Death toll rises following Israeli attack in central Gaza
At least 13 people are now confirmed killed, including women and children, following an attack on two houses in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the Wafa news agency reports.
Dozens of people have also been injured in the attack, which struck homes belonging to the Abu Ataya and Abu Shamis families in the Nuseirat camp.
Israeli military bombs school in Gaza City, killing at least 6
At least six people are confirmed dead following an Israeli military strike in the Tuffah neighbourhood in the east of Gaza City.
Several more people were injured in the attack, which targeted the Shujayea Boys School, a shelter now housing displaced Palestinians.
Hamas claims to have killed, wounded Israeli soldiers in Gaza
The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said it had “killed and wounded” members of an Israeli engineering unit after detonating mines it laid in the al-Fakhari area east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
Analysis finds Israel killed more children, women than any other recent conflict in a single year
A new analysis by Oxfam has found that the Israeli army has killed more children and women in the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip over the past 12 months than the equivalent period of any other war in the last two decades.
In a statement, the charity said that conservative figures put the number of children and women killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza to more than 11,000 and 6,000, respectively.
Estimated figures from 2004-2021 on direct conflict deaths from the Small Arms Survey show that the highest number of women killed in a single year was more than 2,600 in Iraq in 2016, Oxfam said.
It added that a report by Every Casualty Counts examined information on more than 11,000 children killed across the first 30 months of the Syrian war, an average of more than 4,700 deaths a year. UN reports on Children and Armed Conflict over the past 18 years show that no other conflicts killed a higher number of children in 12 months, Oxfam said.
“These staggering figures are both appalling and heartbreaking,” said Sally Abi Khalil, Oxfam’s Middle East and North Africa director.
“Influential actors in the international community have not only failed to hold Israel to account, they are also complicit in the atrocities by continuing to unconditionally supply it with arms. It will take generations to recover from the devastating impacts of this war and there is still no ceasefire in sight.”
Number of people killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza climbs to 41,638
The Health Ministry in Gaza has reported that at least 41,638 people have been killed in the Israeli assault on the besieged enclave since October 7.
The toll includes 23 people killed in the last 24-hour reporting period, according to the ministry, which also said that 96,460 people have been wounded in the Gaza Strip since the war began.
