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Palestinians in Gaza surviving on just 3 litres of water per day, says the UN
Clean drinking water has become one of the rarest and most valuable commodities in Gaza. Most Palestinians in Gaza are getting only a fifth of the water they need to survive, about three litres each day for all of their needs, according to the United Nations.
Much of that is polluted and salty, leading to a public health crisis due to the spread of diseases.
What’s happening at the Kamal Adwan Hospital?
Israeli forces are again attacking hospitals in Gaza, including Kamal Adwan in the northern town of Beit Lahiya.
Here’s what you need to know:
- The latest assault on Kamal Adwan Hospital began on Monday, according to the Wafa news agency, with artillery attacks on the building and missiles striking the emergency department.
- The attack forced dozens of medical staff and patients to flee, with videos of the evacuation showing one man cradling a newborn baby wrapped in blue cloth and an elderly man being bumped on a wheeled stretcher along the shattered streets.
- The Palestinian Health Ministry said there were approximately 150 medical staff and dozens of patients at Kamal Adwan when it came under attack, including ICU patients and newborns in incubators. It said the evacuation took place under Israeli fire.
- The WHO said Kamal Adwan is the largest partially functional hospital in northern Gaza and the only one providing haemodialysis. It said the evacuation of health workers and patients would make it nonfunctional, further depleting health services.
- Israeli forces had earlier laid siege to the facility and raided it in December last year, causing extensive damage and arresting many health workers. That attack resulted in the death of at least eight patients.
Palestinians evacuate Kamal Adwan Hospital following an Israeli attack in Beit Lahiya, on May 21
Casualties mount as Israeli jets, artillery, quadcopter drones attack Gaza overnight
The Gaza Strip was hit by another night of Israeli air strikes, artillery fire and drone attacks that resulted in casualties from Jabalia in the north to Rafah city in the south, according to the Palestinian state news agency Wafa.
We reported earlier on the overnight attack that killed 10 people, including a pregnant woman and her unborn child, in the al-Zawayda area near to the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
Wafa reports that six people were also killed in a missile strike on the home of the Abu Zaida family in the Faluga area of Jabalia, in northern Gaza, while Israeli shelling injured several people in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood of Gaza city.
Israeli warplanes also attacked the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City, killing at least two people and leaving an unknown number injured.
In southern Rafah city, several people were injured in an Israel artillery strike on the home of the Farhat family in the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood, while jet fighters and quadcopter drones attacked the centre of the city.
Israeli military says it has killed ‘significant’ Hamas operative
The Israeli military says it “struck and eliminated” a Hamas antitank missile operative in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis city.
It identified the fighter as Ahmed Yasser Alkara, describing him as a “significant” Hamas member who participated in the October 7 attacks on southern Israel and carried out attacks on Israeli soldiers in Gaza. Also killed in the strike targeting Alkara were Hamas fighter Saib Raed Abu Riba and Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s Ans Muhammad Abu Ragila, according to the Israeli military.
The military also said it carried out an air strike killing five Hamas fighters sheltering in a school in Gaza City.
Attacks continue across Gaza as Israel presses offensive
Over the past 24 hours, the Israeli military has been pressing on with its military offensive across multiple areas, including az-Zawayda, just 3km from our location in Deir el-Balah.
It is a town in the middle of Gaza where Palestinians have been told to seek refuge. In the latest attack on a gathering of residents, at least 10 Palestinians have been reported killed, including a pregnant woman.
Attacks have continued in other parts of the Gaza Strip, including the north of the territory in the Jabalia refugee camp where six Palestinians have been reported killed. At least 300 houses have been destroyed in the ongoing military bombardment of that densely populated area.
Palestinians in central Gaza sift through rubble, mourn after Israeli bombardment
Palestinians inspect the damage after the latest Israeli attacks
People gather outside a damaged house in az-Zawayda
Hospitals in northern Gaza under attack
More than 1,400 Israeli academics sign petition calling for end to Gaza war
Academics and administrators from higher education institutions across Israel have signed a petition calling on the Israeli government to end its war on Gaza and secure the return of captives held in the Palestinian enclave.
The petition, titled “A Call on the Israeli Government to End the War and Ensure the Return of the Hostages”, states that the end of the war and the return of captives are “moral imperatives that align with Israel’s interests”.
The signatories add that while it supports Israel’s right to self-defence, “this initial purpose has been exhausted” and the government does not have the right to “wage a war without a realistic end or one aimed at the political survival of the leadership”.
Only 30-35% of Hamas fighters killed since October 7: Report
US government intelligence indicates that only 30-35 percent of Hamas fighters have been killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza since October 7, while 65 percent of the group’s tunnels remain intact, news outlet Politico reports.
Citing a person familiar with US intelligence, the outlet says Biden officials have also expressed concern that Hamas has been able to recruit thousands of new fighters over the last several months.
Last week, US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said Joe Biden’s administration does not believe that Israel’s stated strategy of pursuing “total victory” over Hamas in Gaza is feasible.
