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About 65 percent of Gaza’s roads damaged: UN agency

The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) says about 65 percent of Gaza’s roads have been damaged.

Approximately 1,100km (683.5 miles) of roads have been destroyed, 350km (217.5 miles) severely affected and 1,470km (913.5 miles) of roads have been moderately affected, according to satellite imagery analysis by UNOSAT.

The satellite images were collected on May 29, the agency said.

Israel’s military operations would change ‘tactically, but not strategically’

The Israeli military operations would change “tactically, but absolutely not strategically”, Israel’s Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi says following Netanyahu’s remarks that “intense fighting in Gaza is nearly over”.

“Today the army is everywhere in the Strip, the fact that the prime minister said that in two weeks the intensity will decrease does not mean that we will stop the fighting, but the operations will change tactically, but absolutely not strategically.”

At least 37,626 killed in Gaza in Israeli strikes since October 7: Ministry

At least 37,626 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its military offensive on October 7 in the wake of deadly Hamas attack inside Israel, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

The ministry added that another 86,098 people have been wounded in more than eight months of relentless Israeli attacks.


Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics carry into an ambulance the rescued body of a man who was killed during bombardment in the area of Shakoush northwest of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip