Israel bombs UNRWA-run school and makeshift shelter in Gaza City
Israel has attacked a school in the Shati refugee camp that was sheltering displaced Palestinians.
Over 1,800 buildings damaged or destroyed in Gaza City in one month
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Israel expanded operations to Gaza City in early August, destroying buildings with systematic bulldozing and airstrikes. Damage has been concentrated in the Zeitoun and Jabalya neighborhoods, with demolitions increasingly moving toward the center of Gaza City, according to CNN analysis of satellite imagery.
Sources: Planet Labs PBC; CNN analysis of satellite imagery; CNN reporting Graphic: Thomas Bordeaux and Lou Robinson, CNN
The most recent comprehensive UN assessment of damage found that around 78% of buildings in the Gaza Strip had been damaged or destroyed.
Conditions in Gaza’s south getting more ‘desperate by the day’ as thousands arrive from north
Olga Cherevko, spokesperson for the UN’s aid coordination office (OCHA) in Gaza, says the situation in Gaza is becoming increasingly “desperate by the day”.
Speaking from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza, Cherevko told Al Jazeera that tens of thousands of people are now being forcibly displaced to the south of the enclave as Israeli forces step up attacks in northern areas, including Gaza City.
“Many are arriving and are not able to find any space,” she said, adding that many were forced to return to the north. “The conditions here were already extremely overcrowded,” Cherevko said. “If you look at the sea, the tents go all the way to the waterline, and every time the tide rises, [the water] swallows more tents.”
Basic services are also absent, with hospitals overwhelmed and operating at up to 300 percent capacity. While there has been some improvement in the amount of aid entering, conditions on the ground remain dire with UN agencies unable to deliver aid safely and adequately, Cherevko said.
‘No mystery’ why GHF in southern Gaza, whistleblower tells AJ+
Former US army Green Beret Anthony Aguilar, the retired lieutenant colonel who blew the whistle on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in July, has told AJ+ that GHF has been part of the “Gaza Riviera” plan all along.
“There is no mystery as to why the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is only in the south, and they’ve staked their claim in the most valuable real estate in all of Gaza,” he told Dena Takruri.
In the few weeks Aguilar worked for GHF as a contractor, his supervisor told him not to question the Israeli army.
“He said, the [Israeli military] are our client. We work for them,” Aguilar said.
