DEVASTATION
A lot of the densely populated Gaza Strip has been devastated by virtually 4 months of Israeli bombardment, and most of its 2.3 million residents have been uprooted by preventing that has brought on the world’s greatest humanitarian disaster.
Gaza well being authorities mentioned 26,900 Palestinians had been killed – together with 150 over the previous 24 hours – to date within the warfare that was triggered after Hamas fighters stormed into Israeli cities on Oct 7, killing 1,200 and taking 253 hostages.
Israel’s army mentioned its forces had killed at the least 25 Palestinian militants in Gaza previously 24 hours, and that three Israeli troopers had been killed – taking to 224 the variety of troops killed throughout Israel’s floor offensive.
Smoke rose above Gaza Metropolis after the newest air strikes, a few of which focused the headquarters of the Hamas-run inside ministry, Hamas-run media and residents mentioned.
The Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza got here underneath fireplace and tanks pounded areas of Khan Younis round Nasser Hospital, the biggest nonetheless functioning within the south, witnesses mentioned.
Because the well being system deteriorates, Palestinian medics say they’ve fashioned discipline medical factors to assist attain the entrance strains, as treating the wounded in Khan Younis has turn into more and more tough amid avenue battles and artillery strikes.
“There’s a variety of accidents among the many displaced who had been within the industrial quarter and a few colleges,” mentioned Nassim Hassan, the pinnacle of the Emergency Unit at Nasser Hospital, including that “most of the injured left loaded on carts, tuk-tuks, vehicles and even on foot”.
