New wave of Israeli displacement forces people to ‘flee under shelling’: UN
The latest Israeli order for the evacuation of central and western areas of Gaza City affects “tens of thousands of people”, while patients and staff were forced to flee three of Gaza’s hospitals in one week, the UN said.
Between Tuesday and Monday afternoon, 182 Palestinians were killed and 458 injured in Israeli attacks from air, land and sea on the Gaza Strip, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also reports in its latest situation update.
OCHA adds that assessments over the last 10 days at sites hosting new waves of displaced people found “critical levels of need across all sectors” and that nine out of every 10 people in Gaza are now estimated to be displaced.
“New waves of displacement are mostly affecting people who have already been displaced multiple times, only to find themselves forced to flee again under shelling,” the UN said.
People walk past rubble and damaged buildings in the Tuffah district east of Gaza City on July 8
Overnight Israeli attacks leave dead and wounded across Gaza
As we have reported recently, three people have been killed and three injured in an Israeli attack on Gaza City’s Lababidi street in the Nasser neighbourhood. In other overnight attacks, several people were reported killed after an Israeli fighter jet attacked a house in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah region, Wafa reports.
Israeli artillery also attacked sites in the west of Rafah City as well as areas in the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Wafa said. Casualties were also reported from an attack on a school sheltering displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
At least 16 people killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza
Israel has killed at least 16 Palestinian civilians and injured dozens across Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency.
Seven people have been killed in an Israeli air attack on a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp, medical sources told Wafa. Six others were killed in a house on Jalaa Street near al-Ghafri Junction, in northern Gaza City. An infant was retrieved alive from under the rubble there. Three others were killed and three more injured in the Lababidi area of northern Gaza City.
A child and a number of injured people were rescued from a bombed house on the al-Nafaq Street in Gaza City.
The western areas of the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood in southwestern Gaza City have been targeted by Israeli artillery shelling and gunfire from Apache helicopters.
Israeli air attack kills nine people including at least 5 children in central Gaza’s Bureij
At least five people have been killed and several injured in an Israeli air attack on the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
Local sources told the Wafa news agency that Israeli bombs targeted a gathering of civilians near the Abu Rasas roundabout in the camp.
We now know from witnesses that all of the dead are children who were playing in the street when the Israeli strike targeted the the camp. Video footage verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad showed the arrival of the dead and injured children at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah.
The footage documented the grim moments of fathers saying goodbye to their dead children.
Gaza media office: 17 killed in earlier strike on family home in Nuseirat
Earlier today, we reported on an Israeli army attack on the home of the Freih family in the central Gaza refugee camp of Nuseirat, which our correspondent said had killed seven people.
In a statement, the Gaza Government Media Office now says that 17 members of the family were killed in this attack, including 14 women and children. This attack brings the death toll from Israeli attacks on central Gaza refugee camps to 29 within the last few hours, the ministry added.
The aftermath of an Israeli strike on a Nuseirat home
Gaza Health Ministry: At least 38,243 killed in Israel’s war on Gaza
The ministry has given its daily update on casualties in the Gaza Strip since Israel began its war on October 7, 2023, with at least 38,243 killed and 88,033 people wounded. Its statement also says that at least 50 people have been killed in the last 24 hours and 130 wounded, as Israel continues its bombing and ground operations across the Strip.
