Seas of tents in Khan Younis as 1 million flee Rafah
An informal tent camp now sprawl beside the ocean and in between destroyed buildings in Khan Younis
Khan Younis is the closest city to Rafah, where the UN says just 65,000 Palestinians now remain, after more than one million fled Israel’s ground invasion since early May
Outbreak of ‘alien’ diseases in central Gaza
We just went inside Al-Aqsa Hospital, moving from one department to another.
We spoke to medical staff who described the outbreak of diseases as “alien”. The diseases are spreading among displaced people due to their poor living conditions, contaminated water, lack of sanitation and hygiene and the rising heat. The Israeli military destroyed the vast majority of Gaza’s sanitation facilities. It’s easy to walk along any of the roads here and see sewage.
This is all aggravating the spread of diseases, particularly infectious diseases among women, children and those who have health complications.
Inside Al-Aqsa Hospital, there is unanimous agreement that it is not a hospital any more. It’s not suitable for medical services, it’s not suitable to save lives.
‘The dead are the lucky ones’: People in Gaza say the wounded suffer immensely
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Palestinians in Gaza have told them that death is preferable to being wounded in Israel’s war on the territory because the injured “suffer so acutely due to the Israeli authorities’ blockade of lifesaving aid”.
“UN member states should do more to prevent further atrocities,” the rights group said, in a statement to the UN’s Human Rights Council on Wednesday. “No more civilians should be killed or wounded by unlawful attacks, die from malnutrition and dehydration, and be deprived of access to medical care,” HRW said.
‘We are all poorer’ due to Israel’s destruction of Gaza: UNICEF
James Elder, a spokesman for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has said that “we are all poorer” for Israel’s assault on Gaza and has described Israel’s relentless bombardment of the Palestinian territory as an attack on “our shared humanity”.
“We have all lost. The attacks on hospitals, the attacks on homes, and the defence of these attacks. These are attacks on our shared humanity,” he said in a video, posted on X from Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
“Gazans cannot turn off the TV or close their eyes to these horrors, and neither should we,” he said.
