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‘Every essential system has collapsed’ in Gaza City: Humanitarian worker
Al Jazeera spoke with Hamida Jamahah, the country director for humanitarian organisation Plan International, about its challenges navigating new displacement orders and aid restrictions in Gaza.
Jamahah said from Jordan’s capital Amman that “every essential system has collapsed” in Gaza City – from hospitals, to water infrastructure, to education and shelter.
“Children, instead of being in classrooms or playgrounds, are basically fleeing air strikes and being starved to death,” she said.
Jamahah said her organisation is working to deliver life-saving aid via access points in Jordan and Egypt, but restrictions are severely limiting their service.
In addition, local humanitarian workers themselves face the same violence and instability as the people they serve, she noted.
“Whatever applies to the people in Gaza also applies to the humanitarian workers,” she said. “One of our partners lost an additional member of their staff along with her family in an air strike last week.”
Israeli military says ‘continuing to expand operations in Gaza City’
In its latest war update, Israel’s military says it is deepening its offensive in Gaza City, where it claims it has recently killed numerous fighters and destroyed military infrastructure.
Specifically, the military claims to have taken out surveillance equipment used against it and killed fighters who attempted to plant concealed explosives. In addition, the military says naval forces struck a Hamas weapons depot.
As we’ve reported, an Israeli military attack on a home in Nuseirat killed many civilians, including women and children, yesterday.
Leaflets dropped by Israeli forces ordering residents to evacuate fall next to a damaged building in Gaza City, September 29
Gaza’s blood banks face ‘complete shutdown’ amid Israeli attacks, ministry warns
Gaza’s Health Ministry has released a statement, warning that blood banks in hospitals across the Strip face the prospect of a “complete shutdown” as Palestinians are rushed in with injuries sustained in Israeli attacks.
The statement said: “Blood banks in hospitals are threatened with complete shutdown as a result of severe depletion of laboratory supplies necessary for transfusion, testing and storage of blood units and components.”
It added that there were severe shortages of blood too, warning that this was hampering hospitals’ ability to make “life-saving interventions for the wounded”.
Four aid seekers shot dead by Israeli forces near Rafah
Israeli forces have shot dead four people seeking aid near a distribution centre to the north of Rafah city, our colleagues on the ground report, citing Nasser Hospital.
Since the US- and Israel-backed GHF took over aid distribution in Gaza earlier this year, attacks on aid seekers have surged. In total, more than 2,500 people have been killed and 18,700 wounded while seeking aid in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry.
