Latest Israeli attacks on Gaza target port area, kill motorcyclist
An Israeli drone strike on a motorcycle travelling on Salah al-Din Street in central Gaza’s as-Zawayda area has killed one person and left another injured, while Israeli naval boats have shelled the port area west of Gaza City, the Wafa news agency reports.
Israeli artillery pounded Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood late on Monday. Earlier in the day, four people were killed in an Israeli strike on a group of civilians on a street in the Tal al-Hawa area and two young men were killed when a group of people were targeted by an air strike on a street in Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Israeli forces have also ordered residents of central Khan Younis city and several neighbourhoods to evacuate immediately ahead of an expected ground operation, though Wafa reports that Israel’s military continued its attacks even as residents were ordered to leave their homes in the designated areas.
Child malnutrition surges in Gaza as more civilians killed, displaced: UN
In the five-day period up to Monday, 143 Palestinians were reported killed and 341 injured by Israeli attacks on Gaza from air, land and sea forces, according to the UN’s latest situation report.
Detected cases of child malnutrition in Gaza have jumped almost 50 percent in July compared with June, with more than 650 Palestinian children now suffering from “acute malnutrition” in the enclave, which is a three-fold increase in cases since May.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) also reports that an estimated 10,000 people remain missing or under the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza.
And about 11,000 people have been affected by the Israeli military’s latest order for residents of areas in southern Khan Younis and northern Rafah to evacuate. The order affects 24 residential blocs covering 18sq km (7sq miles), the UN reports.
An injured child sits next to a woman at al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City following Israeli bombardment on the Hassan Salama and Nassr schools housing displaced Palestinians on Sunday
Displaced Palestinians live in fear of another wave of forcible displacement: NGO
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has sent an update about the humanitarian situation in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, where aid teams and a significant number of displaced people are concentrated.
“People are living in a constant state of unpredictability, not knowing what is going to come next, be it more displacements, more relocations, or a regional escalation,” Hassan Morajea, regional access advisor for the Norwegian Refugee Council, says from Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.
NRC estimates that recent relocation orders have reduced the size of Israel’s unilaterally designated “humanitarian zones” in Gaza from 20 percent to 14.5 percent, displacing more than 200,000 people from Khan Younis and Deir el-Balah between July 22 and 28.
“The streets are uninhabitable, crowded with people using anything that will offer some semblance of a roof over their heads, even if that is in a damaged building scarred with holes, and destruction around them. It’s shocking to see people living in ruins, but that’s what’s happening here in Gaza, because there is no other option. There aren’t open fields to even set up a tent. There aren’t even tents for them to set up,” Morajea said.
At least five people were killed and 16 wounded on Sunday in an Israeli drone attack on tents at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah, with a separate attack on a house nearby in the same area killing three.
A woman walks amid the destruction in the aftermath of an Israeli strike that hit tents used as temporary shelters by displaced Palestinians in the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on August 4
