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Two Israeli soldiers killed in northern Gaza accident
The Israeli army has confirmed the deaths of an officer and a soldier as well as the injury of eight others in a crane collapse in the northern Gaza Strip due to stormy weather.
Israel’s public broadcaster Kan said the crane collapsed due to strong winds and fell on a tent with soldiers inside it.
Reports in Israeli media said the army is investigating this incident, which it described as “serious and reflects a lack of preparation for weather conditions”.
Dozens of deported ex-Palestinian prisoners remain in Cairo awaiting transfer: Official
Qadura Fares, head of the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs in Palestine, has provided an update on the whereabouts of several exchanged prisoners who were part of last month’s ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel.
He said, “Fifteen deported Palestinians have left Cairo for Turkiye as part of the process of relocating freed detainees.”
Fares also pointed out that “80 deported Palestinians remain in Cairo, awaiting transfer procedures to several other countries,” and that “the occupation authorities have transferred 20 deported detainees to the Gaza Strip in the last batch due to the difficulty of finding places to receive them.”
Gaza death toll rises
Israel has killed at least two Palestinians and injured four others in Gaza in the past 24 hours despite the ceasefire, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
It also said that at least one more person succumbed to injuries sustained in previous Israeli attacks and that 28 other bodies recovered from the rubble were received by hospitals.
The 31 newly registered killings brought the total death toll in Israel’s war on Gaza to 47,583, the ministry said, adding that 111,633 people have been injured since October 7, 2023.
Israel kills Palestinian near central Gaza’s Nuseirat despite ceasefire
A Palestinian man has been shot and killed by Israeli forces in the town of al-Maghraqa, north of the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, according to the Wafa news agency.
The report identified the victim as Salman Rushdi Salman Abu Ghoula.
People in flooded tents face diseases when Gaza’s healthcare ‘is almost collapsed’
Displaced people, who live in tents in Gaza City, braving the cold and windy weather “without basic necessities”, had their temporary shelters flooded after the rain this morning.
“Women, children and people with health complications are at risk of catching flu and water-born diseases … in a time when the healthcare system across Gaza is almost collapsed,” according to Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from the city.
“There is only one hospital available here that went from small marginal hospital to the main hospital for Gaza City, providing medical care to thousands without having a capacity to do so,” he said.
Death toll due to lack of resources equals those killed by Israeli forces: Ministry of Health
Marwan al-Hamas, director of field hospitals at the Ministry of Health in Gaza, has spoken to Al Jazeera Arabic about the healthcare situation in the coastal enclave.
Here is a summary of his translated comments:
- Since October 7, 2023, the number of deaths in Gaza due to lack of resources is equivalent to the number killed by Israeli forces.
- We urgently need field hospitals, medical staff, medicines and medical equipment.
- Israeli forces are obstructing the entry of field hospitals into the Strip.
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