded when an Israeli drone fired missiles at the Faisal bin Fahd School, west of the Jabalia refugee camp.

Israeli forces have stepped up their attacks on northern Gaza in recent days, displacing more than 100,000 people, according to United Nations figures.


Israeli military expanding Rafah operation to west of war-torn city

We are seeing more people forced to flee the city of Rafah. We are looking at 630,000 people who have already been forced into fleeing that city and into the central part of the Strip.

The Israeli military, in a statement, talked about controlling, effectively right now, half of the distance of the Philadelphia Corridor [ a 14km or 8.7-mile-long strip of land that represents the entirety of the border area between Gaza and Egypt] … and they are only about 5km [3 miles] away from the coastal road.

That means an expansion of their military operation. Their manoeuvres will include the western part of Rafah, where there are thousands of Palestinians – displaced families – sheltering there since the initial weeks of the war.

That means we are going to be seeing way more waves of people fleeing the western part of the city. They are being forced into more displacement to the central area of Gaza, mainly in Deir el-Balah.


Video shows hardship of people displaced as Israel attacks Rafah

Human Rights Watch’s Emina Cerimovic, associate director of disability rights for the New York-based organisation, has shared a video showing the dire conditions Palestinians face after their forced displacement from Rafah.

The short video clip was sent to Cerimovic by Rajab, a 49-year-old physically disabled Palestinian man and father of seven, shows families trying to build temporary shelters on Gaza’s windswept coast.

Rajab told Cerimovic that he has now been displaced eight times in his search for safety as Israel presses on with its war in the Palestinian territory. “I am very tired and exhausted due to the suffering, displacement, exhaustion, exhaustion, thinking, and escaping death,” he told Cerimovic.


Palestinians killed and injured as Israeli drones, fighter jets, artillery pound Jabalia

Artillery shelling of the Jabalia refugee camp was continuous throughout the night, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report, while a drone attack and missiles fired by jet fighters killed at least five people and injured others in two separate raids on the Jabalia area.

Several missiles were also fired towards the Faisal bin Fahd School, located west of the camp, which killed one person and injured others.

Southern Gaza also came under attack with reports of two killed and several wounded following strikes on houses in central Rafah and the Ma’an areas of Khan Younis.

Number of child deaths as starvation grips Gaza likely ‘tip of the iceberg’: Analyst

Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy and advocacy at Save the Children International, said the official number of children who have died of malnutrition amid a growing famine in Gaza likely under-represents the true scale of tragedy.

“Back in March, the UN warned that famine was looming in Gaza. Over the last couple of months, we have not seen aid agencies granted the humanitarian access to stave off that famine,” Saieh told Al Jazeera.

“We’ve seen at least 28 children die of malnutrition and disease and we know that is probably the tip of the iceberg. These are the children that managed to get to medical facilities,” Saieh said.

“The hospital system in Gaza has all but collapsed. We have paediatricians in field hospitals in Gaza who said that they are seeing cases of malnutrition. They are seeing hepatitis, jaundice, gastroenteritis. These are horrific challenges facing children. And we just do not have supplies or enough personnel to deal with this.”

Last edited by SvennoJ - on 18 May 2024