UN says notion of a safe zone in southern Gaza ‘farcical’
The United Nations has reiterated there are no safe areas for Palestinians ordered to leave Gaza City, and Israel-designated “humanitarian zones” in the south are “places of death”.
“The notion of a safe zone in the south is farcical,” UNICEF spokesman James Elder told reporters in Geneva.
Addressing the catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, he noted, “Bombs are dropped from the sky with chilling predictability; schools, which had been designated as temporary shelters, are regularly reduced to rubble. Tents … are regularly engulfed in fire from air attacks.”
Israeli attack kills 7 people in al-Mawasi
An Israeli attack has killed at least seven people in southern Gaza’s al-Mawasi area, where many displaced Palestinians are fleeing, reports Nasser Hospital.
Meanwhile, an attack in the Ansar area near Gaza City has killed two more people, according to a local ambulance source quoted by our colleagues on the ground.
Situation for mothers and babies ‘has never been worse’ in Gaza
Mothers and newborn babies in Gaza face dire conditions at Nasser Hospital in the south of the war-torn Palestinian enclave, UNICEF says. The main hospital in southern Gaza is overwhelmed with patients fleeing the north, and medical resources are fast running out, it said.
“The situation for mothers and newborns in Gaza has never been worse. In Nasser Hospital, we’re seeing hospital corridors lined with women who’ve just given birth,” spokesperson James Elder told reporters in Geneva.
A baby suffering from malnutrition receives limited treatment at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis
At least 63 killed in Israel’s attacks on Gaza in last 24 hours
According to a statement by the Gaza Health Ministry, 227 others have been injured in Israeli bombing over the past day.
The total death toll in the enclave since October 7, 2023 has risen to 66,288 with 169,165 wounded, the ministry said. The actual number of the dead is likely far higher, with thousands of bodies believed buried under the vast debris of blown-up buildings throughout the Strip.
