‘People torn to pieces’: Hundreds of casualties in Israeli attack on south Gaza
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has issued a statement about the growing number of Palestinian casualties in Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip.
The organisation said the bodies of 59 killed Palestinians and more than 200 wounded were brought to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.
It added that after many injured Palestinians, including aid seekers, arrived at the facility, the MSF team had to evacuate the maternity ward and turn delivery rooms into emergency operating theatres.
“Every day, Palestinians are met with carnage as they try to receive the limited aid trickling into Gaza,” MSF said.
Wafaa Abu Nemer, an MSF pediatrician, said “she saw people torn to pieces”. “It’s a disaster,” she added. “Seeking food should not be a death sentence.”
Aitor Zabalgogeazkoa, the organisation’s emergency coordinator, said the medical complex was “over capacity and running on limited supplies … dangerously close to breaking point”.
Israel says two rockets fired from Gaza
The Israeli army says the projectiles have been launched from southern Gaza and have fallen in open areas.
‘Unacceptable’: UN calls for justice after hundreds killed at food sites in Gaza
The UN chief’s deputy spokesman, Farhan Haq, has called for accountability after the latest incident of Israeli forces killing Palestinians at a food distribution point in Gaza.
“The secretary-general condemns the loss of lives and injuries of civilians in Gaza, who are once again being shot at while seeking food,” Haq said at the UN headquarters in New York.
“It is unacceptable. As of yesterday, 338 people have been killed and more than 2,800 injured while trying to access food near distribution sites.”
What’s happening in the occupied West Bank?
As Israeli forces continue targeting Iran and Gaza, here is what they are doing in the occupied West Bank:
- Israeli forces installed a new metal gate between Kifl Hares and Hares villages, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Salfit, effectively blocking the only road left for villagers to access the city.
- A Palestinian was wounded in an assault by Israeli forces in the New Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus.
- Israeli forces took over a Palestinian’s house at the northern entrance of Birzeit, north of Ramallah, and turned it into a military observation and a firing position.
