All bakeries shut in central Gaza due to supply shortages: WFP
All bakeries have shut down in central Gaza due to severe supply shortages, the World Food Programme (WFP) warns in a post on X.
“Bread is a lifeline for many families – often the only food they can access. Now, even that is slipping out of reach,” the UN agency said, urging vital aid to enter the besieged enclave.
Israel kills 10 people in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya
At least 10 Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed in Israeli shelling of the al-Manshiyya area in central Gaza’s Beit Lahiya town. That’s according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, who also said the attack also injured a number of other people.
18 killed in Beit Lahiya in Israeli air strikes
In northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya, an Israeli strike targeted a residential building in which 18 Palestinians have been confirmed killed. We are also getting reports of attacks in another area of Beit Lahiya, an area seen as a last resort for Palestinians. Five civilians have been confirmed killed.
Meanwhile, the situation in Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya remains critical as it has suffered repeated Israeli attacks, including air strikes, artillery shelling and relentless drone fire on the courtyard.
Medical staff have been injured including the director of the hospital previously, Hussam Abu Safia. Now the head of the intensive care unit, Dr Ahmed el-Kahlout, was killed in an Israeli drone attack.
Kamal Adwan suffers from a chronic shortage of essential supplies and lack of medical staff. However, we have spoken to doctors there who say they’ll continue to work and not leave the hospital.
Israeli forces attack Gaza City area with artillery shelling
Our colleague at Al Jazeera Arabic report Israel’s army is firing artillery in central Gaza City’s Saftawi area.
At least 55 people have been killed across the Gaza Strip since morning, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
‘Families obliterated’: Death toll in Beit Lahiya rises to 75
We earlier reported on an Israeli attack that struck a residential building in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya. Gaza’s civil defence spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal says there has been another attack, and the death from both now stands at 75.
In a statement, Bassal said it is difficult to know what is happening on the ground in the besieged and battered north, where Israeli forces are pressing ahead with a brutal ground and aerial assault.
“Entire families are being obliterated in northern Gaza and we do not know anything about them. There are many who survive attacks under the rubble and there are no civil defence workers there to help,” he said.
Bassal added there are an estimated 10,000 wounded individuals in northern Gaza who have sustained wounds over the past 50 days when Israel’s renewed assault on the area began.
More from Gaza’s civil defence agency on Israeli attacks
Since the start of the Israeli military incursion in northern Gaza on October 5, at least 2,700 people Palestinians have been killed, civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmoud Basal says.
He described the situation in northern Gaza as a “catastrophe and genocide with no one there to provide relief to the civilians”.
Basal said the Israeli army targets any person in northern Gaza, even people filling water containers or looking for food or firewood.