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Samples from more possible polio cases in Gaza sent to Jordan for testing
While the World Health Organization did not confirm any polio cases in Gaza on Friday, it said that three children in Gaza were found with acute flaccid paralysis – the onset of weakness or paralysis with reduced muscle tone, a common symptom of polio.
The children’s stool samples have been sent for testing to the Jordan National Polio Laboratory, it said.
The potentially fatal, paralysing disease mostly strikes children under the age of five and typically spreads through contaminated water. Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only countries where the spread of polio has never been stopped.
In July, the WHO said a variant of poliovirus type 2 was discovered in wastewater samples from southern Khan Younis and central Deir el-Balah, and linked to a variant of the poliovirus last detected in Egypt in 2023.
On Friday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said that a 10-month-old baby has been diagnosed with polio in Gaza, which the United Nations says had been free of the disease for 25 years.
At least 1 killed as Israeli military bombs house in Gaza City
The Israeli military has bombed a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City, killing at least one person and injuring more, the Wafa news agency reports.
Israeli forces have also bombed a house near the European Hospital, east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza. Several people have been injured, but no casualties have been reported so far, according to Wafa.
Israeli fighter jets have launched three raids around the southern entrance to az-Zawayda town in central Gaza, while residential buildings have been blown up in the Tal as-Sultan neighbourhood, west of Rafah, in the south of the enclave.
Israeli military bombs tents in az-Zawayda, killing at least 10
Earlier, we reported that Israeli fighter jets had launched three raids around the southern entrance to az-Zawayda town in central Gaza. The Wafa news agency now confirms that at least 10 people have been killed in those attacks, which targeted tents sheltering displaced Palestinians.
Israeli military issues new evacuation orders for northern Gaza
Following a mass evacuation order for areas of southern Gaza on Friday, the Israeli military has also ordered people to flee areas in the north of the territory in the vicinity of Beit Hanoon city.
The Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee made the announcement in a post on social media ordering residents and displaced people sheltering in Beit Hanoon neighbourhoods to move south to central Gaza City.
“Hamas and terrorist organizations are firing rockets from your area towards the State of Israel,” Adraee said, adding that Israeli forces “will act forcefully against these elements”.
The UN said earlier that more than 170,000 displaced people are affected by orders issued earlier on Friday by the Israeli military for people to move out of a swath of neighbourhoods in southern Gaza around Khan Younis.
“This is one of the largest evacuation orders” in southern Gaza so far “and it shrinks the size of the so-called ‘humanitarian area’ to about 41 square kilometres [16sq miles], or 11 percent of the total area of the Gaza Strip”, the UN said.
