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Shortage of basic medicines exceeds 60 percent in Gaza: Ministry
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic have spoken to Mousa Abed, director general of primary healthcare at Gaza’s Health Ministry. He said the enclave’s hospitals lack 83 percent of the medical supplies and 74 percent of life-saving medicines are not available in the war-torn Palestinian territory.
More than 85 percent of specialised medicines for cancer treatment and kidney dialysis are unavailable in Gaza, Abed added.
Israeli army trying to expand operation in central Gaza
The carnage of Palestinians did not stop since the early hours of this morning.
There have been wide concentration bombings around the north of the Gaza Strip, where the military has been destroying residential squares without any warning, the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City in particular.
The army is trying to expand its operation in all areas that are adjacent to the Netzarim Corridor. In the central areas of Gaza, the Nuseirat refugee camp has been the area that has been pounded intensively by the Israeli military.
But the fight is still ongoing in Rafah. We have been hearing from witnesses that Rafah has been mostly obliterated by the Israeli fighter jets and artillery units.
It’s uninhabitable … the army has been hitting all its main central squares and destroying water wells, educational facilities, universities, and all evacuation shelters that Palestinians had been using pre-incursion.
Gaza’s displaced face falling temperatures and possible rainfall
Gaza’s Civil Defence has warned displaced Palestinians of an expected drop in temperatures and potential rainfall next week.
In a statement, the emergency rescue agency called on residents, “especially those displaced in tents and damaged homes”, to protect their shelters. More than 1.9 million people – about nine in every 10 – have been displaced in Gaza at least once since the start of Israel’s war 11 months ago.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering in overcrowded tent camps in Israeli-designated “safe zones”, which represent less than 11 percent of the land in the Gaza Strip, according to the agency. Diseases are spreading rapidly, especially among children and the elderly, in large part due to a lack of clean water.
“We call on the United Nations and its various bodies to urgently intervene and find shelters to protect displaced citizens from the dangers of rainfall,” the Civil Defence said.
Displaced Palestinians in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza
Israel’s army provides some journalists a limited look at Rafah
The Israeli military gave a few chosen journalists a tour of an area in the war-battered city of Rafah in southern Gaza. The reporters on Friday’s escorted tour were unable to visit other parts of the city. Israel has barred international journalists from entering Gaza independently.
Rafah’s district of Tal as-Sultan was a landscape of destruction, months into Israel’s invasion. Giant piles of wreckage that had once been homes of Palestinian residents lined the roads. A few shattered concrete skeletons of apartment buildings still stood.
Once an Israeli-designated “safe” zone, soldiers moved into Rafah in May and forced about 1.4 million Palestinians to flee – including residents of Rafah and hundreds of thousands of people who had taken refuge from other parts of Gaza. They are now dispersed around southern and central Gaza.
