Death toll in Jabalia attack rises to 7
Gaza’s Civil Defence agency spokesman Mahmoud Basal says the death toll in the Israeli air attack that struck the Azzam family home in northern Gaza’s Jabalia has risen to seven. Basal also said there are “a number of wounded” people without providing an exact figure.
This has so far been the deadliest attack reported in the war-battered enclave today.
Two Palestinians killed in attack on Gaza City neighbourhood
Gaza’s Civil Defence spokesman Mahmoud Basal says a child is among the two killed in Israeli artillery shelling of the Zeitoun neighourhood.
Heavy strikes and fierce fighting ongoing throughout Gaza
Simultaneously both Gaza and Lebanon are under heavy Israeli strikes. There has been a clear concentration of attacks on central Gaza.
We can hear the sound of Palestinian ambulances bringing casualties to the hospital after the al-Maghazi refugee camp was hit. A civilian car was targeted, and two Palestinians were killed with a number of wounded outside the main entrance.
A Palestinian man was shot dead by an Israeli sniper near the Netzarim Corridor as Israel’s army continues attacks on the Zeitoun neighbourhood in northern Gaza City, which lies adjacent.
In the south of Gaza, there’s heavy fighting ongoing in Rafah city. The bodies of two Palestinians were recovered in the past few hours. Video released by the armed wing of Hamas show ground battles with Israeli occupation forces.
UN to add nutrients to second round of Gaza polio vaccinations
A new drive to protect 640,000 children in Gaza against polio will also deliver micronutrients – essential vitamins and minerals – and conduct nutritional screenings.
Discussions are also under way about the feasibility of adding further vaccinations to the campaign, including a measles immunisation, said Ted Chaiban, UNICEF’s deputy executive director for humanitarian action and supply operations.
“There are over 44,000 children born in the last year and who haven’t received their basic immunisation,” he added.
The first round of the polio vaccination campaign, which began on September 1, reached its target of immunising 90 percent of children under 10 years of age. The World Health Organisation confirmed last month that a baby was partially paralysed by the type 2 polio virus – the first such case in the territory in 25 years.
The oral vaccines given in Gaza require a second dose given within four weeks of the first.
Khan Younis municipality urges displaced Palestinians to relocate
The call was directed towards Palestinian families in tent encampments near the coast of al-Mawasi, Khan Younis and central Gaza. The municipality warned of rising sea levels, which it said could lead to tents quickly being “swept away”.
The UN says at least 90 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been displaced at least once since the start of the war in October. More than one million have been forced to flee to southern and central Gaza, which have come under repeated attack by Israel.
Several Palestinians killed in latest attacks in northern Gaza
Gaza’s civil defence agency says teams recovered the bodies of six Palestinians, including two women, shortly after a home belonging to the al-Sheikh family was struck in Gaza City’s Daraj neighbourhood.
In northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, the body of one Palestinian was pulled from under the rubble of a destroyed house that belonged to the Abu Rabee family, the agency said.
Casualties reported in northern Gaza after Israeli attack
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report one Palestine has been killed and others wounded in Beit Lahia town following an Israeli raid.
A Palestinian man collects scrap metal in front of a mosque damaged in Israeli bombing in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip
