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SvennoJ on 18 July 2024
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Israel strikes UN school sheltering displaced in Gaza City


Israel has raided a UNRWA school sheltering displaced people in the Zeitoun neighbourhood in Gaza City.

The attack comes amid the deadliest weeks in Gaza since the war began.

Prospect of polio spreading could be ‘catastrophic’: Doctor

The prospect of polio spreading in Gaza, after sewage water tested positive for the virus, is potentially “catastrophic”, paediatric intensive care physician Tanya Haj-Hassan has told Al Jazeera.

“Polio is a highly infectious disease and a place like Gaza is the perfect environment for the seeding and spreading of sewage-transmitted diseases,” Haj-Hassan said. “This is a pending disaster.”

The Gaza Ministry of Health earlier announced that tests conducted on sewage samples in coordination with UNICEF revealed the presence of the virus.

Haj-Hassan said UNICEF and other organisations had been warning for months of the possibility of an outbreak if they weren’t able to get on top of vaccination programs and decontamination efforts in Gaza. But that has been impossible due to Israel’s ongoing war and the limits imposed by the Israeli military on the entry to Gaza of hygiene kits, vaccines and other essential medicines.


Israeli military bombs house in Nuseirat, killing at least five

The Israeli military has bombed a home in the Block C area of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing at least five people, including children, local media reports.

At least 15 more people have also been wounded in the strike on the house, which reportedly belonged to the Abu Shakyan family.

Israeli military take wanted man’s family hostage in West Bank raid

The Israeli military has stormed the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, and arrested a Palestinian man, the Wafa news agency reports.

Local media reports that the Israeli military held the man’s family hostage and demanded he hand himself over. They then assaulted the man as they arrested him.

Israeli military raids have been reported in other locations in the occupied West Bank, including:

  • The city of Dura, south of Hebron
  • The town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron
  • The town of Kafr Malek, east of Ramallah
  • The town of Burqa, northwest of Nablus
  • The town of al-Khader town, south of Bethlehem