No humanitarian aid reaching northern Gaza
Palestinians for the past 20 months have been crammed into small areas in parts of the Gaza Strip. There is little manoeuvering that displaced families can do here in order to secure food supplies for their hungry children.
More than half the people who are showing up [at aid distribution points] are not getting the food parcels due to overcrowding at the site.
The sense of chaos that erupts at every one of these sites is making it difficult.
Meanwhile, northern Gaza has not seen any of these distribution points. None of the [aid] trucks came into the northern territories yet.
UN spokesman says efforts to evacuate patients, staff at Gaza hospital ongoing
A spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says “efforts are ongoing to move the patients and the medical staff” out of al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza after Israel ordered them to evacuate earlier today.
“Al-Awda is the only remaining partially functioning hospital in north Gaza,” Stephane Dujarric told reporters. “The facility is currently overwhelmed with injuries and critically low on supplies,” he said.
The Israeli military has repeatedly targeted hospitals and health facilities across Gaza since it began its offensive in October 2023, pushing the healthcare system to the brink of total collapse.
Israeli military contractor killed in northern Gaza
An employee of a contracting company carrying out “engineering work” for the Israeli military on behalf of the Ministry of Defence has been killed in the northern Gaza Strip, the army said in a statement.
It did not provide additional details on the identity of the person or company or details of the task.
