At least 25 Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza since morning
Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 25 Palestinians since dawn, according to medical sources at Gaza hospitals speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
Among those killed are three children, who were killed in an Israeli shelling on a tent at Jalaa Street, west of Gaza City.
Palestinians inspect the site of an overnight Israeli strike on a tent, in Gaza City, on August 22
Baby starves to death in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis
A baby has died of malnutrition in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, a source at the city’s Nasser Medical complex has told our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said yesterday that 271 Palestinians, including 112 children, have died of malnutrition in the enclave since October 7, 2023. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees has said child malnutrition had tripled across Gaza in less than six months.
Israeli strike wounds several in southern Gaza: Emergency services
The Gaza Emergency and Ambulance Authority says an unspecified number of Palestinians were injured in an Israeli drone strike on tents for displaced people and a water station, northwest of Khan Younis.
Meanwhile, our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that the Israeli army is also attacking residential buildings in the southern Gaza city.
Palestinians inspect the damage at the site of an Israeli strike on a tent sheltering displaced people, in Khan Younis, the southern Gaza Strip
Death toll from Israeli strike on school housing displaced Palestinians rises to 12
We reported earlier that an Israeli strike on a school housing displaced people in Gaza City’s northwestern Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood had killed five people.
Emergency services in Gaza are now saying that the death toll from the attack has risen to 12.
Two more Palestinians killed in northern Gaza
One person has been killed by Israeli forces in the Tuffah neighbourhood in Gaza City, according to a medical source at al-Ahli Hospital speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic.
Meanwhile, another Palestinian has been killed and others injured after the Israeli army struck the Jabalia al-Balad area, a source at al-Shifa Hospital said.
Ambulances blocked from reaching injured in several Gaza City neighbourhoods
Mohammed Abu Afash, the director of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society, a medical charity in Gaza, has spoken to Al Jazeera Arabic about the dire situation facing the healthcare system in the coastal enclave.
Here are his translated comments:
- Ambulances were unable to reach the martyrs and wounded in the Sabra and Zeitoun neighbourhoods.
- Most of the injuries that arrive at hospitals are serious.
- Without international intervention, Gaza City will witness a massive displacement.
Israeli forces shoot aid seeker dead in central Gaza: Hospital sources
At least one Palestinian aid seeker has been killed and others injured as result of an Israeli shooting near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, according to medical sources at northern Gaza’s al-Awda Hospital speaking to Al Jazeera Arabic.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, the total number of aid seekers killed since May 27, when Israel introduced a new aid distribution mechanism through the US and Israeli-based GHF, has reached at least 2,036.
Woman, 4 children killed in Israeli attack on southern Gaza: Medical sources
An Israeli drone strike on a makeshift tent in Khan Younis has killed one woman and four children, sources at the Nasser Medical Complex say, according to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
Daily death toll in Gaza rises to 47
Israeli attacks have killed 47 Palestinians in Gaza since dawn, sources in the territory’s hospitals tell Al Jazeera. The sources said 31 of the killings were in Gaza City, which is under heavy attack as the Israeli military pushes ahead with an operation to seize Gaza’s largest urban centre. At least five of the victims were seeking aid, the sources said.
At least 71 Palestinians, including 24 aid seekers, have been killed and 251 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the latest 24-hour reporting period, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry.
