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Thousands of families cut off from water in Gaza City

A municipality spokesman has told Al Jazeera that thousands of families in eastern Gaza City have been without water for about a week.

Asem al-Nabi said the water blockade means Palestinians there are now suffering from a state of dehydration that cannot be addressed without external intervention.

Twenty Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks in northern Gaza

Israeli forces have bombed two homes in western Gaza City, killing at least 20 people, including women and children, a source at al-Shifa Hospital told our colleagues on the ground.


People search for survivors in the rubble of a building in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood in Gaza City in the central Gaza Strip that was hit in an Israeli attack

Mahmoud al-Sheikh Salama, a witness to one of the attacks, said it took place at 2am (23:00 GMT on Saturday) while he was sleeping.

“We heard a loud explosion, and shortly after, another one. We rushed over … and people were trapped under the rubble – four families, a large number of residents,” he told Al Jazeera.

“We tried to search for survivors and managed to pull out two people alive from under the rubble after about three hours of struggle and breaking through the debris. We got two out alive – the rest were martyred and are still trapped beneath the rubble.”


Four killed in southern Gaza

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic, citing sources at Nasser Hospital, report that four Palestinians, including three children, have been killed in an Israeli attack on a tent west of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.


Two killed in Gaza City

Our colleagues on the ground in Gaza are reporting that two people have been killed and many wounded in an Israeli attack on Gaza City’s Tuffah neighbourhood.


Smoke billows up behind makeshift shelters east of Gaza City in the central Gaza Strip