Israeli military keeps hitting schools, blocking aid in Gaza: UNRWA
The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has released its latest situation report for the Gaza Strip, describing deteriorating conditions.
It said the number of people who did not receive any food rations in September stood at 1.4 million, compared to one million in August. The reasons were “Israeli-imposed bureaucratic hurdles, lack of security guarantees within Gaza, insufficient border crossing points and risk of criminal gangs looting humanitarian convoys in southern Gaza”.
An average of only 52 humanitarian trucks entered Gaza in September, which is way below the about 700 trucks per day the population needs.
The Israeli military has now hit or damaged 86 percent of all UNRWA schools-turned-shelters in the enclave, and destroyed at least 71 schools, it said.
Nearly 70 percent of crop fields have been destroyed, and at least 1.9 million people or about 90 percent of the population is forcibly displaced inside Gaza.
🔹On 1-2 October, 3 @UNRWA schools were hit, with at least 21 people reportedly killed. Around 86% of UNRWA schools in #Gaza have been hit or damaged as of 6 September
🔹In the Gaza strip, 1.4 million people did not receive food in September. They were 1 million in August
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— UNRWA (@UNRWA) October 4, 2024
‘Unbearable escalation’ in Gaza
It has been an unbearable escalation since the early hours of this morning. There has been a clear surge of air strikes on neighborhoods across the Gaza Strip.
In the past few hours, there has been artillery shelling coming from the Bureij refugee camp, and also from the northern Nuseirat camp, where a high-rise block has been completely hit by an Israeli fighter jet which left massive destruction behind.
A residential building in Bureji belonging to an extended Palestinian family has been completely destroyed, according to medical sources in Al-Aqsa Hospital. They told Al Jazeera that five Palestinians have been confirmed killed.
Gaza’s Civil Defence told Al Jazeera there has been a very remarkable effort being made in Khan Younis to recover more Palestinians who were killed since an Israeli military incursion in the eastern areas of the city – they said they managed to recover 15 Palestinians.
In the north, the Israeli military has attacked a very densely populated house in the Shati refugee camp.
There are also growing concerns among Palestinians that the world has forgotten Gaza because all eyes now are on Lebanon and they feel the Israeli military is isolating Gaza while imposing more pressure on civilians.
Nine Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip: Report
Nine Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks near Gaza City and in the city of Khan Younis, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa.
It reports that Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics transported five bodies and several injured people to al-Shifa Hospital after Israeli strikes targeted a house in the west of Gaza City.
Paramedics are also reported to have pulled four bodies, including two women and a toddler, out of the rubble of a house in Khan Younis.
