Palestinians in Gaza call on international community to ‘stop bloodshed’
A single Israeli air strike in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis area has killed more than 20 people, a medical source at Nasser Hospital says.
“My grandfather’s house was bombed … without warning,” said Ahmed al-Aqqad, whose family owned the building. More bodies may be buried “under the rubble, but we cannot get them out because of the lack of necessary equipment”, he said.
“We call on the entire world to stand together to stop the bloodshed,” his relative Diaa al-Aqqad said.
WFP says its Gaza programmes ‘shutting down’ due to aid blockade
The UN’s World Food Programme says that as food stocks in Gaza run out due to Israel’s ongoing blockade, its initiatives are “gradually shutting down”.
“We urgently need aid to enter Gaza,” the agency said.
Gaza City no longer able to provide water to citizens
The municipal authority has told Al Jazeera that Israeli attacks on water infrastructure have left it unable to provide potable water. A spokesperson for the municipality said that the rest of the Strip is facing similar struggles due to a lack of fuel to operate generators that power water-pumping stations.
Israel has completely blockaded the Gaza Strip for more than a month now, meaning essential supplies like food and medicine have not entered the territory in that time.
Qatar condemns Israel’s Gaza school bombing, Saudi centre attack
Qatar says it considers the Israeli shelling of the Dar al-Arqam School in Gaza City and the destruction of a warehouse east of Rafah belonging to the Saudi Center for Culture and Heritage a “blatant violation of international humanitarian law”.
The Foreign Ministry in a statement renewed its call for urgent action by the international community to stop “repeated crimes against civilians and civilian facilities, and to compel Israel to comply with international law”.
It condemned relentless Israeli attacks and called on the UN Security Council to assume its responsibility and stop the Gaza war.
Palestinians inspect damage at the Dar al-Arqam School that had sheltered families displaced in the war
‘Legs cut off’: Witness tells of injuries to children from Israeli helicopter attack on tent shelters
A Palestinian man has told the UN of the horrific injuries to children and others following an Israeli Apache helicopter attack on people sleeping in makeshift tents in the al-Mawasi area of central Gaza.
“The Apache came in, we were so terrorised we couldn’t even hear a sound, everything was on fire,” Adel tells the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in a video shared on social media.
“Everything was melting on our little kids. We had to run away. We saw some kids here, some in pieces, some in tears. A woman with her leg cut off. A boy with legs cut off. Another kid with an eye popping out. A little girl whose foot flew off, bleeding,” he said.
The Israeli military had previously declared al-Mawasi a so-called “safe zone” for people it forcibly displaced from other areas of Gaza, while still attacking the area continuously.
