Health sector in Gaza grappling with ‘critical shortages’, UN warns
UN spokesperson Farhan Haq says only five out of 486 health service points in Gaza were fully operational last month. Over half were entirely non-functional, while 233 were partially operating, he told reporters at a briefing earlier today.
“The health sector is grappling with critical shortages of medicines, supplies, fuel, food and water,” he warned.
Situation in Gaza City ‘absolutely terrifying’, UNRWA says
Louise Wateridge, senior emergency officer for UNRWA, says the daily Israeli bombardments are “absolutely terrifying”.
“What we’re seeing here is very miserable … people don’t have anywhere to shelter, they are in bombed-out buildings,” Wateridge told Al Jazeera from Gaza City, where she said an estimated 300,000 people remain.
“The rest of the population are under fabric, plastic sheeting, blankets, doing everything they can to keep out of the wind and the rain, but it’s almost impossible – there are very few aid supplies for them,” she added.
In the besieged northern area of Gaza, all requests have been denied or impeded since the start of November, she said. “This means we have not been able to facilitate any humanitarian aid.”
Israeli military bombs houses in Beit Lahiya, killing at least 4
The Israeli military has bombed two houses in the Beit Lahiya area of northern Gaza, killing at least four people, according to the Palestinian Information Center and the Quds News Network.
Several more people were injured in the attack, which targeted the Sahweil and Zaqout family homes.
Bodies of Palestinian family killed in Israeli attack on Gaza City retrieved from rubble
Palestinians carry the body of a girl who was killed on Wednesday when an Israeli bomb destroyed a school building where she and other members of her family were sheltering in Gaza City
At least 12 people were killed in the early-morning strike on Gaza City’s al-Tabin school, the Wafa news agency reported
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