UNICEF warns of dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza
The United Nations children’s agency has warned that the entire population in northern Gaza is at imminent risk of dying from disease and famine.
Two killed, others injured, after Israeli attack on northern Gaza
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that two Palestinians were killed and others injured in an Israeli attack on a house in Beit Lahiya.
The UN has described the situation in parts of northern Gaza as “apocalyptic” as Israel continues to block humanitarian aid and launch attacks from the ground, air and sea.
‘We have been abandoned by the whole world’
Dr Hussam Abu Safia, director of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, described the challenges he’s facing in treating the many wounded Palestinians seeking care.
“In this war, we’ve had to learn to do everything. As Israeli forces stormed the hospital and detained the entire medical staff, I, together with my assistant physician, we were left alone between a rock and hard place, either to give up or start doing what we can to save lives,” Abu Safiya told Al Jazeera.
“We’ve been flooded with victims suffering all kinds of injuries… I have a message for the world – not only to the WHO, the Red Cross and the international community – but also to the proponents of international law and all those who pontificate on humanity and human rights: An urgent humanitarian passage must be opened without delay to have fuel and medical supplies delivered, and also to allow for specialised medical staff to come and lend a helping hand.
“We have been abandoned by the whole world and left to work under unimaginably harsh and horrifying conditions.”
Israeli forces hit Gaza City home killing 2 Palestinians
We are getting reports of another Israeli attack on a home in Gaza, this time in the Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City. Our colleagues on the ground say at least two people have been killed and others wounded.
Child severely injured as tank fires on Gaza hospital
Health officials at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in besieged northern Gaza say the facility came under Israeli tank fire and one child who has been hospitalised has been critically wounded.
Hussam Abu Safia, the hospital’s director, said the incident took place after a delegation from the World Health Organization visited the facility and evacuated some patients.
While evacuating the wounded is important, it’s more important to dispatch specialised medical teams to north Gaza hospitals that have become overwhelmed by the number of casualties during Israel’s monthlong ground incursion, he said.
Abu Safiya said the tank fire hit water supplies, the courtyard and the neonatal intensive care unit.
