Nearly a dozen polio vaccines administered at Nasser Hospital ahead of official campaign
The rollout will officially start tomorrow in many of the designated sites in the central area of the Gaza Strip. This will be the first location of the entire rollout in the coming four days—vaccinations for children under the age of 10.
By designated sites, we’re talking about UNRWA schools that have turned into evacuation centres and public schools that are still intact. The other four days will be in Khan Younis and the last rollout will be in the northern part of the Strip.
A Palestinian woman holds a baby as children receive vaccinations against polio at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 31
Dozens of dead brought to Nasser Hospital
The bodies of 27 people killed have been taken to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis today, report our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic. They are among at least 40 people to have been killed by Israeli attacks since early this morning, with air raids concentrated in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, along with Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.
Two killed by Israeli air strike in Rafah: Report
Two Palestinians have been killed and several others injured in an Israeli air strike on the city of Rafah in the south of the besieged enclave, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
The agency, citing local sources, reported it was a drone that struck a group of individuals in the Shakoush area.
Israel’s war is ‘against the civilian population’
Very tragic situations unfolded in the early hour of this morning as the Israeli military carried out air strikes, coupled with heavy artillery, on residential homes.
It’s a pattern that’s been going on for the past month. These attacks occur without any prior warning.
In the early hours of this morning, people were still inside these residential homes, and children were still in bed, still sleeping, when the heavy artillery and the bombs fell. Nine members of one family were killed right at the spot of the attacks, and several others were critically injured.
There were three attacks separate attacks on refugee camps in what the Israeli military described as targeted killings, but children and women are making up the majority of the casualties arriving here at the hospital.
The patterns of these attacks suggest that the Israeli military doesn’t have any military objective right now. When you see children and young adults brought to the hospital, shredded into pieces, the conclusion is that this war is against the civilian population.
