What’s happening in Gaza as world leaders meet at UN?
As world leaders are holding a meeting at the UN to discuss a possible two-state solution, Israeli attacks continue to pound the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army has deployed another battalion to Gaza City and is continuing a ground assault to seize the Strip’s largest urban centre.
At least seven people have been killed, and many are wounded, in the central Samer area. Two others were killed in the Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood, and one in a drone strike in the al-Sahaba area.
Israel has issued evacuation threats, telling people to move to the south.
An attack to the west of Gaza City has left several Palestinians wounded as they were preparing their belongings for a forced evacuation from the Shati refugee camp.
WHO says destruction of Gaza clinics will ‘cause more deaths’
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has condemned an Israeli strike on a health facility in Gaza City that he said reduced it “to rubble”.
“Today’s attack on a Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) primary health care centre in Gaza City turned it into rubble,” he said on X.
“Two health workers were reportedly injured. It was among Gaza City’s few functioning facilities, providing blood donation and testing services, trauma care, cancer medications and chronic disease treatment.”
He added that the strike “reportedly came just 30 minutes after a warning to evacuate”
Tedros warned that “the continued destruction of Gaza City’s health facilities will cause more deaths and further overwhelm already overcrowded hospitals in the south”, stressing that “attacks on health facilities must end” and “the senseless violence must stop”.
Israeli army carries out raid of al-Arroub camp in occupied West Bank
Fighting has broken out in al-Arroub refugee camp, north of Hebron, after an Israeli raid.
The camp is located between Bethlehem and Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank, where an Israeli military watchtower stands immediately outside the camp.
Al-Arroub is one of the most frequently targeted camps in the occupied West Bank, with residents regularly subjected to arrests, tear gas, sound bombs and live ammunition, according to the UN.
