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05-09-2024
GAZA CITY: Gaza’s Health Ministry says 42 Palestinians were killed and 107 wounded in the latest 24-hour reporting period.
Palestinian children are being vaccinated in Deir el-Balah amid loud explosions in Bureij and Maghazi refugee camps, which were excluded from a humanitarian pause in fighting and the vaccination campaign.
Israeli military’s latest assault across the occupied West Bank is now in its eighth day. At least 33 Palestinians have been killed and 130 wounded since August 28, the vast majority in Jenin.
At least six Palestinians killed in the attack on Namaa College, where people had been sheltering. Dozens more are buried in the rubble.
At least 40,861 people have been killed and 94,398 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7.
An Israeli air raid has struck another home in central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp, killing and injuring numerous people.
It is the second deadly attack on the camp today, with the first killing one person in their home.
As we reported earlier, strikes were heard in Nuseirat and Maghazi areas amid a vaccination drive in nearby Deir el-Balah.
Palestinian reporter Leila Warah says Israel’s latest assault in the occupied West Bank is not a counterterrorism operation as it claims, but an attempt to “fortify the occupation”.
“They want to make their occupation stronger so that in the long run, they can take over the West Bank and turn it into part of the Israeli state, which we’re already seeing,” she told media.
Moreover, she said despite Israel’s military operations to “suppress” Palestinian resistance, it is unlikely to work.
“It just creates more resistance, more people coming forward and resisting … these are very young Palestinian men with very limited resources who are desperate to not be living under occupation,” she added.
Spokesman Osama Hamdan says Hamas has not received any official word on a possible new ceasefire proposal from the US.
He questioned whether Washington’s optimism was genuine or simply geared at a domestic audience ahead of the November elections.
“We don’t need more negotiations,” said Hamdan, accusing the Israeli government of repeatedly sabotaging them.
“I think what we need now is real pressure on Israel from the Americans” to accept the US-backed ceasefire proposal put forward back in May, he said.
The World Health Organization has announced the completion of the first phase of its polio vaccination campaign in central Gaza, having administered first doses to 187,000 children.
This effort exceeded its target of 156,000 children for the area, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in a post.
However, “to ensure no child is missed”, medical teams will continue to offer vaccinations at “four fixed sites” in central Gaza for three more days, he said.
The vaccination campaign will now move to southern Gaza.
As Israel’s war on Gaza prevents the entry of basic needs, resident Sabir Dawwas has come up with a unique solution for residents looking for a pair of shoes.
Dawwas uses fabric and wood to provide people with footwear as the nearly 11-month-long war has left the coastal enclave in ruins. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
