Over 1,500 Palestinians killed in Israeli siege of northern Gaza
More than 1,500 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s ongoing offensive in northern Gaza since last month, the Health Ministry said.
“The Israeli army has killed more than 1,500 Palestinians during its military operations in northern Gaza,” Munir al-Bursh, the ministry’s director-general, told Anadolu news agency.
“The army continues to commit massacres and target shelters and civilians in northern Gaza, causing fatalities amid a strained healthcare system.”
At least 52 Palestinians killed today
Medical sources told Al Jazeera that 52 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza today.
At least 42 of those were killed in northern Gaza.
Palestinians in northern Gaza at ‘imminent risk of dying’
Stephanie Tremblay, associate spokesperson for the UN chief, said that “the entire population in north Gaza is at imminent risk of dying from disease, famine and violence”. More than 1,500 people have been killed and no aid has entered northern Gaza since Israel’s siege there since last month.
“Palestinians there have no protection as bombardment continues our humanitarian colleagues stress once again that civilians in the north, and across Gaza, must be protected.”
Recently displaced Palestinians among casualties at bombed Gaza shelter
In Gaza City, there were people inside a school that was converted into an evacuation centre recently.
Many of those displaced sought shelter and protection inside this school. Some of them who had arrived there in the past few days were among the casualties when the school was bombed.
Once again, we are seeing the same patterns of targeting. Over the past few months, women and children have made up the vast majority of the casualties.
Now, the tragedy is those with injuries are taken to hospital either in civilian vehicles or on carts pulled by animals, arriving with severe burns and wounds – without the proper medical care needed to save their lives.
Israeli settlers attack house, torch vehicle south of Jenin
Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian house and torched a vehicle in the Jaba town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, Wafa news agency reported.
The report added that the settlers mounted an attack on the house of Aysar Saleh Khaliliya, physically assaulted his family and set a vehicle belonging to his brother, Muntaser, ablaze.
In violation of international law, more than 700,000 Israeli settlers are living across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
