Casualties from Israeli attacks near Nuseirat, Deir el-Balah
We are getting reports of casualties from several attacks in central Gaza. One attack injured a group of Palestinians to the north of Nuseirat camp, according to an ambulance source cited by our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
Meanwhile a drone attack injured a child near the city of Deir el-Balah, reports the Wafa news agency.
UN says aid deliveries remain severely restricted
Despite Israeli vows to allow more aid to access Gaza, a spokesman for the UN Secretary General has said the “realities on the ground remain largely the same”.
“Aid that has entered remains by far insufficient for the starving population, and our convoys continue to face impediments on their way to delivering aid,” Farhan Haq told reporters, adding some missions take up to 18 hours to complete, with teams sometimes forced to wait 10 hours on dangerous, congested roads.
He added that no shelter supplies have entered the enclave since March. While some food aid has been able to enter, it is often “offloaded by the hungry crowds before reaching its destinations”.
The high energy biscuits and baby formula brought into Gaza for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers “still a fraction of what is needed”.
Meanwhile, malnutrition among children “is reaching catastrophic levels”, he said.

A Palestinian family sit outside their tent in the Daraj neighbourhood in Gaza City







