‘We need a ceasefire now’: UNRWA workers describe dire situation in Gaza
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has described the conditions its staff are working under in Gaza as dire, renewing its call for an immediate ceasefire.
“We are working under catastrophic conditions,” said Dr Hind, a UNRWA physician in Gaza.
“The large-scale presence of UNRWA staff and facilities across Gaza allows us to reach as many people as possible with urgent humanitarian assistance. But this shouldn’t be such a harrowing experience for our colleagues. We need a ceasefire now,” UNRWA said in a post on X.
Another health worker said staff often walked “hundreds of metres under the scorching sun” just to reach their posts before working to deliver care “to our people in dire need of help”.
UNRWA also highlighted the desperate situation in the occupied West Bank, where many staff have been displaced or lost their homes yet continue providing education, healthcare, food, waste management and “hope to vulnerable Palestinians”.
Footage shows Israeli bomb striking neighbourhood in Gaza City
Footage on social media has captured an Israeli bomb striking a built-up neighbourhood in Gaza City.
The video, posted to Instagram and verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking unit, shows an enormous explosion caused by the bombing, as the Israeli military continues its ferocious bombardment of the neighbourhoods of Zeitoun and Sabra.
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Israel has begun first stages of its planned assault on Gaza City: Israeli military spokesperson
Israel has entered the first stages of its planned assault on Gaza City after a clash with Hamas and already has a hold on the outskirts of the city, Israeli military spokesman Effie Defrin has told reporters.
An Israeli attack in Jabalia
Palestinians rush for cover as a rocket fired by an Israeli warplane targets a building in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.
Death toll in Gaza rises
Medical sources in Gaza are reporting that 76 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza today.
Medical sources have also told Al Jazeera that 15 aid seekers were killed in the Israeli attack in northern Gaza that we have been reporting on, while 105 others were injured.
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that five Palestinians have been killed and several others wounded in an Israeli air attack targeting civilians in the Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
