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‘State of panic’ among Palestinians in eastern parts of Khan Younis

There’s a state of panic among Palestinians, especially those in the eastern parts of Khan Younis and those who have received the leaflets and the warnings by the Israeli forces to evacuate to the western parts of Khan Younis in al-Mawasi.

These people went back to their houses a couple of days ago when there was another warning for them to evacuate during the past couple of weeks. The same exact area is being called for evacuation.

Those same exact families – children, parents with all their belongings – were scattered on the streets for weeks because they did not have any place to evacuate to when the Israeli forces warned them.

Palestinians do not have any place to go to, everywhere is packed. One million displaced Palestinians are squeezed in Deir el-Balah. And here in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, we are seeing people’s movements, looking for a place to set up their tents.

But people want a place where there’s access to water, where there’s no garbage. Here, where we are, there’s a huge pile of garbage, just beside us and that’s why not a lot of people are setting up their tents over here.


Paramedics still carrying out rescue efforts after latest Gaza City attacks

Two schools were targeted – Abdel Fattah Hamoud and al-Zahraa. Both of those schools are in the Tuffah district in Gaza City.

At least 15 Palestinians were killed. Thirty were injured. And according to Civil Defence teams and paramedics, there are a lot of Palestinians still missing and trapped under the rubble. They’re still trying to rescue [people] and pull out as many bodies as possible.

In the past two weeks across the Gaza Strip, … Israeli forces targeted at least eight schools.

Palestinians were sheltering in there and were seeking refuge. … They [Israeli forces] have been targeting those schools without any prior notice, without any warning, and that’s why dozens of Palestinians were killed in those air strikes.


Israeli forces hit Gaza City school for a second time, civil defence says

Israeli forces have struck the Abdel Fattah Hamoud School in Gaza City for a second time today, Gaza’s civil defence says, but no injuries were reported from the second attack. It said its teams were carrying out inspections in the area.

Earlier, the Israeli military attacked the school, along with the nearby al-Zahraa School, where displaced Palestinian families had been sheltering. At least 15 people were killed, and dozens more were wounded.


Israeli military continues to operate along the Philadelphi Corridor

The Israeli military has released images and footage to show that it continues to operate at the Egypt-Gaza border.

It claims that troops in a combat engineering battalion demolished Palestinian rocket launch sites near Gaza’s largest fuel depot. “Any damage to the facility could endanger the lives of tens of thousands of Gazan citizens who are in the area of ​​the depot,” said the Israeli military, which significantly hampers supplies of fuel and other humanitarian assistance to the besieged enclave.

Israeli Prime Minsiter Benjamin Netanyahu promised last week that the military will continue to operate along the Philadelphi Corridor as it expands its ground invasion of Gaza, even as Egypt has expressed its opposition to any Israeli presence in the sensitive area.


WFP forced to reduce rations in Gaza because of fighting, damaged roads

That’s according to the deputy spokesperson for the UN secretary-general, Farhan Haq. Haq explained that the World Food Programme have been forced to reduce rations for Palestinians in Gaza because of the continuing war on the enclave.

“WFP urgently needs fuel deliveries, increased flow of blood supplies and greater capacity to deliver hot meals, particularly in Gaza City and north Gaza,” Haq said. “WFP warns that it will be unable to bring in the quantity of food required this month unless more border crossing points into Gaza open and aid workers are able to bring in half the quantity of food needed in July and in the West Bank.”