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SvennoJ on 24 June 2024
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Death toll rises for Israeli attack on crowd in Khan Younis

At least 10 people have now been reported dead following an Israeli attack near the Bani Suheila traffic circle in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency.

We reported earlier that Israeli forces attacked Palestinians who had gathered as commercial and aid trucks came through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing in southern Gaza.

Security guards who were accompanying the aid trucks are among the dead.


At least 5 killed in Israeli attack on Maghazi refugee camp

Earlier, we reported that an Israeli strike on a house in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza had resulted in an unknown number of casualties.

The Wafa news agency now reports that at least five people have been killed, including three children, and several others have been injured.


Israeli military strikes school in Gaza City, killing at least 6: Report

The Israeli military has bombed a school housing displaced people in the centre of Gaza City, killing at least six people, according to local media.

Several people were also injured in the strike in northern Gaza, which hit the Abdel-Fanah Hammoud School in Gaza City’s Daraj area.



At least 15 killed in 3 separate strikes across Gaza City

At least 15 people have been killed in three separate strikes across Gaza City, local media is reporting.

Earlier we reported that the Israeli military had killed six people after carrying out an attack on the Abdel-Fanah Hammoud School in Gaza City’s Daraj area.

Local media is also reporting that the Israeli military has carried out deadly strikes on the Asmaa School in the Beach camp, and a house belonging to the al-Zamili family in Shuja’iya neighbourhood of Gaza City.


The child victims of Israel’s weaponisation of hunger in Gaza

These are the 'lucky' ones that made it to a sort of functioning hospital


A malnourished Palestinian baby is held while receiving treatment at the International Medical Corps field hospital in Deir el-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 22


Jori Al-Areer, a Palestinian girl who suffers from cancer and malnutrition, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on June 24


A Palestinian mother, Nada, feeds her son Amjad Al-Kanoo, who suffers from malnutrition, while her other son Ahmed, who suffers from cancer, sits next to her while they wait to be transferred for treatment outside Gaza, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis on June 24


Jana Ayad, a malnourished Palestinian girl, is helped by her mother as she receives treatment at the International Medical Corps field hospital in Deir el-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip, on June 22


Palestinian children patient at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on June 24

 

Extended families ‘wiped out’ leaves no one to take in Palestinian children: Doctor

Here’s more from Dr Tanya Haj-Hassan, a paediatric physician from Canada who worked in Gaza, on the Save the Children report that said 21,000 Palestinian kids are unaccounted for since Israel’s war on the territory began.

Haj-Hassan said that multiple generations of families are being killed in Israeli attacks, meaning there is no extended family left to take in Palestinian children who have lost their parents.

Gaza is “a very beautiful, family-centred culture where extended families remain very close”, she said, so “normally, prior to October, what would happen with these children is they would be taken in by extended family”.

Haj-Hassan says displacement has seen sometimes up to 150 members of the same family staying in a building together.

“So if that building is hit, that wipes out not only the child’s mother, father, siblings, first uncles, aunts, it also wipes out all of their entire extended family.”