Gaza death toll rises
At least 82 Palestinians have been killed and 247 injured in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
The toll included nine aid seekers killed and more than 78 others injured, raising the total number of people killed at aid sites since May 27, when the GHF started operations, to 782. More than 5,179 other starving Palestinians were also injured in total at those GHF distribution points, the ministry said.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed a total of 57,762 Palestinians and injured 137,656 since October 7, 2023, the ministry added.
Civil defence says vehicles out of service in northern Gaza
The Gaza civil defence says it has been left without any vehicles to conduct rescue operations in the Gaza and North Gaza governorates, with the exception of a single firetruck.
In a statement, the organisation said its emergency vehicles have either been destroyed by the Israeli military or unable to be repaired due to a lack of spare parts.
In the other governorates, namely Deir el-Balah, Khan Younis and Rafah, three out of six firetrucks and four out of six ambulances that provided life-saving services to thousands of people have also ceased operations.
The civil defence called on the international community to intervene, pointing out that the suspension of services comes at a time when the Israeli army has intensified its deadly attacks across Gaza and continues to shrink the so-called “humanitarian zone”.
Palestinians fleeing Khan Younis make their way towards the al-Mawasi area amid an Israeli ground offensive
‘Horrific massacre’: At least 10 children among 15 people killed in Deir el-Balah
Gaza’s Government Media Office says at least 10 children and three women were among 15 people killed by Israeli forces in “a brutal, horrific massacre targeting a medical point” in the enclave’s central city of Deir el-Balah.
“The medical point was providing nutritional and medical supplements to a group of sick children and women, as part of the occupation’s starvation policy against civilians, including 1.1 million children in the Gaza Strip,” the statement published on Telegram said.
It added that the attack “exposes the occupation’s deliberate killing of children, women, and civilians, and its indiscriminate targeting of population centres and popular markets”.
“This direct targeting of a humanitarian medical facility is a flagrant violation of all international and humanitarian laws and confirms the occupation’s continued unabated crimes against defenceless civilians,” the office said, calling for the international community “to break its shameful silence”.
Massive Israeli bombardment in northern Gaza
