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Three killed as Israel continues assault on Nuseirat

At least three people have been killed and more injured after the Israeli military bombed a house in the Camp 5 area of Nuseirat in central Gaza, our Al Jazeera Arabic colleagues report.

The strike is the latest of several attacks carried out by the Israeli military in Nuseirat in recent hours. At least 34 people have been killed and dozens more injured in the area over the past 24 hours, according to the Palestinian Information Center, citing government media sources in Gaza.

Earlier, we reported three people had been killed and more injured after Israeli forces bombed a house belonging to the al-Assar family in the north of the camp.



Translation: A number of injured people arrive at al-Awda Hospital after a house belonging to the al-Assar family was targeted in Camp 5 in the Nuseirat Camp in the central Gaza Strip.


People ‘fighting over’ food in central Gaza amid intense Israeli attacks: UN

Louise Wateridge, senior emergency officer for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), told Al Jazeera from the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza of the hardships now faced by civilians in the war-battered territory.

“There is no food available here. It is very, very difficult for families on the ground,” Wateridge said. “The situation has become so dire here that, once again, we are seeing a situation where people are fighting over bags of flour. They are fighting over any remaining cans of food, and anything in the area because it is that low in stock,” Wateridge added.

“It’s been an extremely violent day. It’s really intensified, the military operations in the middle area [of Gaza] where I am today,” she said.


A huge plume of smoke after an Israeli attack on the Nuseirat refugee camp, in central Gaza, on Friday


‘Absolutely terrifying’: 24-hours of Israeli shelling, air strikes, drone and naval attacks on Gaza

Louise Wateridge, senior emergency officer for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), spoke to Al Jazeera earlier from the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

Here is more from that interview:

“How on earth can humanitarians move aid from the borders to the people in need when there is shelling? When there are air strikes. When there are drones. When there is navy fire. That is what we have had for the last 24 hours, and it is making the humanitarian response here absolutely impossible,” Wateridge said.

“It is absolutely terrifying. Today has been one of the worst days that I have experienced in the Gaza Strip. I have been here since April. I’ve been here through the Rafah incursions. We’ve heard horrific stories in the north. We can’t get to the north. It’s besieged,” she said.

“But right now, with this bombing around us, this constant bombardment, it is terrifying. You can hear children crying. People screaming. People running for their lives. And it has been nonstop for 24 hours. There is nowhere to go. People are trapped.

“I think viewers forget that people cannot leave the Gaza Strip. There is absolutely nowhere for people to go. They are fleeing from one place to another and getting bombed everywhere they go. It is terrifying.”