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SvennoJ on 16 July 2024
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Traumatised Palestinians in shock after Israel strikes UN shelter

At least 25 Palestinians were killed and more than 70 others wounded in the attack on the UN’s al-Razi school in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, according to reports.



The school was the sixth UNRWA school in Gaza to have been attacked in Israeli air raids in 10 days. The UN agency said that 539 people sheltering in UNRWA facilities have been killed in Israeli attacks since October.




Israeli military bombs home, mosque in Gaza

At least two Palestinians have been killed and others injured, including children, as Israeli aircraft bombed a home in Gaza City this morning, the Wafa news agency reports.

Israeli military aircraft also targeted a mosque north of the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, causing injuries, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report.

Translation: Injuries as a result of the occupation aircraft targeting Abdullah Azzam Mosque, north of the Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.

 

Israeli military bombs home in az-Zawayda, killing at least 7: Report

Local media is reporting that the Israeli military has bombed a home in the az-Zawayda area of central Gaza, killing at least seven people and injuring many more. The house, which belonged to the Diab family, was reportedly sheltering as many as 70 people.


700,000 face health ‘crisis’ as water treatment stops in central Gaza city

More than 700,000 people could be at risk from a “health and environmental crisis” as wastewater pumping stations in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah city have stopped working due to a lack of fuel, local officials say.

In a statement, city authorities said stocks of fuel necessary for the functioning of water pumping stations were exhausted and warned of roads being “flooded by wastewater” and diseases spreading.

Ismail Sarsour, an official with the city’s emergency committee, told the AFP news agency that the shutdown impacts more than 140 sites where tens of thousands of Palestinians displaced by war have taken shelter.

The fuel shortage is the result of an Israeli military blockade of Gaza’s border crossing points, which has also prevented desperately needed supplies of food, clean water and medicine from entering the war-torn territory.


Palestinian children walk with water containers past destroyed buildings and a puddle of sewage water erupting from collapsed underground pipes in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on July 8