Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 35 Palestinians
At least 35 people were killed early on Thursday in Israeli bombings of various areas in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. Children and women were among seven killed when a residential building in Gaza city's Al Jalaa Street was bombed, the report said.
Another 15 were killed in the bombing of a house where displaced people were taking shelter, west of Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, the agency added.
In the western area of Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip, 13 Palestinians were killed and others were injured, according to Wafa, in a strike that hit people providing aid.
Earlier, medics said at least 30 people were also wounded in the Rafah attack, with several in critical condition. In the nearby city of Khan Younis, another group of men tasked with security for aid shipments was hit by a separate Israeli airstrike that wounded several of them, medics said.
Gaza death toll rises to 44,835, says Health Ministry
At least 44,835 Palestinians have been killed and 106,356 wounded in Israel's war on Gaza since October 7 last year the Gaza Health Ministry said. The latest toll includes 30 deaths and 99 injured people in the past 24 hours, the ministry added.
Gaza rescuers say Israel strikes kill 12 guards securing aid trucks
Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli air strikes on Thursday morning killed 12 Palestinian guards securing aid trucks in southern parts of the territory.
Seven guards were killed in a strike in Rafah, while another attack left five guards dead in Khan Yunis, agency spokesman Mahmud Basal told AFP. The military did not give an immediate response when asked about the two strikes.
Shivering from fear or cold: Distant memories of warmth as Gazans face brutal winter
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A girl at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Al Zaywayda in central Gaza
Their bodies are more frail, their immune systems weaker and their tents drenched in rain and sewage. This year's winter is taking a more brutal toll on Gazans who have less shelter, aid and food to survive on than they did a year ago.
With 90 per cent of the enclave's 1.2 million population displaced, most with just the clothes on their back, Gazans are left exposed and scared. “Our teams on the ground wonder whether the children are shivering from the fear of bombardment or the cold,” Jonathan Crickx, Jerusalem spokesman for Unicef, the UN children's agency, told The National.
The second wartime winter is harsher, Mr Crickx said, because last year, much of Gaza's infrastructure was still standing. Now it is almost destroyed.
“When it hit Gaza last year, most of the population was displaced to Rafah,” he said. “It wasn't equipped to host so many people but you still had some buildings and schools that were turned into shelters.”
The weather isn't too bad atm in Gaza, low of 10c, high of 21c. Although 10c in a tent without proper clothes nor bedding while starving, easy to get sick that way.
Israel kills Palestinian doctor in Gaza, says Health Ministry
A Palestinian doctor was shot and killed by Israeli aircraft in northern Gaza on Thursday, the Gaza Health Ministry said.
The ministry said in a statement that Dr Saeed Joda was heading from Kamal Adwan Hospital to Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza to treat some cases when he was directly targeted.
His death brings the number of those killed in Israeli attacks in the health sector to 1,057, the ministry added.
"The Ministry of Health reiterates its appeal to all international and human rights institutions to provide protection for hospitals and health teams while they carry out their humanitarian duty," it said.
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