Israeli drone attack kills three civilians in northern Gaza’s as-Saftawi area
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum, reporting from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, says at least three civilians have been killed after an Israeli drone attack on as-Saftawi, a neighbourhood in the North Gaza governorate.
“The situation in the north has been described as a disaster zone as Israel has been flattening complete areas that are housing civilians who refuse to flee Jabalia and Beit Lahiya as well,” he said.
At least two killed in Israeli bombing of northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya
That’s according to al-Awda Hospital in the Jabalia refugee camp where the victims were delivered.
Footage verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking news agency, Sanad, documented the arrival of the injured and the bodies to the hospital after an Israeli bombing targeted homes in Beit Lahiya.
Gaza’s death toll rises to 43,314
The number of Palestinians killed in Gaza has risen to 43,314, with 102,019 others injured since October 7 last year, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
In the past 24 hours, Israeli forces have killed at least 55 and injured 192 people, the ministry added.
At least two more people killed in northern Gaza
According to Palestinian media outlets, one person has been killed and several injured in an Israeli drone attack on Jabalia’s Nazla area.
The second person was killed as a result of Israeli shelling targeting a group of people in the vicinity of Muscat Clinic in Gaza City’s Sabra neighbourhood, the reports said.
There were also reports of three children having been injured in an Israeli drone attack on Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan clinic, which is hosting a polio vaccination campaign.
Polio vaccination centre targeted with sound bombs in Gaza City
We just learned that one of the polio vaccination clinics was targeted in Gaza City with a sound bomb from an Israeli quadcopter.
We know that when the Israelis fire sound bombs or even live ammunition or bullets – there are a lot of fragments that fall after these attack. At least three children were injured in this attack.
The polio campaign restarted despite challenges faced by the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Palestinian Ministry of Health. They were denied access, previously unable to cross from the southern Gaza Strip to Gaza City.
But elsewhere in Gaza’s north, thousands of children will not get the polio vaccine because they are unreachable. Israeli forces are not letting UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the Palestinian Ministry of Health reach those areas.
There is a siege there. We’re talking about more than three weeks now of no food, no water, no medicine, no aid.
