As Gaza’s population struggles to survive, one man filters mud for water
Amid huge shortages of food, medicine and clean war in Gaza, a resident in the war-torn territory has demonstrated a method for extracting water from mud in a video shared by our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
The process involves collecting wet mud into a cloth, squeezing the liquid into a bowl and then filtering the liquid through a funnel made of a plastic bag and cotton.
From there, the container holding the dirty water is placed at a height on a stool or table. One end of a strip of cloth is dipped in the container, and the other is placed on the lip of a second container placed on the floor.
As the water is absorbed from the higher container, gravity draws down the liquid into the second container, where it gathers as cleaner water.
Fuel supplied to crisis-stricken Gaza hospitals: Ministry
International organisations were successful in bringing fuel to the Gaza Strip in recent days amid a shortage, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
“After exceptional and intensive efforts regarding the fuel crisis that Gaza Strip hospitals suffered from a few days ago, which almost destroyed the hospitals, we were informed by international organisations [like the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, OCHA] that they succeeded in bringing in quantities of fuel,” it said in a statement.
It also said it is working on the continuity of fuel supply “to ensure that there is no crisis in the near term”.
Bodies melted by explosives from Israeli attacks: Civil defence
A body has been recovered following Israeli bombing on the town of Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis in southern Gaza, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report.
Earlier, medical sources told Al Jazeera that 22 Palestinians were killed in Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip during the past 24 hours. The civil defence added that a number of bodies had disappeared as a result of melting due to the amount of explosives fired by the Israeli army.
Gaza death toll rises
At least 32 Palestinians have been killed and 193 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 48 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry. The latest deaths have brought the total toll since October 7, 2023 to 46,537, the ministry said, adding that 499 previously unreported deaths were also added to the total.
Israel’s war on Gaza has also injured at least 109,571 people, the ministry said.
Deadly Israeli attack on school in Jabalia
At least eight people have been killed during an Israeli bombardment that targeted a school housing displaced families, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report.
The attack targeted the Zainab Al-Wazir School in Jabalia Al-Balad, north of the Gaza Strip.
The Wafa news outlet also reported that two children and two women were among those killed in the attack, while several others were wounded.
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