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13-09-2024
UNITED NATIONS/ GAZA STRIP: About a quarter of the people wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza – at least 22,000 Palestinians have injuries that are “life-changing”, according to the World Health Organization.
Israel’s military has bombed the United Nations-operated al-Jaouni school in central Gaza for a fifth time since October, killing at least 18 people. Witnesses say “women and children were blown to pieces” in the assault.
Six of the victims were UNRWA staff, including the shelter’s manager. The agency’s chief condemned the “endless and senseless killing” as the number of its staff killed since the start of the war rose to at least 220.
At least 41,118 people have been killed and 95,125 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. In Israel, the number of those killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 is at least 1,139, while more than 200 people were taken captive.
No space ‘for bodies to be buried’
Within the past couple of hours, the surge seems to be taking place in the eastern part of Khan Younis.
In addition to the four who were already killed in the European residential complex, very near the European Gaza Hospital, there are eight more from different locations in the eastern and central part of Khan Younis city.
Here at the hospital, the past few hours have been quite difficult seeing … collapsed parents crying over the bodies of their children and family members.
They have been taken one by one here from the courtyard of the hospital after performing final prayers before taking them to their final resting place, which is a challenge because right now graveyards in the central area are running out of space.
There are no more spaces for bodies to be buried and what people have been resorting to is opening an already closed grave and burying people on top of each other because there is simply no space left.
UN chief Antonio Guterres and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell have condemned the Israeli strike on a UN-run school in Nuseirat that killed at least 18 people, including six UNRWA staff. Strikes have been reported across Gaza in areas including Rafah, Khan Younis and Jabalia.
Israeli forces have detained 40 Palestinians in raids throughout the occupied West Bank since last night, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society.
The World Health Organization says about a quarter of the people wounded in Gaza during Israel’s war more than 22,000 people have injuries that are “life-changing”.
Turkey says it will conduct its own investigation into the killing of US-Turkish activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygiin the occupied West Bank. A Washington Post investigation has cast doubt on Israel’s claim that the shooting was “unintentional.”
WHO optimistic about hitting vaccine target
The World Health Organization (WHO) is “confident” that its polio vaccination campaign in Gaza has reached its target, administering vaccines to more than 90 percent of children under the age of 10.
“We are confident that we probably reached the target,” Rik Peeperkorn, the WHO’s representative for the Palestinian territories, said on the last day of the campaign’s first phase, which delivers the first of two doses. Healthcare workers are focusing today’s efforts in northern Gaza.
As of yesterday, the polio vaccination drive had already reached at least 530,000 children, according to the UNRWA, of its goal of 640,000.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society says Israeli forces are blocking its emergency medics from entering Tulkarem to rush people to the hospital “despite prior coordination”. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
